Toolkit Links: For more information and resources on starting a car sharing organization, see this presentation from a 2-day training session and check out this proposed Action Plan.
 

For more information on the potential benefits of car sharing, check out the Victoria Transport Policy Institute study by Todd Litman entitled Evaluating Carsharing Benefits.
 

For a study on how membership in a car sharing program in Portland (OR) increased the member’s rate of walking, see Impacts of Car Sharing on Walking Behavior (this study is also available online).
 

A recent overview of US car sharing programs can be found in the 2003 article US Carsharing and Station Car Policy Considerations: Monitoring Growth, Trends & Overall Impacts by Susan A. Shaheen et. al. with the University of California, Berkeley (this study is also available online).
 

A recent study by the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development provided a positive evaluation of the City CarShare program in the San Francisco Bay Area (you can also read the full report online).

Check out this case study review and evaluation of the car sharing programs in the City of San Francisco and the City of Amsterdam (this case study is also available online).

Two comprehensive resources on car sharing in the European context are CarSharing ’99: Present Status, Future Prospects: A Casebook of Useful Sources published by The Commons Sustainability Agenda  and Carsharing 2000: Sustainable Transport’s Missing Link published by the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice.
 

Internet Resources: Currently operating car sharing organizations in the US and Canada:
AutoShare (Toronto)
City CarShare (San Francisco Bay Area)
Eugene Car Co-op  (Eugene, OR; their home page is currently under construction, try here for more info)
FlexCar  (14 cities in California, Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington state, plus Washington DC)
Victoria CarShare Co-op (Victoria)
ZipCar (Boston, New York/New Jersey, Washington DC)
Philly CarShare 
Boulder CarShare
I-Go Chicago

Potential funding sources for starting a car sharing programs:
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) - Statewide Car Sharing Grant Program
Columbia Foundation  - Grants for sustainable communities and economies
David & Lucile Packard Foundation  - Conservation program area
East Bay Community Foundation -Sustainable communities
Evelyn & Walter Hass, Jr. Fund - Strengthening neighborhoods
Gaia Funds - Environmental grants
James Irvine Foundation - Sustainable communities
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund  - Environmental grants
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation - Environmental grants

North American car sharing resources:
CarSharing.net has an informative overview of car sharing in the US and includes an online library of useful resources.
 

The Beginner’s Guide to the Car Sharing Business is a website devoted to the helping peoples start a new car sharing program in their community.

Arlington County’s (VA) CommuterPage.com  provides a user-friendly overview of car sharing that focuses on the Washington, DC metropolitan area but that contains useful information no matter where you live.

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI) has identified best practices for organizing and running a car sharing organization in the online report Carsharing: Vehicle Rental Services that Substitute for Private Vehicle Ownership.

 
RAIN Magazine has a CarSharing Contact List & Cool Links page that lists links and resources related to car sharing in the United States and Canada.

Station cars at transit stations are variation on the theme of car sharing programs. For more information on station cars, check out this online review of CarLink (a station car pilot project in San Francisco Bay Area) or see the website for the National Station Car Association. To see the idea of station cars being integrated within a larger car sharing program, read how City CarShare locates some of their car sharing ‘depots’ at or near BART rail stations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

International car sharing resources:
RAIN Magazine has created an easy-to-read online Car Sharing Handbook, which focuses on the European context but which may still help you in setting up a car sharing organization in your community (see especially the “Car Sharing Misunderstood” section that addresses some typical reservations/criticisms about car sharing).

The website for European Car Sharing provides insight into the European experience with car sharing.

Car Sharing Canada has a number of useful resources on their website.
 

A comprehensive website on car sharing is the Paris-based website @World CarShare, which describes itself as a “cooperative international information sharing and communications program in support of car sharing projects and programs world wide.”
 

The Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds has evaluated the impacts of car sharing clubs in the United Kingdom in their online report, Car Share and Car Clubs: Potential Impacts

Invers is a German/Canadian company which now offers car sharing operational systems in the US.