[sustran] Re: Is carsharing irrelevant for the Global South?

[Lloyd Wright]

Of course, if a driver takes you to work and then returns to the trip origin
to park, one has effectively doubled the kilometers for every trip...and
doubled the emissions. 

This by the way is the same problem when there is no scholar transport and
each parent individually takes their child to school.  A single trip purpose
requires double the distance. 

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[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+lwright=vivacities.org at list.jca.apc.org] On
Behalf Of Cornie Huizenga
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 19:13
To: Madhav Pai
Cc: Sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org
Subject: [sustran] Re: Is carsharing irrelevant for the Global South?

Dear All,

For the last 13 years I have lived in Asia without owning a car.

Fir 10 years in Manila I did what Madhav described - take a car with driver
so that you don't have problems with parking.  One reason for taking car
with driver  was that taxis were unreliable. I am certain that in this
manner I avoided a lot of kilometers compared to having a car myself.

Cornie

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Madhav Pai <MPai at wri.org> wrote:

> A form of car sharing in India very prevalent.
>
> In most cities you can rent a car/with a driver (half day:4 hours), full
> day: 8-12 hours, few days even a few months). The cars are available in
> all sizes small sedans to mini vans. The rates are pretty much fixed
> across the country. It usually starts at 4 Hours, 40 Kms is 400 Rs (10
> USD) for a low small sedan.
>
> Car ownership may vary between from one car (owner/driver) to a few
> thousand cars.
> There is also an increasing number of fleet managers. That take these
> cars from individual owners/drivers, use technology elements (GPS
> tracking), call center etc and make them available to offices/companies.
>
>
> Would you call this car sharing?
>
> It would be interesting to study if the availability of these cars
> - prevent people from buying cars
> - do they end up buying smaller cars for city use and renting these
> bigger cars for long trips
> - what percentage of car use in our cities are these shared cars?
> - if one these large companies could transform themselves into
> membership based car sharing entities.
>
>
> Sincerely;
> Madhav Pai
> Technical Director
> EMBARQ - India
>