caa a22 4500 445890819 CHVBK 20180317145615.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11116-010-9304-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11116-010-9304-y Duncan Michael Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., 28223, Charlotte, NC, USA aut The cost saving potential of carsharing in a US context [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Duncan] Carsharing is a vehicle sharing service for those with occasional need of private transportation. Transportation planners are beginning to see great potential for carsharing in helping to create a more diversified and sustainable transport system. While it has grown quickly in the US in recent years, it is still far from the level where it can deliver significant aggregate benefits. A key element to the potential growth of carsharing is its ability to provide cost savings to those who adopt it in favor of vehicle ownership. This research seeks to quantify these potential cost savings. The costs of carsharing and vehicle ownership are compared based on actual vehicle usage patterns from a large survey of San Francisco Bay Area residents. The results of this analysis show that a significant minority of Bay Area households own a vehicle with a usage pattern that carsharing could accommodate at a lower cost. Further research is required to indentify how these cost savings translate to the adoption of carsharing. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2010 Carsharing nationallicence Travel behavior nationallicence Vehicle usage patterns nationallicence VKT nationallicence Sustainability nationallicence Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/2(2011-03-01), 363-382 0049-4488 38:2<363 2011 38 11116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-010-9304-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-010-9304-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Duncan Michael Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., 28223, Charlotte, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transportation Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/2(2011-03-01), 363-382 0049-4488 38:2<363 2011 38 11116 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer