Car

Edinburgh has a large number of black cab taxis and decent public transport. There's also carshare options from car pools to car share clubs and schemes.

Edinburgh Car Share

• Tripshare Edinburgh Edinburgh branch of UK National Liftshare site. Car pooling with people going your way. Free to use.
• Enterprise Car Club Formerly City Car Club, owned since 2015 by the Enterprise car rental company. Vehicles throughout Edinburgh and the UK which offers the convenience of easy access to a fleet of cars and other vans for shorter urban journeys such as shopping trips, without the bother of owning the car.
• Bla Bla Car Paid carpooling service linking passengers with drivers for trips around the UK.

Taxi

• City Cabs Black cabs, with its own app.
• Central Taxis

Ride-hailing apps

• Freenow BMW/Daimler owned taxi hailing app (formerly myTaxi).
• Gett Provides ride-hailing for black cabs.
• Uber Taxi like, app-based service Uber arrived in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2015.

Edinburgh Car Hire (includes minibus and van hire)

• Arnold Clark Car & Van Rental Scottish company offering reservations for car, van and minibus rentals across the U.K.
• Budget Car Hire Range of Edinburgh car rentals. 3,400 locations in over 128 countries.
• Alamo Car Hire International car rental firm with Edinburgh and Edinburgh airport locations.
• Sixt German car rental company with one branch at Edinburgh airport and three in the city centre.

Edinburgh Car Parking (including Edinburgh airport parking)

• Edinburgh City Council Parking Detailed parking information for visitors and residents from Edinburgh City Council including car parking fees, parking tickets and fines, resident's parking permits, impounded vehicles, Edinburgh parking zones and such like.
• Park and Ride Details of park and ride points around Edinburgh and beyond. 

Edinburgh Traffic Cams

Traffic Scotland, an arm of the Scottish government, maintains live web cams on key routes in and out of Edinburgh.

• Edinburgh to Glasgow Live traffic cams on the busy M8.
• Edinburgh Bypass Check cams on the ring road circling Edinburgh.
• Edinburgh to Berwick-on-Tweed Taking the A1 south? Check the live road cams here
• Edinburgh to Carlisle Live cams on the A68 and A7 on the road through the Borders.
• Edinburgh to Dunfermline Heading North? Live cams over the Forth Bridge on the M9 and M90 as far as Dunfermline.

General Motoring info

• Vehicle Checker for Scotland's Low Emissions Zones (active from 30 May in central Edinburgh)
• Traffic Scotland Latest reports on road and rail conditions
• UK Government The portal page on motoring in Britain.
• Car Fuel Data Stats on most economic vehicles in terms of fuel, car tax, and CO2 emissions from the Vehicle Certification Agency.

U.K.wide Car Sites

• DVLA Government site with info on car registration, road tax, driver licensing, and so on.