One thousand cities where you can carshare this morning

Think that the idea of a "shared car" is still a marginal phenomenon not ready for prime time and appealing to only a few ragged Greens here and there? Check out this listing to see where you can pick up a shared car this morning and drive it off to wherever it is you need to go in more than one thousand cities worldwide. Not so ragged, eh?

The listing that follows offers the latest cut of one that we have been compiling and continuously updating for some years in answer to the following simple question: "I woke up in the morning in XXX, and can I carshare here"? The list as it stands is pretty solid, but despite our great care we are aware that there are still places out there which we have yet to identify. But it's as good a start as you are likely to find anywhere.

So, you want to know where you can carshare this morning? Let's have a look at the one thousand cities where you can do just that this morning.

1. Aachen
2. Aalsmeer
3. Aarau
4. Aarhus
5. Abcoude
6. Adiswil
7. Adligenswil
8. Aesch
9. Affoltern/A.
10. Alexandria.
11. Alkmaar
12. Allschwil
13. Almere
14. Alpnach
15. Altdorf
16. Altstatten
17. Amersfoort
18. Amriswil
19. Amstelveen
20. Amsterdam
21. Amsterdam_Zuid
22. Amstetten
23. Andelfingen
24. Andermatt
25. Ann_Arbor
26. Antwerp
27. Apeldoorn
28. Appenzell
29. Arbon
30. Arlington
31. Arnhem
32. Arnstadt
33. Arth-Goldau
34. Ashburton
35. Aspen
36. Assen
37. Atlanta
38. Austin_TX
39. Baar
40. Bad_Gleichenberg
41. Bad_Homburg
42. Bad_Ragaz
43. Bad_Sackingen
44. Bad_Schwartau
45. Bad_Vilbel
46. Baden
47. Baden/Wien
48. Baltimore
49. Barcelona
50. Baretswil
51. Basel
52. Bassersdorf
53. Bath
54. Bauma
55. Bayreuth
56. Belfast_(shut)
57. Bellevue
58. Bellingham
59. Bellinzona
60. Belp
61. Bemmel
62. Bennekom
63. Bentham
64. Bergdietikon
65. Bergen
66. Bergisch_Gladbach
67. Bergsjöns
68. Berikon
69. Berkeley
70. Berlin
71. Bermgarten
72. Bern
73. Berne
74. Beromunster
75. Berthoud
76. Biberach
77. Biel
78. Bielefeld
79. Bienne
80. Bilthoven
81. Binningen
82. Birmingham
83. Birsfelden
84. Bludenz
85. Boblingen
86. Bochum
87. Boden
88. Bologna
89. Bolsward
90. Bolzano/Bozen
91. Bonn
92. Bonstetten
93. Borås
94. Bordeaux
95. Bordesholm
96. Borlänge
97. Boston
98. Bottmingen
99. Boulder
100. Bovenkarspel
101. Bozen
102. Bradford-on-Avon
103. Braunschweig
104. Breda
105. Breda
106. Bregenz
107. Bremen
108. Bremerhaven
109. Bremgarten
110. Breukelen
111. Brig
112. Brighton
113. Brighton_&_Hove
114. Brigue
115. Brisbane
116. Bristol
117. Brønshøj
118. Brookline
119. Buffalo
120. Bruges
121. Brugg
122. Brugg_Weiermatt
123. Brugge
124. Brummen
125. Brussels
126. Bubikon
127. Buchholz
128. Buchs
129. Buckfastleigh
130. Bulach
131. Bunnik
132. Bunschoten
133. Buochs
134. Burgdorf
135. Burlington_VT
136. Bussum
137. Calgary
138. Camberley
139. Cambridge_UK
140. Cambridge_MA
141. Capelle aan den ijssel
142. Carouge
143. Castricum
144. Castrop-Rauxel
145. Celle
146. Chaddleworth
147. Chagford
148. Cham
149. Chamvery
150. Chappel_Hill
151. Checircne-Bourg
152. Chester-le-street
153. Chicago
154. Chiètres
155. Chur
156. Clermont-Ferrand
157. Cleveland
158. Coburg
159. Colbe
160. Colchester
161. Colne_Valley
162. Copenhagen
163. Corburg
164. Cothen
165. Cottbus
166. Cranfield
167. Culemborg
168. Dachau
169. Dalfsen
170. Dancing Rabbit
171. Darmstadt
172. Davos
173. De
174. De bilt
175. Degersheim
176. Delémont
177. Delft
178. Delft
179. Delfzijl
180. Den_Bosch
181. Den_Haag
182. Denver
183. Dessau
184. Detroit
185. Deventer
186. Dielsdorf
187. Diemen
188. Dieren
189. Dietikon
190. Dinant
191. Doetinchem
192. Domat/Ems
193. Dordrecht
194. Dornach
195. Dornach-Arlesheim
196. Dornbirn
197. Dortmund
198. Dossenheim
199. Dresden
200. Driebergen
201. Dubendorf
202. Dublin
203. Dudingen
204. Dübendorf
205. Düdingen
