In-depth: how the business of car *** enjoyment is actually developing internationally

Auto***sharing, as a new way of using cars, can actually be seen as a new type of car rental. However, compared to traditional car rental, car ***sharing is much more flexible in terms of time and location, and it is generally used to book vehicles with the help of smartphone apps and self-service car rental through membership cards with electronic sensors, so it is much more convenient than traditional car rental, and is more likely to be a substitute for the private car. Here we will analyze what types of cars **** enjoy internationally, what kind of charging methods are used, what advantages and disadvantages compared to other modes of transportation, and what kind of people and environment they are suitable for.

I. Different types of car ****sharing

(1) Divided according to the source of vehicles

According to the source of vehicles, car ****sharing can be divided into four categories:

The first category is independent car ****sharing services.

The nature of this type of service is very much like that of a general car rental company, which chooses the right car model based solely on market demand and then purchases it from the car manufacturer. Of course, because cars are generally used for short distances, the demand for models is not quite the same as traditional car rental on a daily or even weekly or monthly basis. Zipcar, the most famous car rental company, falls into this category. In addition to car ****sharing providers that exist solely as rental car companies, some of these services are provided by other organizations, and there are a few more:

City government agencies provide them, thus addressing the need for public cars for civil servants and providing a benefit to low-income people in the city (at a lower fee compared to for-profit companies), such as the San Francisco Bay Area's CityCarShare.

Provided by universities. On some very large campuses, it addresses the need for official university vehicles (for short business trips or to travel between campuses) while providing a viable form of public **** transportation that avoids the exhaust fumes, high cost of parking, and traffic jams that come with every student having to buy a car, and also reduces the financial burden on students. UC Irvine, located in one of the nation's most prestigious large suburbs, offers such a service.

Rail transit operators offer it. For some intercity and commuter train operators, because the stations are not as dense as subways, and because many of the areas they pass through are low-density suburbs that are some distance from passengers' homes, but where public ****transit and cabs may be inconvenient, it is often necessary to provide a lot of parking to allow people to drive to the station if they want to attract more passengers, but this is too expensive on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can result in a loss of opportunity to develop commercial and residential areas around the stations. opportunities to develop commercial and residential areas around the station. If short-term rental services are also offered at the station, this problem can be solved relatively inexpensively by generating revenue through car***sharing and attracting more passengers. Germany's car ****enjoyment service, Flinkster, is provided by Deutsche Bahn.

The second category is the car ****sharing service provided by traditional car rental companies.

In many Western countries, except for airport stores, most service outlets of traditional car rental companies do not operate 7x24 hours, and are only open from 9 to 5 on weekdays, only in the morning on Saturdays, and are simply closed on Sundays. However, most of the demand for rental cars is concentrated on weekends, making it inconvenient to pick up and return cars. This makes it often necessary for car rental companies to introduce some weekend rental programs from Friday to Monday for three days in a row, so as to attract customers.

After the concept of car ****enjoyment became popular, many large traditional car rental companies also began to offer self-service hourly rentals in the parking lots of their own rental outlets, such as Enterprise with WeCar, Hertz with Hertz on-demand, and Uhaul, a company that rents out pickups, vans and trailers for moving purposes, also offers Uhaul Car. Uhaul, a company that rents out pickup trucks, vans and trailers for moving purposes, also offers Uhaul Car Share for short-distance moving needs), which is the same car ****-enjoyment service as Zipcar. In addition, in addition to operating their own car ****sharing services, many small rental car companies choose car ****sharing service platforms, such as justshareit, to provide their own empty vehicles as car ****sharing services, to collect more revenue, and free from the development of their own car ****sharing apps, to install their own electronic equipment and other costs, and do not need to worry about the scale of the operation of the problem. and not worrying about the problem of insufficient scale of operation.

Traditional car rental companies that also do car ****enjoyment have several benefits:

Solve the labor problem of providing car rental services on weekends.

In most Western countries, hiring labor on weekends is restricted by labor laws and is generally particularly costly. With car ****enjoyment services, there is no such problem because it is a self-service car rental.

Car rental companies can make much better use of vehicle availability.

With per diem rentals, many times a car will have hours of free space between the front and back bookings, and other times there will be a few hours of temporary free time due to vehicle deployment issues. Because car ****enjoyment is an hourly rental for a much shorter period of time, the car rental company is able to rent out all of these hours.

