Communauto is a company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that operates a carsharing service in 4 cities in Quebec: Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau and Sherbrooke. It currently has 17,500 users who share a fleet of approximately 830 vehicles (as of January 2009).
Founded in Quebec City in 1994 by Benoît Robert, its current CEO, Communauto is the oldest carsharing organization in North America. Cycling advocate and environmentalist Claire Morisse...
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Communauto is a company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that operates a carsharing service in 4 cities in Quebec: Montreal, Quebec City, Gatineau and Sherbrooke. It currently has 17,500 users who share a fleet of approximately 830 vehicles (as of January 2009).
Founded in Quebec City in 1994 by Benoît Robert, its current CEO, Communauto is the oldest carsharing organization in North America. Cycling advocate and environmentalist Claire Morissette (1950-2007) played a major role in its evolution starting in 1995, when Communauto established itself in Montreal as a private company.
Communauto defines itself as a company with a social, urbanistic and environmental mission. Its unique goal is to provide a convenient and economical alternative to owning a car. The underlying objective is to foster a more rational use of the automobile by:
The impact of carsharing in Quebec was evaluated independently as part of a study conducted by Tecsult Inc. in 2006. The study noted, among other...
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