I have researched for current web carpooling initiatives in the UK. There seems to be some systems availablebut not much going on in them. Most of this seem to be to wide in their approach (systems for whole Europe or the whole world). In my opinion this can be an obstacle for success in this kind of initiatives. On the other side I found a one web page that seems to be pretty active: https://carshare.liftshare.com/default.asp

After founding this service new questions arise in my mind:

• Is it worth building and offering a new service that has the same functionality as one that already exist?
• What is the point in competing with them if they are contributing to the ultimate Goal of the project?
• Will be better to join them instead of competing?

I am realizing that Change can be uncomfortable not only to the affected, but to the implementer as well!
But as we have learned on the last lectures, we must always stay flexible when implementing change.

Anyway there is still a big market (potential car-shared rides) that hasn’t been embrace jet. So there is still lot to contribute, in one or other way.

Now going to the short term objective: Although there are on-line systems available for car sharing, in the CUSA nobody is using them. Why? Is there a resistance to change the way they currently arraigning trips? Are this systems not practical for this purpose?…keep in tune