What will be the environmental effects of new free-floating car-sharing systems? The case of car2go in Ulm

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1519-1528

  Firnkorn, Jörg ^a   Müller, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Car sharing; Environmental effect; Free floating system; Product service system; Public private transportation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RESEARCH WORK; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; ULM;

EID: 79956094162     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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