Car Sharing
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When It Comes to Surge Pricing, Who Benefits — You or Uber?
When you want a car from Uber, but see surge pricing, how likely are you to take the ride anyway? Uber knows what you are likely to do — and how much you’ll be willing to pay. Sep 8, 2016
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Report: Social Media Contributing to Decline in Car Ownership
A new report by U.S PIRG is linking a decline in car ownership among young people to smart-phone enabled sharing services, like car sharing and bike sharing. Young people are getting... Oct 1, 2013
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Why Enterprise Bought Ride Share Upstart Zimride
The rental car company Enterprise continues to expand into car and ride sharing through acquisition. This time, the industry giant picked up five year-old Zimride that helps people ca... Jul 15, 2013
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Ride Sharing Creates Turmoil In Seattle
In the Seattle area, some cars are driving around with oversized, hot pink moustaches on their front grills. The prop signals an increase in ride sharing. But for some companies and c... Jun 10, 2013
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Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Is National as of Today
(Screen grab from RelayRides) Until today, if you wanted to rent out your car for the hour, you had to do it on your own. Not so easy to create that market, especially in smaller town... Mar 5, 2012
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Why Do Some Cities Get Car Shares and Others Not? The Answer...
(Photo (cc) by Flickr user davereid2) Miami Beach has claimed the crown of first Florida city to launch a car sharing program. Hertz On Demand will begin operations there on January 2... Jan 30, 2012
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As Car Sharing Grows, Carmakers See an Opportunity
(Photo (cc) by Flickr user moon_child) Listen to an alternate version of this story from Marketplace: New Yorkers are taking to car sharing. New York's two smaller car share companie... Oct 15, 2011
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TN Moving Stories: Dynamic Pricing Comes To SF Parking and Amtrak Wants $ To Plan New Hudson River Tunnels
Cuts to the education budget led one Colorado school district to eliminate school buses; parents say more people are driving their kids to school -- and causing more traffic. (NPR, D... Apr 5, 2011
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WEDNESDAY: Personal Car-Sharing on the Takeaway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randychiu/3503567616/sizes/m/in/photostream/ When you really think about it, you probably don't use your car all that much. You drive to work – then leav... Mar 31, 2011
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NYC Gov't Moving from Company Cars to Company Carshare, Joins Washington, Philadelphia
(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a hopeful pilot program Tuesday to reduce the amount of cars, traffic and pollution caused by mu... Oct 12, 2010