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Zipcar Gets Some Competition
August 4, 2009 – 12:02 pm | No Comment

Zipcar Gets Some Competition

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Via Eric Britton’s World Streets, Dave Brooks is writing about the new wave of carsharing businesses that are entering the market. Depending on your perspective, the companies coming onto the market are either completely …

Bikes of Burden and the Effect of Wealth on Transportation Choices
July 17, 2009 – 4:11 pm | No Comment

Bikes of Burden and the Effect of Wealth on Transportation Choices

I want to add to my point earlier today about the need to differentiate between modal shifts that are happening as a result of the economy and modal shifts that are happening as a result …

Does the Recession Make Us Want To Share Or Just to Save?
July 17, 2009 – 11:05 am | One Comment

Does the Recession Make Us Want To Share Or Just to Save?

It’s always exciting to see a colleague’s picture in the newspaper. Fellow EMBARQer Chris Ganson made it onto the Washington Post’s cover for riding SmartBike! Very cool.
The article looked at how the recession has made …

FastFleet Follow-up: Small Innovation, Big Impact
April 29, 2009 – 9:41 am | No Comment

FastFleet Follow-up: Small Innovation, Big Impact

In response to yesterday’s post about Zipcar’s launch of FastFleet, a municipal fleet management service, Clayton Lane, the chief operating officer of EMBARQ and co-founder of PhillyCarShare, shares his opinion about what’s new and …

Sharing Cars and Saving Cash: Zipcar Brings FastFleet to Government Sector
April 28, 2009 – 5:43 pm | 2 Comments

Sharing Cars and Saving Cash: Zipcar Brings FastFleet to Government Sector

The latest car-sharing model to hit the streets could save millions of taxpayer dollars, reduce pollution, and make it easier to beat the morning commute.
The one-of-a-kind service is called FastFleet, a new fleet management system …