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What is Car-Sharing

Chapter 19
Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior
App-based and point to point station-based systems (e.g., Cambio); free-floating car sharing such as Car2Go or Zen Car (using only electric cars).
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Automotive Sector Moving Towards Mobility Companies: The New Mobility Landscape
Marlene Almeida (ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3115-0.ch019
Abstract
The global automotive industry is both vast in its complexity and vital to the lifestyles of many residents in the industrialized world. Cars not only make transportation easier, but are associated with a sense of freedom and economic accomplishment. A better understanding of people's lifestyles, values, and mobility needs has led the automakers to redefine their long-term strategies as a base to a new development of products/services to support the new mobility. This chapter highlights the challenges and the main disrupting factors for the automotive sector to move towards mobility companies. This chapter gives a close look to understand how the industry has been influenced by different trends in an evolving society and what technologies have been playing a key role for the future mobility companies. Case studies of leading companies are given as examples for a future vision. This chapter is addressed to academics and professionals interested in mobility and in understanding how automotive sector landscapes are changing in a changing society.
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Chapter 10
Electric Car-Sharing as a Solution Supporting the Development of Electromobility and an Element of the Travel Chain
Carsharing, car sharing (in AU, NZ, CA, TH, US), or car clubs (in: UK) is a model of short-time car rental where people rent cars often by the minutes. Cars-sharing gives the opportunity to drive individual car without owning it. Carsharing is part of shared mobility concept. Carsharing enables an occasional use of a vehicle or access to different brands and models of vehicles – from small urban cars to vans and premium vehicles. The renting organization may be a commercial business. Users can also organize as a company, public agency, cooperative or grouping with using internet platforms.
Published in Chapter: Electric Car-Sharing as a Solution Supporting the Development of Electromobility and an Element of the Travel Chain; From: Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Decision Making for Sustainable Supply Chains
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