In May 2015 GoGet announced Oneway carshare service, a first for Australia.
To date, carshare has involved returning a vehicle to its original pickup point; Oneway, however, will permit drivers to pickup a car and then leave it at or near their destination. The service will be rolled out in select locations over the coming months, including major airports.
“Imagine being able to arrive at the airport, hop into a carshare vehicle, drop it off in the city and then forget about it. That’s what Oneway can offer,” said Tristan Sender, CEO of GoGet carshare.
Sender said Oneway was designed with business needs in mind. Organisational use has grown rapidly in recent months. He said many medium to large businesses are now using carshare and giving up their fleet cars as a result. Oneway increases travel flexibility, but still ensures that drivers have a designated parking place to drop their vehicle at the end of their trip.
Sender said that the technology and logistics behind Oneway are complex and there will be a learning process to determine how the new service will work best for all its members. GoGet currently has a network of 1,800 vehicles and over 65,000 members across Australia.
“We are always looking for ways to make transport great. Oneway is part of GoGet’s commitment to transport innovation, like our ongoing work with UNSW on driverless cars,” Sender said. “Community and business integration is our lifeblood. We want to learn how oneway will perform in real-time and on Australian roads.”
“Oneway carhsare is an exciting next step, and fits with some of the progress we have made on the driverless car project over the past several months,” said Vinayak Dixit, Deputy Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI).
The Oneway trial also follows on the heels of GoGet’s launch of the Central Park “SuperPod” last May which saw the largest cluster of carshare vehicles in Australia to be housed at the $2 billion development in Chippendale.
“The SuperPod underscored how carshare is becoming an important part of many Australians’ lives and is now front of mind for most residential developers. This is all part of building smarter cities that will improve everyone’s lives. We are enthusiastic about oneway’s potential to deliver another important transport option,” said Sender.
