The sharing economy will transform the way we think about transport

Scott Le Vine,Imperial College London

28 November 2014

Scott le Vine is a research associate at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London. He co-authored (with Alireza Zolfaghari and John Polak) Carsharing: evolution, challenges and opportunities, for the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, which is available at: http://tinyurl.com/q5hsac4

Shared-mobility services are making themselves felt on the transport landscape – with Uber recently valued at a higher market capitalisation than Tesco, it can be safely concluded that we are now witnessing the ‘sharing economy’ come of age, with transport leading the way. The time is therefore right to take stock of where we are now, where events are headed, and what needs to happen to realise the sharing economy’s full potential.

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