Car sharing scheme in Paris

My friend from Paris gave me an update of the city's proposed car sharing scheme. It will involve 3,000 electric-operated vehicles. The city is inviting proposals from private sector operators to run the car sharing scheme, which is expected to operate from 2012.

This is an interesting approach. The city government is able to find the parking spaces and clears the regulatory hurdles. The private sector will operate the schemes under some regulated pricing.

The advantage of the proposed car sharing scheme are:
- use of electric vehicles, which is friendly for the environment
- each vehicle can be shared by many users in a day (save parking space) and reduced number of vehicles

I hope that a similar scheme can be set up in each of the towns in Singapore to provide local transport from residential areas to MRT stations and bus terminus.

Tan Kin Lian