Flexcar is an American vehicle subscription company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Flexcar revolutionizes the concept of car ownership by offering flexible, monthly subscriptions to a wide array of vehicles, without requiring any down payments. This service is available in several major regions, including the greater areas of Boston, MA, Providence, RI, Stamford, CT, Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, and Charlotte, NC, with plans for further expansion.

Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile. Metro, the metropolitan area's regional government, has a regional master plan in which transit-oriented development plays a major role. This approach, part of the new urbanism, promotes mixed-use and high-density development around light rail stops and transit centers, and the investment of the metropolitan area's share of federal tax dollars into multiple modes of transportation. In the United States, this focus is atypical in an era when automobile use led many areas to neglect their core cities in favor of development along interstate highways, in suburbs, and satellite cities.Portland is "an international pioneer in transit orientated developments."