Welcome to a shared transport future well worth watching

Alistair Kirkbride

16 September 2016

Alistair Kirkbride works on creative ways to change how people travel. He is director of Carplus Bikeplus – the national representative body for shared transport in the UK. He works across the transport NGO, operator and Government sector as well as on community development in his Lake District home. Email: alistair@carplus.org.uk

Welcome to my new monthly column on shared transport. I’m going to use this column to explore the shared transport landscape and some of the tectonic shifts that are currently shaping it. Some effects are already visible and have names and some are only just coming into view, but there are still huge areas that will emerge over the next few years.

It will look not only at the shared transport sector (car clubs, car or ride sharing, bike share schemes and taxi sharing), but use it as...