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Zipcar Charging Station in San Francisco, California. Shared transport or shared mobility is a transportation system where travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously as a group (e.g. ride-sharing) or over time (e.g. carsharing or bike sharing) as personal rental, and in the process share the cost of the journey.
Peer-to-peer carsharing is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption, as part of the sharing economy. [1] The business model is closely aligned with traditional car clubs such as Streetcar or Zipcar (est. in 2000), [2] but replaces a typical fleet with a ‘virtual’ fleet made up of vehicles from participating owners. [3]
A Lyft vehicle in Santa Monica, California, with the original grill-stache branding, since retired. Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by computer programmers Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a long-distance intercity carpooling company focused on college transport that they founded in 2007 after Green shared rides from the University of California, Santa Barbara ...
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PHOTO: Matt Houlihan and his siblings, Kelsey Houlihan Ford and Brian Houlihan, surprised their father, Tim Houlihan, on his last day of work with one last shared carpool ride. (Matt Houlihan)
In the 1990s, carpooling was popular among college students, where campuses have limited parking space. The feasibility of further development of carpooling was investigated although the comprehensive technologies were not commercially available yet at the time. [13] [14] Ridesharing programs began migrating to the Internet in the late 1990s. [14]
During nights and weekends, he began working on creating a concept to address the issue. In 2006, he bought a website called Covoiturage.fr, French for "carpooling", created in 2004. [6] [7] By September 2008, it was the largest carpool website in France. [7] In June 2011, it introduced BlaBlaCar.com in the United Kingdom. [8]
A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis. Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Carpooling is considered a Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service. [1]