Registration Open for the next Collaborative Chats! Collaborative Consumption and the Future of Mobility
Transportation is often anecdotally referred to as the gateway to collaborative consumption. Whether it's bike sharing, car sharing, or good old public transportation like trains and buses, people are more likely to be open to sharing modes of transport.
April's Collaborative Chats seeks to explore current and future trends in transportation, and what role collaborative consumption will play in addressing that future.
Join Panelists:
John Zimmer, Co-Founder and COO, Zimride
Avery Lewis, Head of Product, Getaround
Timothy Papandreou, Deputy Director, Sustainable Streets Planning, SFMTA
William Baumgardner, Associate Principal, Transportation Planning, ARUP
As they explore the following questions:
"How can collaborative consumption be used to meet today's mobility challenges? What are the greatest barriers to transportation behavior change and how can they be overcome on emerging technology platforms? How can policymakers and traditional transportation industries adapt to this shifting landscape and accelerate its adoption? "
We hope you'll join us April 19th! These events sell our quickly, so Register now!
Comments
Seth Schneider wrote on 04.07.12, 11:51am:
Chrisco, do you have any ideas for a different term? The consumption part of "collaborative consumption" has bothered me too, because it suggests that we're going to consume/use up/deplete things. That's what I believe the term originally meant, although nowadays it seems to be used in the more general sense of buying things or spending money. What do you think of "sharing economy"?
Chad Lockett wrote on 04.09.12, 9:14am:
I agree, consumption makes me (and most people) feel as if it will deplete or run-out. Like Chrisco said, using the term "sharing economy" seems much friendlier and logical. And this makes everyone understand the concept rather than the educated only, lol.
I wish someone would come up with a better name than "Collaborative Consumption." That term is terrible. Why? The essence of the trend is about (A) using existing resources more efficiently, (B) getting more done with less (or the same), (C) and doing it in a manner that is win-win-win for the people doing the sharing and for at least one other person or group of people, up to and including everybody in the case of sharing that results less pollution or traffic, etc. So the trend is about sharing. The word "consuming" gives the opposite connotation. Also just saying "Collaborative Consumption" sucks. It's a five-syllable word that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue paired with a three-syllable word. That's eight syllables over two words, both of which start with the same letter/sound. Not nice at all. Terrible, in fact.