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March 2016
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to the March edition of our Global Carsharing Update.
Enjoy reading the interview with Mr. Bartolucci, responsible of the carsharing unit at Roma Servizi per la Mobilità S.r.l. Discover the sustainable mobility services of the Municipality of Rome, what's the role of carsharing in the city, and check other monthly updates from the global carsharing community.
Best regards,
Dr. Bodo Schwieger
CEO team red
Content:
Operators News - 3 questions for... - Conferences and Research
Operators News
car2go replaces EV fleet with gas-powered vehicles in San Diego (USA)
After 5 years of operations with all-electric fleet in San Diego, car2go has announced it will get rid of all of the electric Smart Fortwos and replace them with gasoline-powered cars beginning on the 1st of May. Less than half of the 1000 promised charging stations are not enough to maintain the EV fleet.
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Bollorè ready to launch e-carsharing in Turin (Italy)
Turin is the first Italian city chosen by the Bollorè Group to launch its electric carsharing. The aim is to bring 400 electric Bluecar vehicles and 700 charging stations in the city in the next 3 years.
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AWTO launches the first carsharing service in Santiago (Chile)
The AWTO project plans to start operations with 25 vehicles in Santiago in May, with the aim of expanding to the whole metropolitan area and other cities in Chile as soon as possible.
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Carrot with new on-street stations in Mexico City (Mexico)
Carrot, the carsharing service in Mexico City, began its on-street station program in Benito Juárez and Cuauhtémoc borough. The accessibility for carsharing is now improved with 54 new parking spaces.
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car2go reaches 100,000 members in Vancouver (Canada)
Vancouver, thanks also to its density, has become the first city in the world to exceed 100,000 car2go members. This means that one in six Vancouver residents now subscribe to car2go’s services.
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Jerusalem to implement a carsharing program (Israel)
The Municipality of Jerusalem has issued tenders for bike and carsharing projects. The tender for the carsharing program is an experimental one and the Israeli Car-to-Go is expected that will bid on it, along with other national, and possibly international competitors.
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BMW bringing DriveNow to Seattle (USA)
BMW is in the process of introducing its DriveNow carsharing service to Seattle, just three months after it suspended its service in San Francisco. DriveNow will now compete in the city with the successful car2go, which plans to increase the fleet with 250 more vehicles.
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Zipcar introduces new flexibility features (USA)
Zipcar members in Southern California can now enjoy greater freedom with one-way trips. Additional flexibility features allow users to change destinations mid-trip, and to extend reservations indefinitely mid-trip. The new flexibility service is currently available in the Southern California market, and will be rolled out to other North American cities throughout 2016.
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Carsharing with hydrogen vehicles in Aberdeen (UK)
Co-wheels and Aberdeen City Council has added two hydrogen fuel cell Hyundai ix35 SUVs to its car sharing programme. Along with the successful hydrogen bus project, the city of Aberdeen is moving ever closer to becoming a world-leading renewables city.
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South Korean carsharing to expand after new government regulations (South Korea)
The growing demand for improved accessibility and reliability has led the government to ease parking regulations and develop a real-time driver history verification system.
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3 questions for...
Roma Servizi per la Mobilità S.r.l. is the mobility agency of the Municipality of Rome and carsharing is one of its services. What is its position in the agency’s structure and how is it related to other services that you offer?
 Roma Servizi per la Mobilità S.r.l. (RSM), a company fully owned by the Municipality of Rome supplies several services for the Rome citizens, according to the service contract signed with the Municipality itself. Among these services there are the ones related with the development of Sustainable Mobility, like the following:
- Support to private companies that want to implement shuttle bus services for their employees, reducing the use of private cars, in order to access to the grants supplied by the Ministry of Environment;
- Design and deployment of the car pooling project for the city of Rome, through the creation of a dedicated website;
- Support to the activity of the Mobility managers, a role mandatory for any company with more than 300 employees, with the aim to enhance the sustainable mobility of the employees (more PT, bike, car pooling, etc).
RSM has built a special unit that follows the design, development and operations of carsharing service, that’s part of the efforts of RSM to push the sustainability agenda of the Municipality of Rome.
You have been in the market for many years now. How are you perceived by other carsharing operators in the city and what is your relationship with them?
 In Rome we are the only station-based operator, while there are two operators of free flow car sharing (Car2Go and ENJoy), with another one, fully electric, that’s going to start in the next weeks (Share’n’Go). While some of our customers use all of the other services, it seems that there is little overlap with the customer bases of the two systems (free-flow and station based), that aim indeed to different needs. In order to better understand the full picture, RSM is participating in a large project funded by the Ministry of Environment that aims to merge the data of all the operators of the sustainable mobility in Italy.
What is your most important management task in the next 12 months?
By the end of 2016 the service will add about 35 new parking areas with 50 cars more, reaching the near outskirts of the city and adding a 30% more capacity to the system. The challenge will be not only a matter of putting in sync the supply of the new cars and all the related technology in order to meet the time constraints, but to adapt to the new demand, with different needs compared to the ones of city center customers.
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Conferences and Research
team red's Study of Urban Carsharing: press release
One of the most detailed studies of carsharing impacts ever performed, was jointly conducted by team red, the Technische Universität Dresden and Omnitrend for the City of Munich. It shows that carsharing offers significant benefits to cities.
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team red’s Global Carsharing Operators Report 2015 is here!
team red’s annual report on carsharing business, based on a comprehensive database of operators has just been released. If you are interested in receiving a free copy, please contact us by email.
ESPRIT carsharing system: video published
The ESPRIT vehicle and carsharing system is currently being developed on the Horizon 2020 ESPRIT project by a consortium led by le Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA). team red is partner of the consortium and responsible for the development of the business case model during the three years' project period.
Video (Youtube)
Apr. 2016: Mobility in Italy - Moving Ahead
The international congress and exhibition on urban mobility will be held in Milan (Italy) on April 28-29, 2016.
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Jun. 2016: mobil.TUM 2016 - Transforming Urban Mobility
mobil.TUM 2016 will be held in Munich (Germany) on June 1-2, 2016.
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Sep. 2016: 4th World Collaborative Mobility Congress
The international platform for innovative mobility solutions promoting the sharing of vehicles, rides and infrastructure is set: wocomoco 2016 will be held in Warsaw (Poland) on September 7-8, 2016
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