Contributing Editors - Vol. 1, No. 1

Editorial Panel: Carsharing Strategies for Cities:

The role of the editorial panels is to ensure through collective group oversight and participation the quality and relevance of each Brief. In the case of the group overseeing the carsharing Brief, you will find here a number of the leaders in the field, both as innovators and hands-on practitioners and as expert observers and analysts. Brief background notes will be found below for each along with links where you can find more on their work and contributions.

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Henric Andersson, City Car Club, Sweden

Henric Andersson has a strong history in the car rental business where he has taken part to many interesting projects. Henric has worked with City Car Club since 2003 when the Finish group took over Statoil's existing carsharing operations in Stockholm. Henric worked as a country manager for Sweden to the end of 2005. Nowadays he is the R&D Manager. City Car Club Sweden is part of Nordic Carshare Group.

Dirk Bogaert, Catalunya Carsharing, Spain

Dirk Bogaert - Dirk Bogaert trained as an engineer in Ghent, Belgium. His main work experience has been in logistics and general management with a major international organisation in Europe, Africa and South America. He joined Catalunya Carsharing in April 2005 as operations manager. Beginning in July 2006 Catalunya Carsharing took the name Avancar. The group is working with other cities in Spain at the present time to help spread carsharing there.

Jan Borghuis, Greenwheels, Netherlands

Jan Borghuis is one of the two Greenwheels founders who first came across car sharing when they read about Berlin-based StattAuto Car Sharing. They liked the concept but were convinced that it could be improved upon with the help of modern ICT applications such as on-board computers, chip cards and mobile telephony. Realising their ideas, they put their first three cars on the Rotterdam roads in June 1995. Undoubtedly helped by a partnership with the Dutch Railways, their success soon surpassed that of their German example. They took over StattAuto in 2004 - the acquisition of Shell Drive Deutschland was announced in January 2006.

Eric Britton, World Carshare and the New Mobility Agenda

Eric Britton studied physics in university and then went on to a PhD program in economics, but has in fact worked

professionally in neither area. His chosen life interest is doing something about the better management of technology as it effects ordinary people like you and him in our daily lives, which brought him early to the challenges of sustainable mobility. Over his career he has been a devoted supporter and at times a prickly friend of those charged with advancing the sustainability agenda, today a disorderly, lightly considered construction site in need of deep communications, ideas, unrelenting citizen activism and lots of hard work. Since 1973 when he first looked at the Procotip project in France, he thought that carsharing was a terrific idea. He still does. (Eric will work as rapporteur and secretary for the panel.)

Dave Brook, Carsharing US and co-founder Flexcar

Dave Brook - founded the first commercial carshare in the United States in 1998 with the launch of CarSharing Portland in Oregon. The

following year he was a co-founder of Flexcar (along with fellow Editorial Board member Conrad Wagner). In 2001 he sold his company to Flexcar and continued working for them in various capacities, as Portland manager, in national development and special projects until 2003. He stays in contact with carsharing around the world and posts news about developments in carsharing and new mobility at his website Carsharing.US. Dave provides consulting services to start up and operating carsharing companies and new mobility services, using his experience as an entrepreneur and in the corporate environment. Recently, he joined two other carsharing entrepreneurs, Tracy Carroll in Seattle and Conrad Wagner in Switzerland to form an international consulting firm: Carsharing International.

Robin Chase, Founder Zipcar, CEO Meadows Netowrk

Robin Chase is founder and former CEO of Zipcar, which she led to become the largest and fastest-growing car-sharing company in

North America. Zipcar's use of the Internet and wireless technology enables rental cars to emulate personal cars. She is also known for the evangelical virtual community she created among the members. Robin is founder and CEO of Meadow Networks, a consulting company that provides transportation solutions for the new world by applying innovative wireless technologies to solve problems of congestion, infrastructure financing, and car dependency. She graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

Ali Clabburn, Liftshare, UK

Ali Clabburn is Managing Director and Founder of liftshare.com ltd. He set up www.liftshare.com in 1997 whilst in his final year at University. Without any

external investment or Government subsidy liftshare has grown exponentially year on year and has now set up over 600 rideshare schemes for UK organisations including 180 Local Authorities. Membership is now well over 100,000 individuals and the scheme saves around 40,000,000 km a year. In the last few months liftshare have launched their first European scheme, Dublin, and have expanded their services to include BikeBUDi, WalkBUDi and TaxiBUDi schemes.

