Creating
a Sustainable Transportation &
Energy Vision for the 21st Century ROBIN CHASE AltWheels Regional Hero: Rethinking car use to improve roadway and airway conditions
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Hometown:
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Current and recent roles: Founder and CEO of GoLoco; member of Governor Deval
Patrick’s Transition Working Group for Transportation, Member of the
Cambridge Mayor’s Wireless Task Force; founder and CEO of Meadow Networks;
founder and CEO of Zipcar.
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Greening work:
For the last seven years, Robin has worked in the transportation sector
to reduce the impact of cars and reduce CO2 emissions in ways that people
embrace. She has founded and run two companies that reduce significantly
the environmental impact of cars. She consults internationally to government,
business, and non-government organizations about the role of the private
sector to address new mobility and wireless innovation for transportation.
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Current project: Building GoLoco and consulting in the areas of congestion pricing and
wireless technologies.
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Inspiration:
The beauty of the natural world and the deficits of our current mobility
options.
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Impact of work:
Zipcar is the largest car-sharing company in the world, replacing the
need for tens of thousands of cars to be bought and parked on city streets,
and vastly reducing the carbon footprint of its members. The results
of her policy recommendations and work can be felt in cities across
the country. She has inspired a new generation of environmental entrepreneurs.
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Economics of work: Robin’s work has been focused on creating sustainable systems that have
a strong value proposition for all parties, including Zipcar (which
provides all the benefits of personal-car ownership at a far lower cost
as well as congestion pricing, which creates a sustainable revenue stream
for public-infrastructure development) and GoLoco (which provides a
way to reduce immediately the costs of car travel).
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Useful websites: www.goloco.org; www.meadownetworks.com;
www.zipcar.com
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Recommended information resources: For practical traffic and demand-management ideas and
resources regarding what can be immediately done to reduce CO2 emissions
resulting from transportation and improve our lives, visit www.vtpi.org/tdm/index.php and http://ecoplan.org/ |
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