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Austin’s new car sharing program, Car2Go, starts today. It is the first of its kind in the nation. During a six-month pilot program, city employees will have access to 200 Smart cars, which will be pre-positioned at parking spots around town. Austin city officials say it will offer a convenient, environmentally-friendly alternative to [...]
Car2Go launches in Austin (various sources)
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments
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Car2go launches in Austin Texas
November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Following the successful launch of the new mobility concept car2go in Europe (in the City of Ulm, Germany), car2go and the City of Austin, Texas will launch the first North American pilot program for car2go on November 17th. car2go is a new, sustainable mobility concept from Daimler which redefines individual transportation in congested areas. [...]
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2009 Urban Mobility Report: Small Change in Traffic Congestion
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments
According to the 2009 Urban Mobility Report, recently published by The Texas Transportation Institute:
Travelers spent one hour less stuck in traffic in 2007 than they did the year before and wasted one gallon less gasoline than the year before. The differences are small, but they represent a rare break in near-constant growth in traffic over [...]
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