Shared Car Use - Car Club
Car sharing can take two major forms through a car club or through a formal/informal car-share scheme.
Benefits of shared car use:
- Reduced grey fleet mileage, cost and emissions.
- Encourage more sustainable travel behaviour and accelerate modal shifts, especially if used in tandem with active travel.
- It may also help ease parking problems at sites where spaces are limited or expensive.
How does a car club work? Community car sharing
Case study: Highland Council
A lack of public transport options meant that staff often used personal vehicles for business.
Highland Council introduced a car club through Enterprise to combat this, deploying 60 vehicles across 21 sites in 2018.
This reduced the council’s grey fleet mileage by over 800,000 miles in the car club’s first year of operation. Since 2018, this has saved Highland Council £900,000 on travel costs and reduced CO2e emissions by 649 tonnes (37%).