A case in the field of mobility and transport: the Autolib’ car-sharing platform
Résumé
Vehicle sharing exists at the intersection between private cars and
public transport. Such initiatives have multiplied over the last decade
with growing citizen participation (Firnkorn and Shaheen 2016;
Drut 2018; 6t-bureau de recherche 2019). Degrowth calls for more
collective property and sharing (Jarvis 2019). Vehicle sharing offers
the potential of wider processes of social-ecological transformation,
propelled by two drivers of change. First, sharing vehicles means
fewer vehicles will be needed in the economy to meet the same
level of needs. The second lever is the demotorisation that it causes.
Estimates of several case studies throughout Europe and Canada
highlight a decrease in the distance travelled by drivers enrolled in
a car-sharing system from 11 to 50% (Sioui et al. 2013, Meijkamp
2000). This chapter analyses to what extent the experience of the
Autolib’ platform, a one-way station-based car-sharing system38 in
Paris, can be a potential strategy towards degrowth. As such, the case
study is necessarily limited to a Western context.
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