Carpooling touts the greener and more sociable option for travel

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Germany-based Carpooling, a Europe-wide car-sharing service for travellers.

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Examining new accessibility standards for travel websites and self-service kiosks

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The US Department of Transportation is proposing to implement a series of new rules around accessibility to air travel information.

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Collaborative consumption model drives a new wave of travel products

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We’ve heard a lot about the rise of collaborative consumption over the last few years and Rachel Botsman’s book What’s Mine is Yours is one of the best pieces on the subject.

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Car rental gets sexier via mobile apps and GPS technology, interest in self-service grows

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Economic woes and environmental concerns driving consumers to seek out more practical solutions to owning a car

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TLabs Reprise – Cost2Drive 12 months on

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Cost2Drive is a US-based planning service for those using a vehicle for a trip, first featured on Tnooz in March 2010. What happened in the intervening 12 months?

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TLabs Showcase – GoScopia

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel services and transportation platform GoScopia.

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CarTrawler takes in new investment, shuffles executive pack

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Ireland-based car hire distribution system CarTrawler has confirmed it is looking to offload a share of the company to help fund its next period of growth.

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Imagine how easy reverse parking a rental car would be with this

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Reverse parking for many motorists is not a particularly easy task – but then put someone in an unfamiliar vehicle when on holiday and it can be even trickier.

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Fuel calculator added to Google Maps in the UK

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UK users of Google Maps appear to be the first to see a new feature which calculates the cost of fuel for a journey by road vehicles – an ideal feature for car hire users.

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Perhaps not the best week to launch a Cairo taxi iPhone app

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Spare a thought for HoodHot, a San Francisco-based mobile travel app developer which saw the big launch of its new Cairo taxi guide this week somewhat overshadowed.

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