Via an email from Susan Shaheen we learn:
- As of January 2007, 18 U.S. carsharing programs claimed 134,094 members sharing 3,637 vehicles, and
- As of January 2007, 21,817 members shared 994 vehicles among 13 carsharing organizations in Canada.
Dr. Shaheen is the Project Leader at Innovative Mobility Research, UCB. It would be nice to see time series data to have a better sense of this trend, but anecdotally carsharing has increased rapidly. When I became interested in 2000 there were fewer than 5 carsharing organizations, and I think it was closer to 1 or 2. At any rate, there's been considerable growth. See IMR's website for more info on carsharing.
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