206. Duisburg
207. Duren
208. Durham
209. Durnten
210. Dusseldorf
211. East_Bay
212. EastSide
213. Ebikon
214. Ebnat-Kappel
215. Ecublens
216. Ede
217. Edinburgh
218. Edmonton
219. Effretikon
220. Eglisau
221. Eindhoven
222. Einsiedeln
223. Elgg
224. Elmshorn
225. Elst (utr.)
226. Emmen
227. Emmenbrücke
228. Enkhuizen
229. Enschede
230. Enzingen
231. Eppstein
232. Erfurt
233. Erlangen
234. Erstfeld
235. Esbjerg
236. Eskilstuna
237. Espoo
238. Essen
239. Esslingen
240. Ettlingen
241. Eugene
242. Eutin
243. Exeter
244. Fairfax_County
245. Falkenberg
246. Fallanden
247. Falun
248. Farum
249. Faulensee
250. Feldkirch
251. Fellbach
252. Filderstadt
253. Flawil
254. Florence
255. Fort_Collins
256. Fort_Wayne
257. Frankfurt/M
258. Frauenfeld
259. Freising
260. Frenkendorf
261. Fribourg
262. Frick
263. Frutigen
264. Fukuoka
265. Furth
266. Gainesville
267. Gallaway
268. Garching
269. Gatineau
270. Gauting
271. Gävle
272. Gebenstorf
273. Gegraveneve
274. Geldrop
275. Gelsenkirchen
276. Gelterkinden
277. Genève
278. Genova
279. Gent
280. Gevelsberg
281. Ghent
282. Gieszlig;en
283. Gipf-Oberfrick
284. Gisikon
285. Giswil
286. Gland
287. Glaris
288. Gleisdorf
289. Gléresse
290. Goldach
291. Gorinchem
292. Gorssel
293. Gossau
294. Gossau_SG
295. Gothenborg
296. Göttingen
297. Gouda
298. Grabs
299. Grafelfing
300. Granges
301. Granollers
302. Graz
303. Greenbelt
304. Grenchen
305. Grenoble
306. Greven
307. Greyrock_Commons
308. Groningen
309. Grootebroek
310. Grut
311. Gstaad
312. Guelph
313. Gümligen
314. Guildford
315. Haarlem
316. Hagen
317. Halberstadt
318. Halifax
319. Halle
320. Halmstad
321. Hamburg
322. Hameln
323. Hamilton
324. Hanau
325. Hannover
326. Harderwijk
327. Haren
328. Hasle
329. Hasselt
330. Hausen_am_Albis
331. Hebden_Bridge
332. Hedingen
333. Heemstede
334. Heerbrugg
335. Heerlen
336. Heidelberg
337. Heiden
338. Heidenheim
339. Heiloo
340. Heimenschwand
341. Helsingborg
342. Helsinki
343. Hemsbach
344. Hengelo
345. Herbrechtingen
346. Herdecke
347. Herisau
348. Herning
349. Herrenberg
350. Herrliberg-Feldmeile
351. Herzogenbuchsee
352. Heuchelheim
353. High Wycombe
354. Hildesheim
355. Hillegom
356. Hilversum
357. Hinwil
358. Hiroshima
359. Hisingens
360. Hitzkirch
361. Hoboken
362. Hochdorf
363. Hofheim
364. Hofstetten-Flüh
365. Hohenem
366. Holzwickede
367. Hombrechtikon
368. Hoogkarspel
369. Hoorn
370. Horgen
371. Hørsholm
372. Horw
373. Houten
374. Hove
375. Huckelhoven
376. Huddersfield
377. Huizen
378. Ibbenbüren
379. Iéna
380. Ijsselsteik
381. Ilanz
382. Illnau
383. Ilpendam
384. Ingolstadt
385. Innsbruck
386. Interlaken
387. Ipsach
388. Irvine
389. Iserlohn
390. Ithica_NY
391. Ittigen
392. Jegenstorf
393. Jena
394. Jona
395. Jönköping
396. Jylland
397. Kaarst
398. Kalmar
399. Kapfenberg
400. Karlsruhe
401. Karlstad
402. Kassel
403. Katwijk
404. Kehrsatz
405. Kempten
406. Kesgrave
407. Kiel
408. Kingston
409. Kirchberg
410. Kirchheim
411. Kirchheim/Teck
412. Kirchlindach
413. Kirchzarten
414. Kitakyushu
415. Kitchener-Waterloo
416. Kitsap_County
417. Klagenfurt
418. Klosters
419. Kloten
420. Knonau
421. Kobe
422. København
423. Koblenz
424. Koln
425. Köniz
426. Konolfingen
427. Konstanz
428. Köping
429. Korneuburg
430. Kortrijk
431. Krefeld
432. Kreuzlingen
433. Kriens
434. Kristiansstad
435. Kufstein
436. Kusnacht
437. Kyoto
438. La_Chaux-de-Fonds
439. La_Rochelle
440. La_Tour-de-Peilz
441. Laatzen
442. Lachen
443. Landquart
444. Landshut
445. Landskrona
446. Landsmeer
447. Langen
448. Langendorf
449. Langenegg
450. Langenfeld
451. Langenhagen
452. Langenthal
453. Langnau
454. Laufen
455. Laufenburg
456. Laufon
457. Lausanne
458. Lausen
459. Le Locle
460. Leeds
461. Leeuwarden
462. Lehrte
463. Leicester
464. Leicester_Woodgate
465. Leiden
466. Leiderdorp
467. Leipzig
468. Lelystad
469. Lelystad
470. Lent
471. Lenzburg
472. Leusden
