GIS Application for Stimulating Car-Sharing Activity

Abstract

Car-sharing activity in European countries started in the 1980s. Car-sharing has become a part of many urban transport systems and an effective means of reducing the number of private cars and their overall mileage nowadays. The carried out research is aimed at demonstrating how the planning process is used for determining car-sharing areas employing GIS. The authors of the article consider the car-sharing system as a particularly environmentally friendly tool expanding and complementing the public transport system (more electric or hybrid vehicles). The system works in the general urban transport system and serves city population. Thus, the example of Vilnius city shows the principles and applied methods for developing and servicing the car-sharing area. The assessment of car-sharing efficiency, economic, ecologic, social and infrastructure utilization efficiency has been appointed.