CarSharing Association (CSA) is a federation of 25

carsharing Carsharing or car sharing (AU, NZ, CA, TH, & US) or car clubs (UK) is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. It differs from traditional car rental in that the owners of the cars are often pri ...

organizations worldwide representing more than 4,000 shared vehicles and more than 125,000 member-drivers in total. The goal of CSA is "to provide a respected authority and unified industry voice in order to support its members, their constituents and the communities in which they operate."Purpose, goal and mission
/ref> The Association works on industry standards, best practices; produces educational networking and conference events and advocates for public policy that is supportive of the shared-use mobility industry. The Association also promotes the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for round-trip, station-based carsharing operators. CSA emphasizes

sustainability Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...

, social and financial benefits, and integration with

public transportation Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typical ...

Member organizations

AutoShare Enterprise Holdings is an American private holding company headquartered in Clayton, Missouri in Greater St. Louis. It is the parent company of car rental agencies Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, Alamo Rent a Car and also operate ...

* Buffalo CarShare * CarShareHFX * CarShare Vermont *Capital CarShare *

City CarShare City Carshare was a carsharing program that operated in the San Francisco Bay Area, starting in 2001. It rented vehicles by the hour. In November 2016, the company effectively ceased operations, when Getaround, a for-profit, carsharing company, t ...

* City of Aspen * CityWheels * Coast Car Co-op * Communauto * Community Car *

Community CarShare Community CarShare was a non-profit, carsharing co-op in southern Ontario, that was founded in 1998. It ran into financial trouble and was acquired by Vrtucar on 27 March 2018. They operated in Waterloo Region, Hamilton, Guelph, St. Catharines ...

* eGo CarShare *

Enterprise CarShare Enterprise Holdings is an American private holding company headquartered in Clayton, Missouri in Greater St. Louis. It is the parent company of car rental agencies Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, Alamo Rent a Car and also operates ...

GoGet GoGet CarShare is a car sharing service operating in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The service was the first of its kind in Australia. GoGet was launched as Newtown CarShare on 6 June 2003 with three vehicles and twelve founding members. Fo ...

* HOURCAR *

I-GO Car Sharing I-GO was a Chicago-based car sharing organization which is owned by Enterprise Holdings. It was established in 2002 by the Center for Neighborhood Technology as an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization working in the fields of urba ...

Ithaca Carshare Ithaca most commonly refers to: *Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' *Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka ...

* JuiceCar *

JustShareIt JustShareIt was a peer-to-peer car rental and car sharing marketplace. It allowed individuals to rent vehicles directly from individual car owners or car sharing companies in local neighborhood locations. Acquisition JustShareIt was launched on ...

* Modo the Car Co‐op *

Peg City Car Coop PEG or peg may refer to: Devices * Clothes peg, a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying * Tent peg, a spike driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground * Tuning peg, used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrumen ...

* Playcar Car Sharing *

VRTUCAR Communauto is a Canadian carsharing company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that in fifteen Canadian cities and Paris, France. As of March 2018 it had 40,000 users, and a fleet of approximately 2,000 free-floating and station-based vehicles. ...

* Zazcar

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CSA Website
Organizations established in 2011 Carsharing

Member organizations

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