In terms of car models the two services form complementary.

There are some models in the fleet of car rental companies, such as microcars and minivans, which most car rental companies still need to offer, on the one hand, as a means of differential pricing to increase revenue, to attract some customers who are particularly sensitive to price and gas mileage, and at the same time to keep the starting price of the overall service down, and on the other hand some customers, because of the ease of parking, easy access to drilling alleys, and other reasons, prefer to for small cars. However, it's harder to rent them out on a traditional day-by-day basis.

This is because customers who rent cars by the day are mainly divided into two categories: business travelers, who are not price-sensitive because they can be reimbursed for their expenses; and friends traveling with friends, who have a higher demand for space. Generally, they will choose a compact model or above. But these models because of low fuel consumption, cheap, it is very suitable for 1-2 people mainly short distance car, and gas and insurance included in the rental cost of the car **** enjoy services. So when these models can't be rented out, at the same time, they can be listed on the Auto***Help website. Similarly the average car **** enjoy service rarely offers some mid-size sedan and SUV options, and traditional car rental companies can also use the time when these cars are not rented out for the car **** enjoy service.

The third category is rental car services offered by automakers.

This type of car ****enjoyment service is provided by car manufacturers who have set up subsidiaries, the most typical examples being Mercedes-Benz's car2go and BMW's drivenow. The advantage of car manufacturers providing their own car rental services is that they can publicize their car models by parking a large number of their own vehicles in the city, and at the same time, allowing a lot of people to experience their own models in depth easily, which has the effect of publicizing their own models. The advantage of offering car rental services is that the manufacturers can promote their models by parking their vehicles in large numbers in the city and allowing many people to experience their models in depth. It is also easier to maintain and service the vehicles because they are all manufactured in-house.

The fourth category is the short-term rental of cars through the private vehicles of the general public. This model is more in line with the original meaning of 'car ****sharing'. If my family's car is idle a lot of the time, I can rent it out through this kind of car rental platform. For car owners, they can earn a profit. For consumers, there is a wider range of locations, car models and price ranges, and representative companies include Justshareit, Turo, and FlightCar, but Turo only offers per-day rentals like traditional car rental companies. The latter provides a day-by-day rental service mainly at airports, so that car owners can drive their own cars on airplanes and park them at the FlightCar parking lot next to the airport, avoiding the high parking fees at airports for many days and not having to consider very expensive cabs in the U.S. or **** ride on the shuttle buses. FlightCar then rents out the car using the time before the owner returns. But both of these, since neither offers short-term rentals, don't fall into the category of what is generally known today as car ****sharing, and only justshareit can be categorized under that.

(2) By pickup and return mode

According to the limitation of picking up and returning the car, the car***sharing can be divided into two categories:

The first category is that each car has a fixed parking spot, and after picking up the car from one place, it must be returned to the original location like the traditional car rental. This model is also known as Stationed Car Sharing or Round-trip Car Sharing. Stationed parking comes in several forms:

Car rental company parking lots, traditional car rental companies offer car ****sharing, generally utilizing their own parking lots. enterprise, Hertz, and Uhaul's hourly rentals all do this.

2. Parking near rail stations. Deutsche Bahn's Flinkster is a form of this.

3. street parking or parking in basements or cubicles purchased by rental car companies from city governments, commercial parking lots, and condo companies. zipcar, and Mercedes-Benz's luxury car ****enjoyment service, Car2Go Black, are all forms of this. That way other regular cars can't park here either.

4. Private parking.

Something like Justshareit is pretty self-explanatory, since it's a private vehicle, of course it's parked in a private parking space (or of course, it could just be parked in a public ****ing street parking space). However, there are also car ****shareit companies whose own vehicles use private parking spaces to provide services. The most representative example of this model is Germany's citeecar, which, in addition to becoming a member who just uses the car like any other company, also gives you the option of becoming a host if you have your own parking space (e.g., an assigned parking space in your neighborhood), contributing your own parking space to citeecar for the provision of the car**** service, and then in return you don't have to pay a yearly/monthly fee. pay an annual/monthly fee, and in the meantime you can use the car for a certain number of miles or hours per month for free.

The second type of free-floor parking is the one where you don't have a fixed parking spot, and you can return the car and park it in any public **** parking space in a certain area of the city. It is also called Free-floating car sharing, or one-way car sharing, where users can pick up a car at point A and return it to point B.

