Challenges and Opportunities for Publicly-Funded Electric Car Sharing Programs

Round-trip car-sharing has been in existence for nearly two decades in the United States. Members commonly use car-sharing services to accomplish several errands via “trip chaining” in or out of town for a few hours at a time. Most car-sharing services in the U.S. are for-profit enterprises (e.g., Zipcar) and are typically located in major cities with high-quality transit options. However, there is an increasing number of publicly-funded electric car-sharing programs built around the needs of low to moderate income households. These services are typically housed in affordable housing complexes, located in smaller or rural cities, and subsidized. The white paper will identify current and former publicly-funded EV car-sharing programs (within the last few years) and conduct expert interviews and collect documentation on the programs in order to provide case studies on the lessons learned with respect to the investments, economies of scale, institutional arrangements, and sustainability of the programs.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/challenges-and-opportunities-publicly-funded-electric-car-sharing-programs

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $39156
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Rodier, Caroline

  Randall, Creighton

• Start Date: 20191001
• Expected Completion Date: 20200930
• Actual Completion Date: 20220208
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Electric vehicles; Investments; Lessons learned; Low income groups; Shared mobility; Sustainable transportation; Vehicle sharing
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01712001
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 22 2019 4:35PM