Capital car sharing has tripled in just a year

6 November 2018

The mayor's office stated network expansion and usage of car sharing

Deputy Mayor and head of the Department of transportation and development of road transport infrastructure of Moscow Maxim Liksutov noted that the service of renting a car in Moscow in 2018 was three times more popular compared to 2017. The Deputy mayor said that great due to an increase of fleet of cars and carcharhinoid flexible tariff policy of the company.
In an interview with TASS, Mr. Likutov said: "More than 18 million trips made by the users of the service short-term rental from the beginning of the year. We fix a large increase in the popularity of the project is more than three times compared to the previous year, then the car took about 5.5 million times."
According to Mr. Liksutov, the popularity of car sharing has increased due to the introduction of different systems of customer loyalty and expanding service packages. So, he said: "for Example, in the future the premium cars and baby seats. In addition, operators regularly broaden the area of use. Some machine operators are available in the Moscow region: Reutov, Dolgoprudny, Mytishchi and Khimki".

PS In this context, it is appropriate to recall the report, "Avtoevolyutsiya", presented SKOLKOVO at the conference, "Avtoevolyutsiya-2018" on October 10 this year in Kaluga.

According to this schedule the SKOLKOVO Foundation by 2040 most of the world's passenger fleet anyway buduet in sommerton use, and while Moscow is among the world leaders in the implementation of car-sharing

  So, if the trend №1 in the world of motorization in SKOLKOVO single "the development of electric vehicles", and the trend No. 2 – the introduction of unmanned vehicles, the trend number 3 is just "improving transport and mobility" through car sharing and ridesharing (in the latter respect, however, our carriers, yet hostile, including calls for a full ban, such as online service BlaBlaCar). Car sharing, on the contrary, quite satisfied with both users and city authorities, as in addition to increasing the mobility of the population, including due to the gain in prices vs traditional taxiin more remote prospect, and to reducing the need for private cars and the release of the Parking space, i.e. to create a more comfortable urban environment.

According to this schedule, the car-share in the coming decades, there is still room to grow in terms of increasing customer satisfaction and competition with traditional taxis and public transport, and in General, he quite naturally built-in "Smart mobility" which stands for the SKOLKOVO Foundation