OFMN Webinar #2New mobility concepts for new urbanites

“Organizing carsharing to reduce car usage”Monday 13th February 2012 – 17h00 CET

David Van Kesteren (Coordinator, Taxistop - cambio)

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Brussels capital of traffic jams

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Taxistop organized several projects to reduce dense traffic

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Dense traffic in city centers: solutions?

Taxistop: “How to convince people not to buy a car?”:

- Purchase of a car = biggest cost- Car OWNERSHIP increases car use and reduces public

transport use- CarSHARING can force a mind change: “Use of car is a choice for carsharers, not a reflex”

Therefore Taxistop invested a lot in carsharing.

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Carsharing in Brussels today

- 229 cars- 83 stations- > 7750 users

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Carsharing in Belgium today

23 cities191 stations446 cars>13500 users

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What is carsharing?

Different types of cars available for a group of users on different locations in several cities

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1. Join cambio

How does it work?

Every customer gets a cambio card

• 24h/24 and 7d/7 – service• by telephone or online

2. Make a reservation

3. Start a cambio car

Advantages of carsharing?

• Pay only when you use a car: financially interesting if you need a car only occasionally!

• Easy and no worries: no annual maintenance, technical control, …

• Always a modern car• Always a free parking spot when you

come back

Cambio is just like your own car, but without the worries

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Questions related to car-ownership:1. Did you get rid of your car after joining cambio Flanders Brussels Wallonia

Yes 35% 18% 32%

2. Would you have bought a car if you would not have joined cambio Flanders Brussels Wallonia

I would definitely have bought a car 13% 10% 9%

I would probably have bought a car 14% 13% 17%

Carsharing and car-ownership

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Measuring the impact:Flanders Brussels Wallonia

01-02-2012 – Number of cambio cars 164 229 53

1 cambio car replaces at least … private cars 12,0 7,8 10,01 cambio car replaces probably … private cars (at least + probably) 15,6 11,4 14,2

Carsharing and car-ownership

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Impact on Belgian Space Consumption

1 cambio car replaces at least 10 private carsToday: 13.500 clients are replacing 4525 cars

27 km of on street parking space

Carsharing and car-ownership

92.000m² parking space

Production of a car is 15 % energy consumption in car’s life cycle

extra CO2 savings by using newer cars

Carsharing and car-ownership

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Impact on Belgian CO2:

MORE USE after joining cambioLESS USE

21% 9,8% 19,3% 17,9% -23,6%

Carsharing and public transport

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Cambio and public transport

• Close cooperation- Shareholdership- Communication

• Mobib-card integration:MIVB/STIB, Belgian Railways, De Lijn, cambio, Villo!, …

Therefore PT is willing to invest in carsharing

Public Transport and Carsharing: a perfect marriage

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Cambio and public transport

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Carsharing and public transport:Refreshing your city!!