473. Leuven
474. Leverkusen
475. Lewes
476. Lichfield
477. Lichtensteig
478. Liège
479. Lienden
480. Liestal
481. Ligerz/Twann
482. Lignon
483. Lilienthal
484. Lille
485. Limerick
486. Lindau
487. Linköping
488. Linz
489. Lisse
490. Littau
491. Liverpool
492. Llanidoes
493. Locarno
494. Lochem
495. Lohmar
496. London
497. London_(Ont.)
498. Londonderry
499. Londres
500. Long_Beach,
501. Longueuil
502. Lorrach
503. Los_Angeles
504. Lostorf
505. Louvain_la_Neuve
506. Lubeck
507. Lucerne
508. Ludenscheid
509. Ludwigsburg
510. Ludwigshafen
511. Lübeck
512. Lüdenscheid
513. Lüneburg
514. Lugano
515. Luleå
516. Lund
517. Luneburg
518. Lupfig
519. Lustenau
520. Luzern
521. Lyon
522. Lyss
523. Maarssen
524. Maastricht
525. Machynlleth
526. Madison
527. Madrid
528. Magdeburg
529. Magden
530. Maidstone
531. Mainz
532. Majornas
533. Malmö
534. Malters
535. Manchester
536. Mannedorf
537. Mannheim
538. Marburg
539. Marl
540. Marly
541. Marseilles
542. Marthalen
543. Martigny
544. Mastricht
545. Maur
546. Maurik
547. Mayence
548. Mechelen
549. Meggen
550. Meiringen
551. Melbourne
552. Memmingen
553. Mendrisio
554. Menzingen
555. Merseburg
556. Merzhausen
557. Mettmenstetten
558. Meyrin
559. Middelburg
560. Milan
561. Minden
562. Minneapolis/St._Paul
563. Mittelhäusen
564. Modena
565. Mödling
566. Mohlin
567. Mölndal
568. Mönchaltorf
569. Mons
570. Montgomery_County
571. Monthey
572. Montpelier
573. Montreal
574. Montreux
575. Morges
576. Mortsel
577. Mosbach
578. Mössingen
579. Motala
580. Mountain_View
581. Mühlethurnen
582. Mülheim
583. Münchenbuchsee
584. Münchenstein
585. Münsingen
586. Münster
587. Mulheim/Ruhr
588. Munchenbuchsee
589. Munchsteinach
590. Munich
591. Munsingen
592. Munster
593. Muri
594. Muri-Gumligen
595. Muttenz
596. Nacka
597. Nagold
598. Nagoya
599. Namur
600. Nanaimo_(BC)
601. Nanikon
602. Nantes
603. Narbonne
604. Neckargmünd
605. Nelson _(BC)
606. Neuchacirctel
607. Neuchâtel
608. Neuenhof
609. Neuhausen
610. Neuss
611. Neu-Ulm
612. New_York_City
613. Newcastle
614. Newtown
615. Nice
616. Nidau
617. Niederbipp
618. Niedererlinsbach
619. Niederglatt
620. Niederhasli
621. Niederlenz
622. Niederrohrdorf
623. Niederscherli
624. Niederweningen
625. Nieuwegein
626. Nieuwerkerk ijssel
627. Nijmegen
628. Nimes
629. Noordwijk
630. Noordwijkerhout
631. Norwich
632. Nottuln
633. Nürnberg
634. Nussbaumen
635. Nyon
636. Oakland
637. Oberägeri
638. Oberdiessbach
639. Oberdorf/Stans
640. Oberentfelden
641. Oberglatt
642. Oberhausen
643. Oberkirch
644. Oberlunkhofen
645. Oberrieden
646. Oberursel
647. Oberuster
648. Oberwil
649. Obfelden
650. Odense
651. Odijk
652. Oegstgeest
653. Offenbach
654. Oftringen
655. Oldenburg
656. Olten
657. Ooij
658. Oostende
659. Oosterhout gld
660. Opfikon
661. Örebro
662. Osaka
663. Oslo
664. Osnarbruck
665. Ossingen
666. Österfärnebo
667. Ostermundigen
668. Östersund
669. Ostfildern
670. Ottawa
671. Ottenbach
672. Ottignies
673. Overijssel
674. Oxford
675. Palo_Alto
676. Pansdorf
677. Paris
678. Passau
679. Perth
680. Petit-Lancy
681. Pfaffikon
682. Pforzheim
683. Pfullingen
684. Philadelphia
685. Pieterlen
686. Pittsburgh
687. Plannegg
688. Plochingen
689. Poitiers
690. Poole
691. Porrentruy
692. Portland
693. Portsmouth
694. Potsdam
695. Pratteln
696. Preetz
697. Prilly
698. Prince_Georges_County
699. Princeton
700. Puch/Hallein
701. Puchheim
702. Pully
703. Purmerend
704. Québec
705. Quebec_City
706. Radolfzell
707. Rafz
708. Rankwell
709. Rannebergens
710. Rapperswil
711. Ratekau
712. Ratisbonne
713. Ratzeburg
714. Ravensburg
715. Reading
716. Rebstein
717. Redmond
718. Refrath
719. Regensburg
720. Regensdorf
721. Regina
722. Rehetobel
723. Reichenbach
724. Reinach
725. Renens
726. Reussbuhl
727. Reutlingen
728. Rheinfelden
729. Rhein-Neckar
730. Rhenen
731. Richmond
732. Richterswil
733. Riehen
734. Rifferswil
735. Rijnsburg
