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Title: Carsharing and the Built Environment: Geographic Information System–Based Study of One U.S. Operator
Accession Number: 01127372
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: A geographic information system–based multivariate regression study of an urban U.S. carsharing operator compared the use of carsharing vehicles for 16 months in 2006 and 2007 to built-environment and demographic factors. Carsharing is a relatively new transportation industry in which companies provide members with short-term vehicle access from distributed neighborhood locations. The number of registered carsharing members in North America has doubled every year or two to a current level of approximately 320,000. Researchers have long supposed that public transit access is a key factor driving demand for carsharing. The results of the study, however, find an ambiguous relationship between the activity at carsharing locations and public transit access. Light rail availability is found to have a significant and positive relationship to carsharing demand. Regional rail availability is found to be weakly and negatively associated with carsharing demand, although limitations in the available data make it impossible to ascribe the observed difference to user demand, random variation, or other factors specific to the industry.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01145890
Report/Paper Numbers: 09-2963
Language: English
Authors: Stillwater, TaiMokhtarian, Patricia LShaheen, Susan APagination: pp 27-34
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780309126267
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 30 2009 7:20PM
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