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ClimateQuiet 5d · day 5

Car-share schemes cut costs and emissions for occasional drivers

Australian research shows shared vehicles reduce household transport costs and carbon footprints when they replace private car ownership.

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What to know

  • Car sharing replaces the ownership question with an access question, lowering household transport costs and emissions when it enables people to own fewer vehicles.
  • Australian research indicates each shared car removes up to nine privately owned vehicles from roads and cuts member car use by 50%.
  • Services like Flexicar, GoGet, and Kinto are available in major Australian cities, with daily or hourly rental rates covering fuel, charging, and maintenance costs.

“On average, each vehicle is hired somewhere between once every two days and once every three days. The exception to that is vans. Where they've got vans, those vans are usually busier – about twice as busy as cars.”

Elliot Fishman, Director, Institute for Sensible Transport · The Guardian ↗ · Sep 18

Hussein Dia Professor of transport technology and sustainability, Swinburne UniversityElliot Fishman Director, Institute for Sensible TransportJennifer Kent Associate Professor

Car-share schemes cut costs and emissions for occasional drivers
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  1. background

    Research shows shared vehicles reduce private car ownership — The article cites data indicating car-sharing enables households to own fewer vehicles. Melbourne estimates each shared car removes up to nine privately owned vehicles from roads and reduces member car use by 50%. Average trip length is 18 hours or more, showing most people hire for full days or longer.

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    Guardian publishes car-sharing cost-and-emissions analysis

    The Guardian's "Change by degrees" sustainability column examines how car-sharing services in Australian cities offer financial and environmental benefits. The article notes Australians spend about 15% of household income on transport, and that transport is Australia's second-largest emissions source, with cars comprising about half of the average household's carbon footprint.

    “Perhaps the simplest way of thinking about it is that car sharing changes the question from Do I need to own a car? to Do I need access to a car?”
    — Hussein Dia, professor of transport technology and sustainability, Swinburne University
    1. 1 outlet When sharing is caring: how car share schemes cut costs and emissions

      first by The Guardian, 4d ago