The work was seen to include a number of tasks:

• To identify through a literature review (plus correspondence and phone calls) examples of schemes overseas and identify the factors underlying their success of failure.
• To assess the scope of car sharing and car clubs for improving personal access to jobs, goods and services (with particular attention paid to the implications for rural area and minority groups, including young drivers, those with mobility problems and ethnic communities).
• To identify barriers to further take-up and effective development in England and recommend measures to encourage further schemes in ways which support the Government's integrated transport and sustainable development objectives.
• To consider the financial implications of such schemes, with particular emphasis on any cost savings to users of such schemes should they give up ownership of a car but also including any other affected groups, such as public transport operators.
• To consider the scope for pilot projects or demonstration studies and provide recommendations for further work to identify schemes which might be promoted by DTLR and/or The Motorists' Forum.