W. Dirk van Dijl, City Car Club, U.K.

Dirk van Dijl has more than twenty years experience in the transport and telematics industries. He joined the board of CityCarClub (then called Smart Moves) in 1999 as non executive Director. Prior to joining CityCarClub in an executive role in September 2003 he was Chief Executive of ACIS from May 99, where he turned this struggling real time information supplier to the bus industry into the UK market leader and one of the major European suppliers. Dirk holds a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance.

Olivier Domenach, Jonction Etudes Conseil, France

Olivier Domenach has PhD in Transport Economics, and is associate-manager of the consultancy JONCTION created in 1985. He works mainly with public transport authorities. The main part of his work is to organize public transport networks and especially for the technical, financial and legislation aspects. His expertise is wide ranging from terms of references for concessions contracts or agreements between Authorities and operators to designs passenger land transport strategies. He supports carsharing because it's a good step towards free car cities.

Didier Dumont, STIB / Services Spéciaux, Belgium

Didier Dumont is head of Department Special Services by STIB (Brussels Public Transport Operator). One of his duties is to develop new complimentary services to the core business of public transport. This is why he contributed to the development of the first carsharing scheme in Brussels and to the creation of a partnership between STIB and Cambio. He is member of the board of Cambio Brussels. He was a member of the UITP Transport Economics Commission until he was elected Chairman of the new UITP Carsharing Platform.

Bernard Fautrier, Monaco Developpement Durable, BeMonaco

Born in Monaco and a graduate of Science Po in Paris with a Masters in Political Science, Bernard started

professional life as a civil servant in the French Ministry of Economy, In 1969 he returned permanently to Monaco where he took charge of the urban development department and then went on to become general director of the public works department. From 1984 to 1995 he was minister for Public Works and Social Affairs. From 1995 to 2003 he served as Monaco's ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations in Geneva, and also Minister for International Cooperation. Bernard retired in 2003, but remains active in the field of environment and international relations, chairing the Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean, and now MC2D -- Monaco Sustainable Development. He is the person responsible for organizing this first EVER conference and for welcoming EuroCarshare 2006 to Monaco.

Geert Gisquière, Cambio/Taxistop, Belgium

Geert Gisquière was involved in the Belgian launch of carsharing from the very beginning and (living and working in Ghent) is now focussing on the cambio activities in the Flemish part of Belgium, being responsible for the startup in new cities, negotiations/contacts with the local city governments, ...

Michael Glotz-Richter, Bremen Environment Minister , Germany

Michael Glotz-Richter holds a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning and works as advisor for 'sustainable mobility' in the Bremen City Ministry for Construction, Environment and Transport / City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen / Senator fuer Bau, Umwelt und Verkehr). He initiated and coordinated the European research project moses (Mobility Services for Urban Sustainability) within the key action "City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage" of the 5. FP (European Commission DG Research) - dealing with options of Car-Sharing for sustainable transport and integrated urban development.

Saskia Hermans, Planner, France and the Netherlands

Saskia Hermans arrived on the Cöte d'Azur in the beginning of 2003. Coming from the densely populated and meticulously planned Netherlands Saskia immediately realized how much could be improved on the traffic planning and transport system of the Riviera. She actively joined local advocacy groups/associations on sustainable development. Graduated as an architect from the Delft school of Architecture, she now works as specialist on cycle planning for the regional government. Previously she has worked as an urban designer and on integrating sustainability in local planning in both Holland and France.

Dirk Hillbrecht, Cantamen, Germany

Dirk Hillbrecht - Dirk studied mathematics with focus on computer science. He started ride-sharing as an ordinary user back in 1994. Soon he discovered severe flaws in those days booking management mainly consisting of some sheets of paper and a pencil. In 1997 he started developing a software solution for this soon to be known as "EBuS". After some years of changing business structures, in 2003 he eventually founded cantamen GmbH together with three German carsharing providers. Today, he is partner and CTO of the company.

