City2Share
Less traffic with less emissions targeting a higher quality of life with better mobility – this short formula sums up the goals of the research project “City2Share”. Agglomerations like Munich and Hamburg are facing enormous challenges regarding citizens’ mobility needs due to their dynamic growths, land consumption competition and the high load of air pollution and noise. In addition, the provision of areas with a high recreational quality in highly compressed districts is of growing importance.
Hence, the project combines urban electric mobility, autonomous driving as well as e-car sharing and the enhancement of public space’s recreational quality in a completely new approach.
In the upcoming four years a group of companies, public authorities and research institutions is examining the success of these new concept based on e-mobility. The Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety is funding the project within the program “Renewable mobile” (“Erneuerbar Mobil”) with 5.8 Mio. €. Consortial partners are the City of Munich, SWM and MVG, Hamburger Hochbahn, Siemens, UPS, DriveNow, the Universität der Bundeswehr München (University of the German Military Munich) as well as the Technische Universität Dresden and the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). The team is led by BMW.
Through the project the partners are enhancing the changeover to more sustainable mobility offers and integrating individual and delivery traffic within the border areas of inner-cities into a global approach. In doing so, they are targeting the development and testing of an innovative sharing system, which is partly working with autonomous electric vehicles and inductive recharging stations and also integrates pedelecs into the existing bike sharing scheme. So called “Stations of electric mobility” will serve as the connecting element between the sharing scheme’s vehicles and public transportation. New multimodal information and access systems combined with a high participation of citizens are easing the change from individual vehicles to more sustainable mobility offers. Challenges hereby are mostly the sharing scheme’s operational concepts, the vehicle’s technical complexity, the unknown traffic-related impacts and whether users will accept the innovative offers.
Furthermore City2Share is testing a new ecological inner-city delivery concept based on electric carrier bicycles. Within this part of the project different kinds of carrier pedelecs are tested and an applicable e-delivery concept for inner-city areas is being created.
The project is implemented in well-chosen border areas of Munich’s and Hamburg’s inner-cities, where the innovative mobility and delivery concepts are being put into action. District citizens are being involved into the process from the beginning through a participation process, in which concepts and solutions as well as their impacts are discussed. Accompanying research and user acceptance studies are being performed to examine and document the effects of the measures. The applicability to other cities is also being looked at.
FINANCING
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
LEADERSHIP (TUD)
- Prof. Dr. Udo Becker
- Dipl.-Ing. Rosemarie Baldauf
RESEARCHERS
- Dipl.-Ing. Elke Clarus
- Dr.-Ing. Falk Richter
- Dipl.-Ing.Wolfram Schmidt
- Dipl.-Ing. Maike von Harten
PARTNERS
- BMW (Project Leadership)
- City of Munich
- SWM and MVG
- Hamburger Hochbahn
- Siemens
- UPS
- DriveNow
- Universität der Bundeswehr München
- TU Dresden
- German Institute of Urban Affairs (difu)
TERM
06/2016 to 05/2020