<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01CA15BC.81306D70"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="cid:editdata.mso">  <link rel=themeData href="~~themedata~~"> <link rel=colorSchemeMapping href="~~colorschememapping~~">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><![if !vml]><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/Sngg8clxmtI/AAAAAAAABVs/5NmafYXpafs/s1600-h/ws-pic-plc.jpg"><img border=0 width=96 height=128 src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/Sngg8clxmtI/AAAAAAAABVs/5NmafYXpafs/s200/ws-pic-plc.jpg" align=right hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"></a><![endif]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span style='color:#102640;mso-no-proof:yes'><img width=137 height=49 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image002.png@01CA15B9.48B0F490"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div id=ygrp-mlmsg> <div id=ygrp-msg> <div id=ygrp-text> <p>Just back from the USA and have put together a few ideas for our friends at DOT and other agencies and groups in the States who seem to be struggling with these issues. Europe in all its rich diversity definitely has a few lessons of hard-earned experience that need to be examined by US policy makers and researchers more closely. Let's have a look at a first handful that come to mind.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>- Philippe Crist, Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#102640'>--> The full text of this article appears in </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2009/08/carsharing-in-us-quo-vadis-hertz.html">World Streets</a> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#102640'>today at <a href="http://WorldStreets.org/">http://WorldStreets.org/</a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#102640'>--> To read all </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><a href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2009/08/carsharing-in-us-quo-vadis-hertz.html">World Streets</a> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#102640'>articles on politics <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>click to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ws-politics">http://tinyurl.com/ws-politics</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:#102640'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#102640'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:#102640'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>--<br> Posted By Eric Britton to <a href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2009/08/letter-to-america-some-lessons-from.html">World Streets</a> at 8/05/2009 06:53:00 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; color:#102640'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:white'>__._,_.___</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#102640;mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=704 height=48 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CA15AF.A2F18DC0"></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>