[sustran] Information on ridesharing (pooling) programs - and shared bicycles

[eric.britton at ecoplan.org]

>From @World CarSharing:

Denys Roulin, organizer of last week's Swiss referendum calling for a 50%
reduction in traffic over the next ten years (see The Politics of
Sustainability at http://www.ecoplan.org/politics or www.actif-trafic.ch for
more on this), has submitted the URL for a 'covoiturage' (ridesharing)
program in Switzerland, which you can catch at either
http://www.covoiturage.span.ch/ or via our Links button on our menu.  This
brings up an old matter which we have deal with here from time to time, and
of which you will see some early traces in the 1998 Carshare Compendium on
this site.

For various reasons (one of them being technology overlap), we have decided
to extend at least one corner of the @World Carshare site to offer some
hospitality to these sister services, which you can now begin to access if
you click Links & Media on our menu and from there the appropriate category.
You will note that there are two groups, one given over to more conventional
or 'ORGANIZED RIDESHARING' services, the second to 'DYNAMIC RIDESHARING' or
hitchhiking.

While we are at it, we also intend to expand this general information
section of the site to include SHARED CYCLE projects, which are gaining
considerable force of late and which have a lot in common with carsharing as
most of us know it. (And who says that the same organization cannot handle
both?).

If you have ideas or candidates for us on any or all of this, it would be
most appreciated if you might share them with us all.  May I ask you to
address your notes on this to me directly, so that we can avoid information
overload. We'll try to handle this in an economic, non-disturbing way for
our busy members, and at the same time try to acknowledge our sources and
contributors.

Let's keep sharing,

Eric Britton

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