This is the first type of car sharing where the user has to park at a public parking space in a certain area of the city.

This makes car use a lot more flexible. I can take public transportation to the supermarket, and when I'm done shopping, because I'm tired of carrying so much stuff on public transportation, I can rent a car nearby, and then drive to my neighborhood and return it home. I can also drive from my home to a place to do business, the car has been returned in the process of doing business, and then come out to rent a car again. This can be a huge cost savings. However, if the place I want to go is not within the service area (home area for car2go, business area for Drivenow), then I can also drive back to the service area after I finish my errands, just like a regular car***. Generally speaking, the charging method of this mode of operation is different from that of fixed parking space, which is more flexible in terms of hourly rate by minute, but the average price is more expensive. If you get out of the car to do business, but because it is outside the service area, or leave a shorter period of time, leaving the car out is more convenient, you can also choose to lock the car at the same time do not return the vehicle, which is a lower price per minute.

In addition, this mode of booking the vehicle can go to the car visa-free and then booked, booked in advance, if you can only book 15 minutes in advance, so you can basically guarantee that at any time to use the car (of course, because of the parking spot is not fixed, booked in advance does not make sense). And unlike fixed car **** enjoy because of open advance booking, in high demand hours (such as weekend nights) with a car often need to book a few days in advance, the flexibility is greatly reduced.

To realize this mode of operation car **** enjoy the company needs to sign an agreement with the entire city, its vehicles can be in the time-limited parking in the public *** street parking or parking lot can be unrestricted, need to pay the meter where the user does not have to pay for their own, by the company according to the total number of vehicles in the city together with the total cost.

car2go and Drivenow are both such models. car2go's advantage is that they all use smart For two, a small car that saves far more parking space than a regular car, which reduces the amount of money paid to the government for parking; Drivenow's advantage is that all of its models have the idrive multimedia system that adds a voice prompt to enter the service area where the car can be returned. The driverow has the advantage that all of its models have added the ability to enter the returnable car service area with automatic voice prompts.

The map below shows the distribution of DriveNow vehicles in Hamburg, Germany, with the service area in green.

(3) Vehicle Types

The company's fleet can be divided into three categories

The first category is a mixed fleet of vehicles. zipcar is a mixed fleet of vehicles, which means that they have all kinds of cars. It means any kind of car. Cars **** enjoy the highest demand models are generally small cars and compact cars, but sometimes users are moving or transporting bikes to ride the mountains, so generally also offer a choice of vans and pickup trucks. Additionally in the higher end areas of some major cities, car ****sharing users don't have low incomes, they just don't have the option to buy a car because they don't need one most of the time, or parking is too expensive, or too congested, and these users may favor some of the compacts and mid-size luxury sedans. Also, since car ****enjoyment is usually a short distance 1-2 person car, there tends to be a market for some civilian sports cars as well. Below is a list of Zipcar's models in Los Angeles:

Model list for City Car Club in the UK

The second category: models of a particular brand. Because the purpose is to advertise their brand and to reduce the difficulty of maintenance, all the models of BMW's DriveNow are produced by BMW or Mini. Of course, the models used are also mainly those suitable for enjoyment as car ****.

The Netherlands' Greenwheels also uses all Volkswagen vehicles in order to reduce the cost of purchasing and maintaining a car, namely the Mini UP! for short distances for less than two people, the Golf for four people and long distances, and the Caddy for transporting goods.

The third category: single or limited models

Because in reality, most of the car *** enjoyment users probably don't care much about what model they rent, as long as it's inexpensive, densely and widely distributed, and the ride quality isn't too bad, so there are many companies that choose a single or limited number of the most suitable models so that they can both standardize pricing and minimize the difficulty of maintenance.

As for the model of choice, Mercedes-Benz's car2go is, naturally, the Smart For Two, and in some areas an electric version of the Smart ED is also available.

Fixed-site Car2Go Black is the Mercedes-Benz B-Class

Also in Germany, CiteeCar is the Kia Rio (K2), and has since added the Toyota Yaris.

The characteristics of car **** enjoyment are very suitable for electric cars: short distances so you do not have to worry about running out of power, and the program can show the remaining mileage of the vehicle, and if it is a fixed site you do not have to worry about the charging facilities. That's why there are many services that have chosen electric cars. For example, France's Autolib all use a small electric car called Bolloré Bluecar, which is designed by the company itself in contact with the Pinin Farina, and at the same time by Cecomp OEM production.

