The Study of Car-sharing and Demand Estimation

Mobility Management consists of various soft policies and programs that change travel behavior and demend in order to improving travel options and reducing automobiles use. Because of the idea, car-sharing, an automobile rental service intended to substitute for private vehicle ownership, becomes a more efficient travel demand oriented way to considering the issue of car ownership and present mobility gap. ince there has been the high car ownership and lack of urban space inTaiwan, the research has illustrated this kind of travel option with the major development of Europe, North America and Asia and the facing problems to give a outline of car-sharing. In terms of global research, the successful keypoints of the sustainable operating of car-sharing including proper costs and financial operating, parking area gaining, great partnership, and continous monitoring by systematized performance evaluation.ccording to the stated preference questionnaire research to both Neihu Technology Park and the nearby residential area, the research had attained preliminary user characteristics and demands of business and residential market segment. By multinominal logit model analysis, the research had displayed that there are positive relationship between three variables and car-sharing: female, personal car owners and car users not willing to give up car ownership.