• Brown Bag Luncheon
• Noon - 1:00 p.m.

We would like to invite you to a Transportation Research Forum-Chicago Chapter brown bag luncheon at noon on Thursday, June 23 at the DePaul Loop Campus.

Alice Bieszczat and I will present results of a new Chaddick Institute study on the growth of carsharing through organizations such as I-GO and Zipcar. We will review this rapidly changing carsharing organizations, which now have more than 500,000 members nationwide, and the detrimental effects that high taxation is having on the sector. In some cities, our study shows that consumers pay taxes as high as $5 per carsharing reservation. We plan to release the paper next Tuesday, June 21, and will have it posted on the Chaddick web site.

Ms. Bieszczat conducted the initial phase of the study on her own as part of her thesis project and was awarded a first-place award in the Transport Chicago student paper competition earlier this month. We congratulate Alice for this achievement!

Where: DePaul University School of Public Service
14 E. Jackson; Suite 1601 (a different room than our last event; this building is at the NE corner of State and Jackson)