The document summarizes the Shared-Use Mobility Summit that took place in San Francisco in October 2013. Over 300 people attended from 105 companies, 62 government agencies and 17 universities. Key sessions at the summit included discussions on trends in shared mobility, case studies of successful shared mobility programs, the sharing economy, bikesharing, governance approaches, impacts of shared mobility, and the future of mobility policy. Key takeaways included that government needs to facilitate shared mobility, access needs to be expanded to lower income areas, greater public subsidy is required, and integration with public transit should be a goal.

1. Shared-Use Mobility Summit Highlights
Workshop 137, 93rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Susan A. Shaheen, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor & Co-Director,
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
January 12, 2014

2. Overview
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Definitions
Summit highlights
Key takeaways
Next steps

3. Shared-use mobility is defined as mobility services
that are shared among users including:
Traditional public transportation services, such
as buses and trains;
Vanpools, carpools, shuttles, TNCs;
Carsharing, bikesharing, scooter sharing in all its
forms; and
Flexible goods movement
Definitions
What is shared-use mobility?

4. ownership
The trend is clear:
Access trumps possession.
Access is better than
- Kevin Kelly
Paradigm Shift?
Access trumps ownership

5. Carpooling:
Grouping of travelers into a privately owned
vehicle, typically for commuting
Vanpooling:
Commuters traveling to/from a job center
sharing a ride in a van
Real-time ridesharing services:
Match drivers and passengers, based on
destination, through app before the trip
starts
Ridesharing
Evolving system of services and operators

6. Roundtrip Carsharing:
Round trip, pay by the hour/mile,
non-profit and for profit fleet models
Peer-to-Peer Carsharing:
Shared use of private vehicle typically
managed by third party
One-Way Carsharing:
Pay by the minute, point to point, fleet
operated, street parking agreements
Fractional Ownership Carsharing:
Individuals sublease or subscribe to a
vehicle owned by a third party
Carsharing
There are many flavors of carsharing

7. Scooter Sharing:
Round trip or one way, pay by the hour
Smartphone access, operator fleet
Scooter Sharing
Fills the niche between cars and bicycles

8. Public Bikesharing:
Point to point, pay by the ½ hr, fleet
operated, docking stations
Closed Community Bikesharing:
Campuses and closed membership,
mainly roundtrip, linking to carsharing
Peer-to-Peer Bikesharing:
Rent or borrow hourly or daily from
individuals or bike rental shops
Bikesharing
Growing exponentially in urban centers

9. Transportation Network Company:
Prearranged trips, App to pay and
connect passengers with drivers who
use their personal vehicles
Transportation Network
Companies
A new category of transportation
services; need for study

10. Privately-Owned Vehicles
Public Transit, Rail, Bus, Ferry
Regional & Intercity
Services: Rail, HighSpeed Rail, Air
Shared Mobility Services
Employer Shuttles,
Jitneys, Commercial
Deliveries
Taxi, Limousine &
Transportation Network
Companies
Transportation
Today
Multiple modes, little or no integration

11. “The Whole Is Greater Than The
Sum of Its Parts.”
-Aristotle

12. Customer Experience
Routing
Booking
Payments
Credits/Offsets
Games/Value add
Mobility Mgmt.
Integration to enhance customer
experience

13. Rapid Network Boarding Island
Shared Mobility
Vision
Integrated for customer access
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14. • October 10-11, 2013
• Hilton San Francisco Financial District Hotel
• ~300 attendees
Shared-Use Mobility Summit Highlights
– 105 companies, 62 governmental agencies, 17
universities
– 26 affiliations from carsharing, 16 from bikesharing, 6
from ridesharing/TNCs
• Dialogue among mobility providers,
policymakers, public agencies, non-profits,
technologists, academics, media, stakeholders,
affiliated industries

15. Key Sessions from the Summit
• Setting the Stage: Trends, Definitions, and Policies
• Shared-Use Mobility Success Stories
• The Sharing Economy: Scaling the Shared-Use Mobility
Marketplace
• Bikesharing Mobile Workshop
• Governance 2.0 (“Micro” Level): Shared-Use Policy Approaches
for City and County Governance
• The Impacts of Shared-Use Mobility Services
• The Future of Mobility and Transportation Policy and Planning
• Fostering Multi-Modal Integration and Public Transit
Connections
• Parallel Industry Breakout Sessions
• Industry Policy Considerations
• The Future of Shared-Use Mobility

16. Key Takeaways
• Government needs to act as a facilitator
• Social equity demands the “push” of some of these
innovations to lower income areas and populations
• Greater public subsidy needed
• Integration with public transit should be a goal
• Parking and insurance remain obstacles
• Industry-wide standards are needed
• Privacy efforts are important (individual,
company level)

17. Special Thanks: This Took A Village!
TSRC/ITS Berkeley/UCB: Madonna Camel, Helen Bassham, Adam Cohen,
Josh Steiner, Chris Cosgrove, Phyllis Orrick, Sarah Yang, Laura Melendy
Summit Planning, Support & Advice: Dave Brook, Robert Cervero,
Matthew Christensen, Adam Cohen, Melanie Crotty, Benjamin De La Pena,
Rod Diridon, Sharon Feigon, Neal Gorenflo, Allen Greenberg, Guy Fraker,
Karen Frick, Larry Filler, Lisa Gansky, Neal Gorenflo, Steve Gutmann, Rick
Hutchinson. Donna Maurillo, Russell Meddin, Paul Minett, Jason
Pavluchuk, Timothy Papandreou, Karen Philbrick, Jason Pavluchuk, Dan
Sturges, John Williams, Alan Woodland, Sarah Yang, and Sue Zielinski
Numerous sponsors and partners, as well as all our volunteers!

18. Mobility Providers: 2013 Summit

19. Next Steps

20. Acknowledgements
 Helen Bassham, Madonna Camel,
Nelson Chan, Matthew Christensen,
Adam Cohen, TSRC
 Sharon Feigon, Alternative
Transportation for Chicagoland
 Jason Pavluchuk, Pavluchuk &
Associates
 Scott Bernstein, Center for
Neighborhood Technologies
 Timothy Papandreou, SFMTA
 Sponsors and supporters of the SF
Summit

21. www.tsrc.berkeley.edu