What: Researchers, project partners and participants will demonstrate CarLink: A Smart Car-Sharing System for news media. Learn how 60 Bay Area residents will try to leave their personal cars in the garage for the next year and instead share the use of 12 automobiles in the largest, most technically sophisticated test of car sharing in the United States. When: 10 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, Feb. 2 Where: Dublin/Pleasanton BART station parking lot Visuals: CarLink vehicles will be available for media to see, photograph and drive. CarLink project officials and participants will be available for interviews. Smart key cards, key boxes and on-board tracking units will be demonstrated. Background: The goal of CarLink is to learn whether people in this region can make car sharing work for commuting and running errands. CarLink is a research project of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Partners in government and private industry include American Honda Motor Company Inc., the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the California Department of Transportation. Drivers have been recruited from residents of San Francisco and the East Bay. CarLink combines the newest technology for managing reservations and tracking vehicles with car-sharing features proved in Europe, where more than 200 such organizations have more than 100,000 members. The vehicles in the project are ultra-low emissions Honda Civics powered by compressed natural gas. Directions Take BART to the Dublin/Pleasanton station and walk to the and parking: south parking lot. Or drive east on Interstate 580 to the Hopyard Road exit in Dublin. Travel south (right) on Hopyard to Owens Drive. Turn left (east) on Owens and travel to the Willow Road intersection. Turn left at Willow Road into the BART parking lot. Inside the lot, turn right and enter the roped-off area.