Milan confirms itself as the Italian capital of sharing mobility but the phenomenon is also starting to spread to the small municipalities of Lombardy.
The data speak for themselves: the sharing mobility it is the present and will increasingly be the future in large European cities.
Almost 40 million cars in circulation in Italy demonstrate that Italians simply cannot do without owning four wheels, yet new habits are starting to spread that see shared mobility services preferred to owned ones, especially for small urban journeys.
THEinvestigation about this phenomenon, created by Altroconsumo in partnership with other European consumer associations, it took into consideration 8 European sample cities chosen from Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium. The local cities taken into consideration were Milan and Rome.
Among these, indeed Milan, although it still has a good 84% of citizens who use their car on average 4 times a week, it also stands out for the now widespread use of sharing mobility services: in particular the Milanese prefer car sharing services without a driver (75%), followed by bike sharing, well spaced with its 48% of users. This is followed by car sharing with driver, shared scooters and electric scooters.
3 great reasons why E-VAI makes the difference in car sharing mobility
The most popular car sharing service is E-VAI, with his electric car sharing, now widely spread throughout the Milan area and Lombardy.
And to get a E-VAI the best reviews are three characteristics of the service particularly welcome:
- The ease of use of the app
- The ease of use of the electric vehicle
- Simplicity in the payment procedure
Three peculiarities that they make a difference for users, because they are also decisive in the approval ratings relating to bike sharing, shared scooters and electric scooters.
Sharing mobility leaves large cities and reaches everywhere
According to the National Observatory of Sharing Mobility, if until 2019 it was mainly large cities that exploited the advantages of shared mobility, from 2020 onwards, there will be an important change in the trend and even in the smallest cities sharing mobility services are starting to spread.
This new trend, which sees above all the widespread diffusion of electric scooters, was also partly anticipated by the car sharing of E-VAI.
The electric car sharing service of E-VAIin fact, it has always believed in mobility as an inclusive value for people and communities and, precisely for this reason, it offers its service not only in Milan and in the other provincial capitals of Lombardy but also in medium and small-sized municipalities.
Thanks to more than 300 rental stations in Lombardy and a fleet of electric cars, E-VAI allows anyone to travel sustainably.
Car sharing and public transport: Milan, capital of integrated mobility
However, Milan remains the Italian capital of car sharing both for the number of active services and because they integrate perfectly with public mobility services.
And precisely in the context of intermodal mobility, the possibility of integrating the car sharing service with public transport was concretized by E-VAI thanks to the partnership with Trenord.
Electric cars and Lombardy railways they manage to integrate perfectly, offering citizens the possibility of moving in a sustainable way. The car stations E-VAIin fact, they are present in the major railway stations in Lombardy.
Shared mobility in Milan shows signs of appreciation and ample margins for growth
Antwerp, Brussels, Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome and Milan: the cities investigated by the investigation by Altroconsumo and partners demonstrate how Europe is ready for well-structured, integrated and as sustainable shared mobility as possible.
On the other hand, users are also showing an ever-increasing propensity towards this alternative mode of transportation, in the city and beyond its borders. Returning to Milan, in fact, we see how, to the statistic cited at the beginning of the article, which saw 84% of Milanese people use their car on average four times a week, is contrasted by an identical percentage of 84% who declare that sharing mobility services have improved the overall mobility of the city.
Always in the shadow of the Madonnina, 58% of the population interviewed consider the city's infrastructure well adapted to best integrate all the different means of transport (private cars, public transport and shared mobility).
Not only positive aspects, the survey highlights several areas of improvement and growth for sharing mobility. In fact, 49% of Milanese consider the costs of sharing mobility services too high to be able to use them regularly. Similarly, 40% of Milanese complain that there are not enough sharing mobility options near their home or workplace.
Therefore we are certainly on the right path towards integrated and sustainable shared mobility, but there is still something we can do to make sharing services, in all their forms, even more accessible to all citizens.
