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- verb Present participle of
carshare .
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Examples
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Therefore, in the aggregate the effect of carsharing is to reduce the cost of driving compared to the cost of using transit.
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The aggregate effect of carsharing is to lower the cost of driving in comparison to the cost of riding transit.
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Currently, carsharing is not conceived along the lines as a wireless service.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Radiocar: Killer App for Mobile Net? 2003
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The more efficient carsharing gets, the more it shifts the incentives towards driving and away from using transit.
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So, you are just supporting my point here: carsharing in turn limits the implications of your fixed cost problem, potentially allowing transit to penetrate wherever it makes sense.
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The ultimate form of carsharing would be a municipal autonomous taxi system, which would probably put conventional transit out of business altogether. anders Says:
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Whatever increase in transit use carsharing would induce via reduced rates of car ownership would be exceeded by the decrease in transit use carsharing would induce through increased driving by non-owners.
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It is this aggregate effect of carsharing on costs that governs its aggregate effect on demand for driving vs. transit, regardless of its effects on demand by particular individuals.
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What is this good argument I have supposedly given that carsharing would not produce a net reduction in transit use?
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His attitude actually jibes perfectly with the movements toward shared libraries of stuff, like carsharing, bikesharing or toolsharing. (see article Inconspicuous Consumption).
Kirsten Dirksen: The Burden of Stuff: Why Less Could Make You Happier (VIDEO) 2010
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