Jane Kingswood, Carplus Rethinking Car Use, UK

Jane Kingswood - Jane is Project Officer with Carplus. Carplus has worked in the UK for 8 years, from small beginnings as the Community Car Share Network encouraging community groups it has since expanded and works across the country, engaging with communities, employers, housing developers, local regional and national government to spread the messages of rethinking car use. Fate brought her to sustainable transport when Jane joined the organisation in 2004, with a BA in Environmental Management and a few years of unrelated experience. She is very excited to be involved in the world of car clubs as they take off in the UK. The Cars Cutting Carbon project to develop a network across the Yorkshire and Humber region will keep her busy for at least the next 2 years.

Kimmo Laine, Nordic Carshare/City Car Club , Finland

Kimmo Laine - Kimmo has been involved in car haring since 1999 when he started City Car Club in Finland. Since than he has developed both City Car Club and technology company Altivox (providing services to CS operators) to be the leading car sharing provider in Nordic countries. Kimmo worked before in insurance broking and real estate business. City Car Club Finland and Sweden are nowadays part of Nordic Carshare Group.

Uwe Latsch, INVERS GmbH, Germany

Uwe Latsch: Uwe is CEO of INVERS GmbH. During his job as scientific assistant at the Institute of Communications at the University of Siegen he has worked on the field of "Neural Networks", the integration of smartcards and mobile radio communication in carsharing applications. The project "COCOS - Carsharing Organisation and Communication System" resulted in the formation of INVERS GmbH in 1997. Nowadays INVERS supplies innovative technology (hardware and software) for carsharing operators and business carpools in 13 countries.

Arnaud Lejeune, Eileo, France

Arnaud Lejeune started looking into carsharing as a possible urban project and then a business opportunity in France when a university student in the late 1990s. He is today the founder and CEO of Eileo, a French supplier offering supporting software and global solutions for large and small carsharing operations world-wide since 2002.

Marco Mastretta, Iniziativa Car Sharing , Italy

Marco Mastretta is Managing Director of ICS, the consortium of the main cities to develop carsharing in Italy, underwritten by the Italian Ministry of Environment. He is a professional, engineer, operating in the field of mobility in general and of technological system for mobility. He co-operates with many Italian Public Bodies and private companies. He is involved as specialist and technical coordinator in many European Projects dealing with mobility and transportation systems and technologies.

Adam Millard-Ball, researcher, Nelson\Nygaard , USA

Adam Millard-Ball is a transportation planner and environmental policy specializing in initiatives to reduce dependence on the private car. His expertise includes market analysis for car-sharing

startups, program evaluation, and the integration of car-sharing into wider parking management and transportation plans. Adam recently served as Principal Investigator and lead author for the U.S. Transportation Research Board Study, “Car-sharing: Where and How it Succeeds,” which provides a practical guide for cities, transit agencies and other partners on how to take advantage of car-sharing’s potential. Adam is Consulting Associate with Nelson\Nygaard, a San Francisco-based transportation planning firm, where he specializes in car-sharing, parking management and taxi regulation. He is also a doctoral student at Stanford University, where his research focuses on the effectiveness of local greenhouse gas reduction strategies.

Loic Mignotte, Caisse Commune , France

Loic Mignotte is one of the founders of Caisse Commune, the first successful carshare operation in France which got underway in 1999. His thoughts first turned to carsharing as a new mobility form when he was posted to the European Commission in 1994, during which time he has a chance to learn more about the Stattauto operation in Bremen. He gradually built up a demonstration project in Paris bringing together the French Ministry of Transportation, Ademe (the national energy agency), with the participation of the Renault group and the city of Paris. The original pilot project demonstrated that carsharing has a future in Paris, and was helped by favorable media reactions and individual subscribers to the new service. As a sign of the continuing upgrading and professionalism of the group, after an audit by the AFAQ they received IS0 9001 certification.

