Daily+Blog

Monday Feb 20

 * MSPI Thesis presentations.
 * Tony contributes to our wiki

Wednesday Feb 15
What role will P2P car sharing play in sustainable mobility or in the transition towards it? || 
 * Still doing lots of reading - with a hint of writing. We're working on completing our introduction, setting the context(s) and our literature review
 * Took part in the 'Live chat: The Future of Transportation - Radically Different' hosted by Greg Rucks and [|Robert Hutchinson] of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
 * My question:
 * 11:04 ||<  ||   || Comment From Mark
 * 11:04 ||< @ Mark P2P can play a very important role in transportation by providing efficient means for people to share rides via smartphones and smarter onboard communcations on future vehicles. By having constant awareness of where cars are going, people would be able to coordinate their trips. By combining that with a yet more sophisticated system of intermodal travel, the transportation system could become even more efficient. ||
 * We asked more questions, but they haven't been answered, we'll see if they get to them after the live session - []

Tuesday Feb 14

 * Elbows deep in the literature review.
 * Finding lots of good stuff about future mobility systems, sharing economy / collaborative consumption and B2C car sharing, but there's not so much in the way of P2P specific academic research. Please let us know of any good resources!

Monday Feb 13

 * On our way back from Finland, we made a pit stop in Stockholm to meet with the 2 co-founders, Magnus and Ahmed, of Sweden's P2P car sharing platform - [] . We had a productive meeting with them, and we left with loads of good info.

Tuesday Feb 7 - Friday Feb 10

 * Aaron and I have been silent lately because we were attending the ServDes conference ([]) in Helsinki, Finland. We met a lot of interesting people, heard some great lectures and participated in lots of workshops. It was good 3 days - full of post it notes and buzz words.

Monday Feb 6

 * Contacted several P2P car sharing platforms to see if they would like to collaborate with us. In particular we were hoping they would be able to gain a better understanding of user needs. And also identify the barriers to faster and wider adoption of P2P car sharing. Here's a list of the companies I e-mailed:
 * Relay Rides (US), WhipCar (UK), JustShareIt (US), BuzzCar (France), Commuauto (Canada), SnappCar (Netherlands), RentMyCar (Germany and US)
 * We've also previously had contact with Getaround (US) and Flexidrive (Sweden) and they were positive, so hopefully we'll be able to work with them.

Friday Feb 3 - and the weekend

 * Lots of reading

Thursday Feb 2
- Met with advisors - Whiteboarded

Wednesday Feb 1
- Read two articles by Martin and Shaheen (Aaron) - Email exchanges with Tobias and Tony (BTH staff), Susan Shaheen

Tuesday Jan 31
- Contacted John Nash - Emailed Getaround with more more formal MOU proposal - Mapped out weekly work schedule

Monday Jan 30
- Program meeting with staff - Notified about who our shadow group and advisors are - Whiteboarded

Sunday Jan 29
Returned from trip to Berlin; which is where we to celebrate Mark's birthday having submitted our thesis proposal the previous Wednesday