Toyota, for its part, has teamed up with rental-car company Park24 in Japan to launch a car ****-enjoyment service that uses Toyota's up-and-coming electric three-wheeler, the i-Road, which has a top speed of just 60 kilometers per hour, a range of 50 kilometers, and can only take one adult, making it unsuitable for the average homeowner's car, but very space-efficient for use in the densely packed cities of Japan and the narrow streets of Europe's historic towns. But in the dense cities of Japan and the narrow streets of Europe's historic cities, it's a great space saver.

Second, the way to charge

The basic way to charge for a car*** is by the minute or by the hour, and this charge also includes the basic insurance fee, and most of the companies also include the fuel fee (using the fuel card carried in the car to refuel at the cooperative gas station), and some of them even include the road tolls and the bridge tolls (through the on-board ETC payment). Parking fees are also included in the case of free-floating ones. Then there are different hourly/minutely rates depending on the model and the time of the rental, with weekends generally being a bit more expensive. However, there are a few companies that have a fee levied based on mileage driven in addition to the time fee. The mileage fee may be levied after a certain number of miles, or it may be incurred as long as the car is used, and compounded with the time charge to become the total price. At the same time, many companies offer discount packages, such as hourly rates that offer a discounted rate for daily rentals, so that they can compete directly with traditional car rental companies. Those that charge by the minute and by the mile offer a two-hour discount, while those that charge by the day offer a discounted rate that includes more miles.

Many companies also offer the option to pay a membership fee, which can result in lower rates if you're willing to pay a flat fee every year or month, or offer extras such as upgrading your insurance from basic (which covers you if you're responsible for a crash, but is capped and the insurer pays for the excess) to full deductible coverage.

In addition to this, there are a number of other services that are available.

In addition, because of the need for a membership profile to receive an electronic membership card or key, most companies have a one-time application fee. Of course, in the early stages many companies will waive the application fee, thus opening up the market quickly.

Third, the target customer analysis of Auto***Hang

Auto***Hang is targeting at the demand of short-time self-driving, and here is a simple analysis. It can be seen that the target users of Auto***Hang have a great overlap with cabs.

Private customers

Students, young people and low-income people who can't afford to buy or keep a car, but can drive and need a car occasionally

Tourists who just need a short drive occasionally. For example, in some seaside cities, the beachside resorts are far away from the city center, and tourists coming for vacation spend most of their time in the tourist areas around their hotels, but may be willing to spend two hours one night to go to the city center, which is a little farther away, to do a little shopping.

Central city residents, although they can afford a car, but there is no place to park it, and most of the time it is easy to travel by bus or by cab, so they choose not to buy a car. But the occasional need to go to the supermarket to make a big purchase, or to go to the suburbs where public transportation is not convenient, will need a car.

Commuters who usually commute to work by public ****transportation, but occasionally want to go to a place where it is inconvenient to take public transportation for lunch.

Families who only need one car most of the time, but occasionally the other member of the couple will need a second car to transport the kids or run errands.

Individuals or families who have a regular family car, but occasionally need a pickup truck or large mpv to transport things, or a smart to go to particularly congested places, or an upscale sedan for occasions.

Automobile enthusiasts who like to try out different types of cars through car ****enjoyment.

Institutional customers

Car ****sharing can also enter into cooperation with some organizations, where the organization provides the parking space, and the car ****sharing service provider provides some models and a more favorable price, so that the organization solves the demand for official cars, and the service provider expands the market.

There are some organizations that have several office locations in a city, and there is no convenient public **** transportation to and from them, but the frequency and number of people going back and forth is not suitable for the opening of the shuttle bus, so they can cooperate with the car **** enjoy the company, set up one or two cars in several locations, which is equivalent to a kind of public **** transportation services, and then the organization reimburses the cost of using the car. The agency itself saves itself the trouble of buying and maintaining a bus, and because all car use is recorded, it avoids the difficulty of regulating private use of public vehicles.

While many employees drive to work, sometimes it may not be appropriate to drive a particular employee's personal vehicle for a midday departmental gathering or a short business trip for several people to another organization in the same city. And the total amount of this demand is not enough to justify the purchase of a bus by the organization. This can be done by utilizing existing car ****sharing sites near the company and renting a car for use through the organization's account. Or it could also partner with a car***sharing company by providing parking spaces, where the car***sharing company could utilize the free spaces and expand its services throughout the area, while the agency gets a better price for the car.