Peter Muheim, Mobility CarSharing Mobility Support Inc. Switzerland

Peter Muheim trained in urbanism and engineering in Rapperswil, Switzerland. From 1990 to 1997 he was committee member of ATG AutoTeilet Genossenschaft (car-sharing cooperative). After the important ATG merger with ShareCom to create a Swiss national carshare champion in 1997 became vice chairman of Mobility CarSharing Switzerland. In 2001 switched into operations as COO. Since 2004 CEO of Mobility Support Inc.; a Mobility subsidiary that helps clients to establish carsharing services in other countries.

Flaminio Orazzini, Car City Club, Italy

Flaminio Orazzini trained in engineering at the Università Degli Studi di Pisa, Italy and went on to a long career in FIAT as Product and Brand Manager, Marketing and Advertising Director in Brazil and Italy. After three decades of international car development and sales experience, was named in 2003 as CEO of Car City Club, the car sharing operator in Turin.

Roland Ries, Sénateur du Bas-Rhin , France

Roland Ries - Roland is Senator of the Bas-Rhin department of France. He has among his responsibilities the charge of monitoring developments and needs in the areas of public transport and urban mobility. Previously as mayor of Strasburg, he took a leading role in the creation of an outstanding mobility system for the city (creation of a new tramway, cycling network, creation of multimodal interchanges). In December 2005 he organized a colloquium at the Senate bringing together a number of leading French and European authorities and groups working in the field of carsharing. Subsequent to this initiative, he presented a proposition of a law in order to define and promote carsharing in France which is presently being considered by the French Senate.

Yvon Roche, AutoPartage Provence , France

Yvon Roche - is a dedicated Green activist, founder and managing director of a carsharing operation, AutoPartage Provence, a consumer cooperative in Marseille, with affiliate carshare groups in Grenoble, Lyons, and Strasbourg. Autopartage is currently looking into further expansion both in Marseille and other cities in the South of France.

Jean-Baptiste Schmider, Autotrement/ France Autopartage, France

Jean-Baptiste is one of France's pioneering carshare entrepreneurs. He studied political science and upon completing university worked for twelve years as a consultant in management for local government. In 1999 he founded Auto'trement carsharing in Strasburg France as a non-profit cooperative in partnership with local government. The company entered service after a full year of planning and preparation, starting out with 15 subscribers, 3 cars, one station and one employee: Jean-Baptiste. Today he is CEO of Auto'trement Strasbourg and founder and manager of the France AutoPartage network. Company also offers planning and start-up services for cities in France.

Susan Shaheen, Innovative Mobility, United States

Susan Shaheen became interested in carsharing in the mid-1990s and focused her dissertation research on CarLink the first "smart" carsharing service in the U.S. As part of her post-doctoral research at the University of California (UC), Berkeley she led the CarLink II pilot program and research evaluation. Over the last decade, she has written over 25 reports and publications on carsharing in North America, Asia, and the world. She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on technology management and the environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis (1999). She is the chair of the New Public Transportation Systems and Technology Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and served as the founding chair of the Carsharing/Station Car TRB Subcommittee from 1999 to 2004.

Robert Stussi, Associação Portuguesa do Veículo Ecologico, Portugal

Robert Stussi - Swiss and Portuguese, Robert is a senior consultant, researcher and activist in Transport and Urban Mobility. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Major in Transportation Planning, in 1968 from the Swiss National Institute of Technology and his MSc. in Planning from University of British Columbia. Pro-active for soft modes, European Mobility Week, mobility management, carsharing, alternative vehicle technologies (being president of the Portuguese and vice president of the European Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles). Networking and EU project and expert activities. Working and teaching experience in several countries, and an active proponent of carsharing and participant in carshare events internationally for some years. "Glad to assist Eric in his as usual creative effort to get people together and things going, in carsharing and elsewhere!"

Conrad Wagner, Mobility Support Inc, Switzerland

Conrad Wagner - Conrad is a consultant and project manager for Mobility Systems and Time-Shared Vehicles Programs, former co-president of Mobility CarSharing Switzerland and co-founder of ECS European Car Sharing. He is a globally-recognized expert focused on monitoring developments in this field, helping to create and run new development and business opportunities. 1999-2000 he served as a key WestStart-Calstart consultant in California for Mobility Systems and Time-shared vehicles Services projects, and was also working for the State Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He is co-founder and was strategic consultant of Mobility Inc. in Seattle WA USA.