736. Rijswijk zh
737. Rikon
738. Rimini
739. Rodersdorf
740. Rodovre
741. Roermond
742. Roggwil
743. Rohr
744. Romanshorn
745. Rombach
746. Rome
747. Roosendaal
748. Rorschach
749. Rorschacherberg
750. Rosenheim
751. Roskilde
752. Rosmalen
753. Rostock
754. Rothenburg
755. Rothrist
756. Rotkreuz
757. Rottenburg
758. Rotterdam
759. Rotterdam
760. Rubigen
761. Rudolfstetten
762. Rümlang
763. Rüschlikon
764. Rüti
765. Rumlang
766. Ruschlikon
767. Russelsheim
768. Ruswil
769. Rutledge
770. Sgraveland
771. Sgravenhage
772. Saarbrucken
773. Sabadell
774. Sachseln
775. Saint_Paul
776. SaintQuentin
777. Sala
778. Salisbury
779. Salzburg
780. Samedan
781. San_Diego
782. San_Francisco
783. Sant_Cugat
784. Santa_Barbara
785. Santa_Monica
786. Santpoort noord
787. Sao Paulo
788. Sapporo
789. Sargans
790. Sarnen
791. Sarrebruck
792. Saskatoon
793. Sassenheim
794. Schaffhausen
795. Schalkwijk
796. Schallstadt
797. Schiedam
798. Schiedam
799. Schiers
800. Schliern
801. Schofflisdorf
802. Schoftland
803. Schonenwerd
804. Schopfheim
805. Schupfen
806. Schwabisch_Hall
807. Schwarzenburg
808. Schwechat
809. Schweinfurt
810. Schwerin
811. Schwerzenbach
812. Schwetzingen
813. Schwyz
814. Seattle
815. Seeheim-Jugenheim
816. Seelze
817. Sempach
818. Sheffield
819. Sherbrooke
820. 'S-hertogenbosch
821. Siegburg
822. Siegen
823. Sindelfingen
824. Singapore
825. Sion
826. Sissach
827. Sittard
828. Soest
829. Soest
830. Solothurn
831. South_Brent
832. Southampton
833. Speyer
834. Spiez
835. Spijkenisse
836. St._Gallen
837. St._Pölten
838. St_Albans
839. St_Austell
840. Stade
841. Stafa
842. Stans
843. Stansstad
844. Starrkirch-Will
845. Stavanger
846. Steffisburg
847. Steinbach
848. Steinen
849. Steinhausen
850. Steyr
851. Stockholm
852. Strasburg
853. Stroud
854. Stutensee
855. Stuttgart
856. Süßen
857. Suhr
858. Sundbyberg
859. Sundsvall
860. Sursee
861. Suszligen
862. Swansea
863. Sydney
864. Syracuse_NY
865. Therwil
866. Thun
867. Thusis
868. Thyholm
869. Tibro
870. Tiel
871. Tierp
872. Tilburg
873. Titisee-Neustadt
874. Tofino
875. Tokyo
876. Topsham
877. Torino
878. Tornesch
879. Toronto
880. Toulouse
881. Traverse_City
882. Trèves
883. Trimbach
884. Trondheim
885. Trubach
886. Tübingen
887. Turbenthal-Wila
888. Turgi
889. Turnhout
890. Ulm
891. Umeå
892. Umkirch
893. Unna
894. Uppsala
895. Urdorf
896. Uster
897. Utrecht
898. Uznach
899. Uzwil
900. Valby
901. Vancouver
902. Vancouver_Island
903. Vänersborg
904. Vantaa
905. Varberg
906. Varik
907. Västerås
908. Vaxholm
909. Växjö
910. Veenendaal
911. Veldhoven
912. Veltheim
913. Venis
914. Venlo
915. Vevey
916. Victoria
917. Vienna
918. Viernheim
919. Villach
920. Vinterviken
921. Viskafors
922. Vlaardingen
923. Volketswil
924. Voorburg
925. Voorhout
926. Vught
927. Wabern
928. Wadenswil
929. Wageningen
930. Waiblingen
931. Wald
932. Wallisellen
933. Waltrop
934. Warnsveld
935. Washington_DC
936. Wattenscheid
937. Wattwil
938. Weert
939. Weesp
940. Weinfelden
941. Weingarten
942. Weinheim
943. Weiz
944. Wels
945. Wettenberg
946. Wetter
947. Wettingen
948. Wetzikon
949. Wetzlar
950. Wezep
951. Whistler
952. Wiener_Neustadt
953. Wiesbaden
954. Wiesendangen
955. Wiesloch
956. Wijchen
957. Wijk bij duurstede
958. Will
959. Willisau
960. Winchester
961. Winterswijk
962. Winterthur
963. Witten
964. Wittenbach
965. Wittenberg
966. Witzenhausen
967. Woerden
968. Wognum
969. Wolfenbuttel
970. Wolfurt
971. Wolhusen
972. Worb
973. Worcester
974. Worms
975. Wunstorf
976. Wuppertal
977. Wurtzbourg
978. Yeovil
979. Yokohama
980. York
981. Yverdon
982. Zaandam
983. Zagreb
984. Zaltbommel
985. Zeist
986. Zevenaar
987. Zoetermeer
988. Zoeterwoude-dorp
989. Zoeterwoude-rijndijk
990. Zofingen
991. Zollikerberg
992. Zollikofen
993. Zuchwil
994. Zug
995. Zurich
996. Zutphen
997. Zweisimmen
998. Zwijndrecht
999. Zwischenwasser
1000. Zwolle