There are several cities where the organization's employees often go on business trips where there is a well-established network of ****-enabled cars, and at the same time, it is cheaper and more convenient than renting a car on a daily basis (e.g., if there is a free-floating car ****-enabled service in several cities, and at the same time, the time that the actual need to drive every day is not very long), it is possible to enter into a partnership with the car ****-enabled service provider to offer lower prices.

Fourth, and other modes of transportation

Compared with the traditional car rental by the day the advantages:

For a short period of time to drive the needs of travel, such as weekend evening entertainment, or supermarket purchases, the cost is lower.

Traditional car rental companies need to offer all their vehicles in a few centralized locations, whereas car ****share can spread out each vehicle and thus be closer to the user.

The rental procedure is easy, with the mobile app operating and then picking up the car with an electronic key. And because you rent as you go, you're better able to meet the need for frequent rentals.

Pickup and return are not restricted by business hours.

Free-floating cars*** can be picked up and returned to different locations, while traditional car rentals, even if possible, tend to be costly.

No need to buy extra insurance, gasoline, and even sometimes include parking fees and tolls, for the consumer price is more transparent and more hassle-free.

Disadvantage:

It is more cost effective to rent a car by the day for a single long trip.

There are fewer models available in the same location.

Because there is an application fee, membership fee, and often a stipulation that only the member who booked the car can drive it, unlike traditional car rental companies where additional drivers can easily be added.

Because there are membership and application fees, it is often necessary to choose a service to use, unlike traditional car rental where you can choose a different service provider each time.

Advantages over cabs:

Because cabs are generally priced by mileage, whereas car ****enjoyment is priced by time, it's less costly for car trips that are farther away but shorter, such as driving the highway to make a purchase at the grocery store.

Autos*** enjoy a huge cost advantage in places where labor costs are relatively expensive, cars are relatively cheap, and most people will drive themselves.

Because it doesn't need an extra driver and can carry 1 extra person.

***Helpful cars are in park when not in use, with no idle time at all, reducing congestion and pollution.

Disadvantage:

May be more expensive than a cab for relatively short but longer car trips.

Need to drive yourself, not as comfortable as a cab.

Not available to those without a driver's license, not available at all to people with behavioral disorders who can't get a driver's license, children, and the elderly.

You still need to pick up the car from the parking spot yourself, whereas cabs can be hailed online or by phone, or by waiting at the curb to raise a flag.

In case of fixed location car **** enjoyment, the time car in the process of arriving at the destination for shopping and entertainment is wasted, while the cab can serve the next user.

The end of the journey is restricted. Regular car***sharing requires a return to the pickup point, and free-flowing car***sharing requires a return to the service area.

Parking needs to be found around the destination. Cabs, on the other hand, can just drive away.

Taxis can enable passengers with different starting and ending points to carpool and ride together, and the process can be convenient and efficient with mobile internet and smartphones (e.g., UberPool), but car***sharing can't, and it has to be the same user who rents and returns the car.

Because car ****sharing users need to drive their own cars, they can generally only accept models that are easier to drive and have better handling qualities and safety, and because they want to ensure reliability during the driving process, they mostly use new cars. While cabs are driven entirely by professional drivers themselves, you can use manual transmission models, old cars, usually can be by the driver's own attention to vehicle maintenance, in case of problems in the middle of the car needs to be repaired, but also not as serious as the car **** enjoy problems.

Advantages compared to buying a private car:

The cost of using a car***share is linked to the amount of usage, so if you use the car less, the car***share is more economical.

No need to worry about repairs and maintenance of the vehicle, no need to pay for parking, gas and insurance.

When moving long distances you can choose to have things mailed and people flown there. But if you own a private car, you either need to drive long distances for many days, which is costly and fatiguing, or you need to sell the car and buy another one, which loses money and consumes a lot of energy.

Choosing a car ****enjoys the opportunity to experience a wider variety of models.

Car***share companies are constantly replacing their cars with new ones, which is faster compared to private cars.

Disadvantages:

It is cheaper to buy a car if you use it more.

Ownership of a car in itself will bring happiness to the owner and may be a symbol of social status.

