In this report, the short-term travel-behavior impacts of carsharing in the city of San Francisco are evaluated. San Francisco's program, City CarShare, was launched in early March 2001 and has steadily gained popularity as more and more residents as well as non-residents have voluntarily joined...

Some nine months into the introduction of car-sharing in the City of San Francisco, an estimated 7 percent of members' trips were by City CarShare vehicles, up from around 2 percent just six months earlier. At the nine-month mark, more than 20 percent of members' vehicle miles traveled (VMT) was...

Two years into the introduction of carsharing in San Francisco, nearly 30 percent of members have gotten rid of one more cars and two-thirds stated they opted not to purchase another car. By City CarShare's second anniversary, 6.5 percent of members' trips and 10 percent of their vehicle miles...

The urban transportation sector's environmental, economic, and social footprint is immense and expanding. Many of the world's most vexing and pressing problems - fossil fuel dependency, global warming, poverty, and social exclusion - are inextricably tied to the transportation sector. Much of...