Accessing cars: different ownership and use choices

This report examines a range of alternative ways to access cars other than by households simply owning and using their own vehicles - including renting vehicles, getting a lift and taking a taxi. Some or all of these alternative car options potentially offer a number of benefits for sustainable transport policy, such as: 1. moving people away from habitual car use, and increasing the incentive for people to consider car use in conjunction with other modes; 2. improving social inclusion by providing greater choice to those without access to a car; 3. increasing choice and flexibility by providing people with occasional access to cars (or to second cars) on a cheaper basis than personal ownership, which brings particular benefits in areas which have few other options or parking scarcity; 4. encouraging more efficient use of road space and/or parking land by reducing the space needed for cars, yielding benefits such as reduced congestion and improved streetscape in urban areas, and helping to improve quality of life; 5. both directly and indirectly facilitating the take-up of electric vehicles and other new vehicle technologies; 6. enabling people to become non-car-owners, to remain as non-car-owners for longer, or to reduce the number of cars in their household; 7. encouraging or enabling people to own or use smaller or cleaner cars where larger, more fuel consumptive ones are not needed; 8. providing improved access to rail for longer journeys; 9. reducing the resources consumed, or the emissions created, by transport; 10. offering relatively popular and cost-efficient alternatives to mainstream car use.

• Record URL:
  http://www.liftshare.com/business/pdfs/RAC_142.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  RAC Foundation

  London,   United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • Cairns, S
• Publication Date: 2011-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 84p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobile ownership; Ridesharing; Sustainable transportation; Taxi services; Travel behavior; Vehicle sharing
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ATRI Terms: Accessibility; Car pooling; Car sharing; Sustainable transport; Taxi; Travel behaviour; Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01381007
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 11:34AM