Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits

Car sharing could support a transition away from private vehicle ownership and use. Attempts to understand participation in car have primarily focused on minor major disruptions which catalyse change practices. This paper examines how processes of entering, continuing or exiting systems unfold Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden UK. is conceptualised as an arrangement elements assembled, adjusted supported by events, practices habits. Drawing biographically-oriented household interviews, we build extend existing understandings stability four ways. First, focusing households rather than individual users, complements recent attempts decoupling family private-car-based mobility. Second, under-examined exiting, alongside entry continuation are considered. Third, it highlights importance recognising more imperceptible, gradual continuous changes might not necessarily coincide with disruptive event. Fourth, habits shared arrangements demonstrated be fragile deeply ingrained those associated ownership. Existing thus raise further questions about potential for mobility services disrupt primacy car.