Oh dear. That's not quite one thousand, is it? Well, stay tuned. We are today putting this (2008) list before our 459 World Carshare colleagues, and I am sure that they will help us add to these numbers in no time flat. But that's nt really the point.

What we would really like you to do is to take a few minutes to check out if and how you can carshare in your community. Nothing there yet? Well let's work on it together. Write an email about that and address it to World Carshare at WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com and you just may receive some useful counsel on what to do about it. (See map for incoming traffic on World Carshare this morning.)



In reviewing this long list prior to publication yesterday, Conrad Wagner of Mobility Systems in Switzerland and a long time carshare hand and an active international consultant in the field, made the point that our list as it stands is very curious to the extent that it includes both mega capitals like New York, Tokyo, London and Paris, and at the same time a host of very small communities. That's correct and in a future article we will dig into our records and organize by country at least.

But this brings up an important observation. More than half of these "cities" are pretty small places in the Netherlands and Switzerland, some with only a couple of hundred inhabitants. Which makes a very interesting point that seems often to escape even the carshare specialists. And that is that carsharing can work in a community of any size. And that's why we call it . . .

CarSharing: The last nail in the coffin of old mobility.

-- Carsharing – it is really carsharings since there are a wide range of ways of going about it – is part of a much broader approach to resolving the problems of climate and sustainable transport in cities and communities around the world. What are the rest? Well, you probably know a number of them but stay tuned. World Streets will not deceive.

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