Introduction

Our project is to study the spatial pattern of how car-sharing companies locate their car share parking, and to determine the best locations for car companies to expand their network in other municipalities. The project was divided into two main parts. The first part was investigating the considerations that car-sharing companies make when locating their current parking locations. The result of this part gave us a list of criteria to use in the Multi-Criteria-Evaluation (MCE) in the next part of the project. In the second part, we will carry out an MCE using the factors we learned from part one. The result of our analysis shows the suitable locations for the car-share company expansion in Metro Vancouver and provides insight into the capability that GIS can achieve in analyzing current and future factors in the car-share economy.