The issue raised by Roger is more complex than whether or not distance is "bundled" with time. At Vrtucar, we have set the rates so that our revenues are about...
Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 2, 2005 6:19 am
2075
Essentially, we are all potential customers, since the benefits to be derived through this approach are shared/distributed to all members of the human family....
Hello all, I'd like to get an idea of what the "average member trip" is in your city (that is, average of all your members or "active members", however you...
Nic et al I suspect the incentive to keep adding inactive users to the CSO's in the US has something to do with their registration cost. I'm pretty sure I've ...
In an odd twist to the various discussions on the price list variance presented and opposed here -- TransLink and the City of Vancouver has just made a formal...
Tracey, et al., Please see my comments and questions below. Please keep in mind I am not an advocate for hourly-only pricing, but feel that it is a business...
This is an interesting discussion about pricing impacts, and I'm really enjoying the speculation. But I think it's important to recognize it as such. We can...
Interesting, but if people have enough money; they don't care enough about the costs of each trip to change their habits. Our main concept is having available...
It is interesting that only the time+distance and the time-only rates are being discussed here. Although I cannot see any of us offering a distance-only plan,...
Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 6, 2005 6:57 am
2083
I absolutely agree with Chris in this. In addition, hourly rates can vary within a day to balance offer and demand in different time of day. The hourly rates...
... This is an example of something I keep reminding myself about - while the system Chris describes is certainly elegant and fair (and is the one I prefer),...
http://carsharingus.blogspot.com/2005/05/new-detroit-carsharing- service-uses.html Detroit is the latest city to add carsharing, and there are several ...
... If you mean the overhead for the cars, I wouldn't agree. As proposed, those fixed costs should be covered by the time charges alone. In a sense, the user...
Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 9, 2005 8:20 am
2087
The less the average renting interval is the more important role a variable time-of-day pricing plays. This is not only from the point of view of a company. An...
Carsharing is a critical subset of the New Mobility Agenda. And the most advanced project on the screen to make it work is, quite possibly, the Kyoto World...
As per the message sent to the group earlier today, our friends in the city of Nantes are in the process of laying the base for a new carsharing project in...
We are asked quite often by new start-ups, CSOs rethinking their operations and both government and private sector organizations considering some form of...
From their website at http://www.urbigo.co.uk/ Urbigo is a UK car-sharing scheme for members that pay a monthly subscription fee to cover the cost of car hire...
Dear World Carsharers, As you may have noticed this is one of the occasional flurries of activity that you see here from time to time around here as we attempt...
A quick apology to start with. I really do not like to post more than 2x week max, but as I was cleaning up the Carshare News section and links this morning, I...
To: All of us who are English language mother tongue and write to this forum (me included) Topic: Communicating to a diversified international audience Dear...
http://carsharing.us North American CSOs use a variety of pricing strategies - some in the classic European system of Time + Distance, some hourly-only with ...
Dear Friends, This is to let you know that we are in the process of pumping some life and content into the eForum for the French carsharing site that we set up...
Dear Friends, This is to let you know that we are in the process of pumping some life and content into the eForum for the French carsharing site that we set up...
Dear World Carsharers, I still don’t understand why this forum puts so small emphasis on technological aspects of carsharing. These aspects are at least as...
Since Eric probably won't post this, I will - Eric is interviewed by online magazine Grist. Who would have guessed he grew up in Mississippi and lifts...
