Re-inventing the Private Car provided more than just an overview of another transport service.

It was the first seminar in Australia dedicated to delivering cutting edge information and research regarding an alternative to private car ownership that is rapidly growing around the world and reviewed international and local case studies that demonstrate the significant benefits this service can provide.

Re-inventing the Private Car was relevant to a wide range of professions and by attending you would have gained the following industry specific knowledge:

Land-use and transport planning
Local government
Road safety
Environmental programs
Intelligent transport systems
& telemetrics

Fleet management
Architecture and green building design
Property development
Provision of public transport
Motor vehicle industry


Car sharing and land-use and transport planning
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  • Facilitates integrated land-use transport planning
  • Incorporates latest mobility services into Transit-orientated Development (TOD) around town centres
  • Increases the success of transport plans that integrate different transport modes by providing another option
  • Augments and improves the viability of public transport services

Car sharing and local government    
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  • Reduces car dependency in your LGA (local government area)
  • Promotes economic development of local businesses, especially retail traders
  • Encourages the use and development of walking and cycling facilities
  • Delivers savings on road-based maintenance expenditure
  • Offers a positive alternative in residential areas with constrained on-street parking
  • Provides a solution that is unique in that it costs Government little to implement, saves everyone money and is a positive for the environment and the community

Car sharing and Road Safety    
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  • Encourages responsible motor vehicle use

Car sharing and environmental programs    
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  • Offers your clients an innovative environmental service that gives them more choice and lowers fleet or motor vehicle operating costs
  • Demonstrates the future of eco-efficient environmental services
  • Allows internal resources to be saved
  • Demonstrates the role of internal environmental programs to drive costs down and improve environmental performance
  • Offers staff a green transport alternative

Car sharing and intelligent transport systems & telemetrics specialists    nextgo to top of page
  • Demonstrates the role of ITS in better utilising motor vehicles
  • Demonstrates how technology can better use existing infrastructure

Car sharing and fleet managers    nextgo to top of page
  • Lowers fleet operating costs through better utilisation of existing vehicles
  • Lowers administrative and operational cost through the use of booking systems integrated with fleet management technologies
  • Offers great fleet mix and availability through integration with a car sharing service

Car sharing and architects
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  • Allows for greater house-mix or diversity
  • Increases the number of housing units that can be accommodated
  • Gives a development an extra marketing edge over other development
  • Increases the value of the development from innovative use of extra space
  • Reduces the requirement to construct parking
  • Reduces on-site infrastructure costs from reduced traffic generation
  • Speeds up the DA-approval process by better meeting Council strategic transport goals
  • Increases the potential to develop sites previously unviable because of traffic impacts

Car sharing and property developers    
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  • Increases the number of housing units that can be accommodated
  • Gives a development an extra marketing edge over other development
  • Increases the value of the development by enabling the innovative use of extra space
  • Reduces the requirement to construct parking
  • Reduces on-site infrastructure costs from reduced traffic generation
  • Speeds up the DA-approval process by better meeting Council strategic transport goals
  • Increases the potential to develop sites previously unviable because of traffic impacts

Car sharing and public transport providers    
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  • Increases patronage
  • Maintains loyalty amongst ridership
  • Offers marketing opportunities to better meet multi-modal trips, ie bus-car, train-car

Car sharing and motor vehicles manufacturers    
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  • Opens up a new market for manufacturers, ie people who use a car too infrequently to own one
  • Allows the replacement of older vehicles with fewer newer vehicles
  • Demonstrates the use of Intelligent Technology Systems to drive environmental outcomes