Buying a private car allows you to choose your own favorite model, either new or used, a big fuel-intensive car or a small fuel-efficient car, depending on your income level and usage.

You can modify the car or store some frequently used things in the car, such as bottled water, jackets, change of shoes and so on.

Private cars don't have to be shared with others.

Advantages over public ****transportation:

Cars ****enjoy the use of smaller vehicles that are generally more comfortable than buses.

There is privacy.

***Helpful cars can carry more cargo and luggage. In contrast, with the exception of a few airport and train station lines, all luggage on public **** transportation can only be hand-held or carried.

Self-driving cars are generally faster than public **** transportation, except in high-density areas with bus rapid transit and rail.

Public **** transportation generally relies on the government to provide it, and public **** agencies can be less efficient in their operations. Even many bus routes are inherently unprofitable and require taxpayer subsidies.

Car ****enjoyment initial investment is small, forming the service is easy, although there are also advantages of forming a network after the scale is large, for example, it can be realized free-mobile car ****enjoyment, but the beginning stage of a neighborhood as long as there is a car can also make this one neighborhood residents can easily reach a large area. Public **** transportation, on the other hand, is a very expensive hardware investment, and if there aren't enough buses, wait times can be long.

Car ****enjoyment can set up services based only on the distribution of the user's trip starting point, e.g., by simply setting up a vehicle in a downtown residential area, the user can reach a suburban shopping center on his or her own. But in the case of public *** transportation, not only does the starting point of the user's trip need to be on a bus route, but the end point also needs to be on a bus route.

The placement of car***sharing vehicles can be decided directly on the basis of the total demand in this one area, and the number of vehicles demanded and the total number of cars used are basically linearly related. However, because the newly added public **** transportation services not only serve the existing demand, but also will bring new demand, and public **** transportation has a network utility, the level of service provided is not directly proportional to the input, relatively difficult to plan.

Car **** enjoy the flexibility of the service point set up, do not need to be like bus stops, strung together into a line.

Auto***Hang can change service locations more easily. When demand drops in one area and rises in another, simply change parking spaces. Public transit, on the other hand, involves rearranging route maps, frequency schedules, scheduling driver hours, advertising to the public, and changing signs. In the case of rail transit, it would require a complete rebuild.

Disadvantages:

Public **** transportation can be cheaper if there are enough users, while bringing less pollution and energy consumption.

Car ***sharing causes more road congestion and takes up more parking spaces than public **** transportation.

If public ****transit is not congested, it may be easier and less labor-intensive for some people than driving their own cars. The time spent on public **** transportation could also be utilized for reading, talking, entertainment, etc.

People with behavioral disabilities who are not capable of driving, children, and the elderly cannot use car ****enjoyment.

Can't create a public **** space like public **** transportation does, making it possible for various groups in society to have a chance to engage with each other.

Fifth, suitable for the development of car **** enjoyment of the region

Based on the above examination of car **** enjoyment of the target users and comparative advantages, can be analyzed that car **** enjoyment of the service is more suitable to carry out in the following areas:

Higher labor costs, but the cost of the vehicle is relatively low in the region.

For medium-density cities, exclusively public transportation may require high subsidies due to insufficient passenger flow, and exclusively private cars may cause congestion, and the development of ****-enjoyment cars can be used as a supplement to public ****-transportation and private cars, which is more suitable for medium-density areas.

Cities have high density city centers with well-developed public **** transportation. However, relatively low-density suburbs exist on the outskirts of the city with poor public **** transportation, and residents of the city center need to drive occasionally.

Because the city is too large or poorly planned, public **** transportation is too slow, but for various reasons there is no rapid public **** transportation such as subways, or if there is, it is not convenient enough, resulting in the lack of a car in the city inch by inch, but there are also a significant number of residents who are unable to buy a private car for various reasons.

University towns that are located in the suburbs and have relatively inconvenient public **** transportation.

When commuter trains or regional express railroads pass through low-density areas that lack feeder buses, car **** enjoyment can be opened near the station to address the last few kilometers of transportation needs from the station to the destination.

Some resort cities where tourist areas and city centers are far away and public **** transportation to and from the city is inconvenient. For example, some beach towns where tourists spend most of their time at the beach, but occasionally need to commute between the city center and the beach. ***A car can be cheaper, faster and more comfortable than public transportation, and more economical than renting a car for several days in a row.