Mobility and environmental impacts of car sharing in the Netherlands

Nijland, Hans; Meerkerk, Jordy van

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2017.02.001

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“…So far, the indicative results on the sustainability effects of peer-to-peer carsharing support this argument by showing minor behavioral changes in terms of the number of kilometers driven with a car [19,23]. This stands in contrast to the older business-to-consumer (B2C) carsharing services, whose effects on mobility behavior have been demonstrated in many studies; joining a carsharing scheme significantly reduces the mileage driven with private cars and the carbon footprints of the users [41,42]. This difference might be due to the fact that many of the B2C services are designed in a way that makes them replacements for private cars [43].…”

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Online and Offline Communities in the Sharing Economy

Vaskelainen

Piscicelli

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The online community is crucial to sharing economy platforms because without it, no transactions can take place. Online communities have been studied extensively, but so far, little attention has been paid to how they link to different offline communities, such as geographic (e.g., neighborhoods) and relational communities (e.g., friends and colleagues). In this study, we address this gap by examining the importance of communities to the users and the entrepreneurs of the goods-sharing platform Ecomodo. We conduct a qualitative content analysis of archival and interview data to uncover the importance of different communities and the relationships among them. We discover that the platform design aimed to facilitate lending and borrowing in relational communities. However, geographic communities were more important to the users since most of them joined the platform to be acquainted with their neighbors. We also find that the platform entrepreneurs underestimated the behavioral changes needed to use the platform. The producers were not used to asking for money to lend their possessions, and it was difficult to teach consumers to borrow instead of buying. We use these findings to offer recommendations to practitioners and discuss some avenues for further research.

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Online and Offline Communities in the Sharing Economy

Vaskelainen

Piscicelli

2018

Sustainability

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“…Sharing is thought to be eco-friendly because it is assumed to reduce the demand for new goods or the construction of new facilities (in the case of hotels or shared spaces). Despite these widespread beliefs, there is not yet empirical evidence on these claims, apart from car sharing where substantial reductions in CO 2 -emissions are realized (Chen and Kockelman 2015;Nijland and Van Meerkerk 2017). For ride-sourcing services (for example, Uber), however, there is evidence that it often substitutes for public transport and does not decrease congestion (Jin et al 2018).…”

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Putting the sharing economy into perspective

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2019

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

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“…In the German context Loose (2016) calculates that one carsharing car situated in a city center replaces up to 20 private cars and that carsharing users reduced their car ownership by 62%. A Dutch survey study (Nijland and van Meerkerk 2017) on carsharing users finds a 15-20% reduction in car kilometers driven and car ownership to shrink from 1.12 to 0.72 cars per household after joining carsharing. Chen and Kockelman (2016) calculate the lifecycle impacts of carsharing on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and also find positive impacts.…”

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Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

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Boon

Frenken

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Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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Carsharing provides an alternative to private car ownership by allowing car use temporarily on an on-demand basis. Operators provide carsharing services using different business models and ownership structures. We distinguish between cooperative, business-to-consumer (B2C) roundtrip and one-way, as well as peer-topeer (P2P) carsharing. This paper characterizes these different types of business models and compares their success in terms of diffusion using a comprehensive database of all 101 German carsharing providers in 2016. The key result holds that fleet size is significantly different across business models ranging from a few cars (cooperatives in small towns), to a few hundred (B2C roundtrip in larger cities), to over a thousand (B2C one-way in largest cities), up to multiple thousands (P2P across the country). By analyzing for each operator the number of cars per capita in the city they operate in, we do not find significant differences across business models indicating the viability of each separate business model type. Hence, we conclude that business models will continue to co-exist for a while, although some of the business models may well converge in the longer run due to Internet-ofThings applications and the introduction of self-driving cars.

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Mobility and environmental impacts of car sharing in the Netherlands

Cited by 247 publications

References 15 publications

Online and Offline Communities in the Sharing Economy

Online and Offline Communities in the Sharing Economy

Putting the sharing economy into perspective

Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

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