MOSES Mobility Services for Urban Sustainability (www.moses-europe.org)
   
MOSES is an European project, involving a variety of actors and co-funded by the European Commission, the DG Research in the context of its key action "City of Tomorrow".

MOSES will develop innovative mobility services based on car-sharing experiences (in particular in Bremen) and optimise their integration into urban development and within intermodal chains. It will exploit integrated car-sharing to target a sizeable market breakthrough at a European scale. Some sites have been defined to implement car-sharing according to their specific characters: Stockholm (Sweden), London (boroughs of Southwark and Sutton, UK), Wallonie (Louvain-la-Neuve, Dinant, Namur, Belgium), Prague (Rep. Czech, study only), Genoa, Palermo and Torino (Italy). A Guidebook for actors will be published at the end of the project (with recommendations on telematics, vehicles, urban integration, operating systems, …).

The structure of the study is the following:

Work Package 1 Project Management
   
Work Package 2 State of the Art and User needs
   
Work Package 3 Design and Building of Demonstrators : analysis of the use of new technologies as a pre-requisite for the implementation of a car-sharing system
   
Work Package 4 Transfer and Implementation
   
Work Package 5 Integration into urban Planning, (central existing neighbourhoods and new urban developments)
   
Work Package 6 Monitoring and Assessment, including a comparative cross-site analysis and a study about incentives / barriers
   
Work Package 7 Verification of hypotheses and recommendations
   
Work Package 8 Dissemination

The UITP will be mostly involved in the WP 8 about the dissemination of the project. Its main role in the MOSES project can be seen as to increase the awareness of the public transport sector about the possibilities offered by the car-sharing systems. The UITP will work on the analysis of the state of the art from the public transport point of view (statistics, …).
 
Objectives
The overall objective is to increase the efficiency and attractiveness of the city. The following hypotheses will be tested within MOSES:
1. In EU cities, about 10% of the private cars can be replaced within less than a decade by innovative mobility services without restrictions to personal mobility : 12.000 new car-sharing customers.
   
2. On the EU-level a mileage reduction of about 30-50 billion km annually could be achieved within one decade by these integrated mobility services - with an annual energy saving equivalent of about 6 - 8 million tons of CO2.
   
3. The urban infrastructure will be used more efficiently. The demand for parking space in cities can be reduced by more than 10%. In addition public transport will win new clients.
   
4. Urban life will become more attractive as public space is won back for social use. The 'compact city' becomes more practicable by reducing the land-use planning requirements for car parking associated with new development.
   
5. The local economy will profit. Innovative mobility services and the change of mobility patterns will support local shopping and service infrastructure.
   
Schedule
Kick off meeting : June 2001
End of project : December 2004
   
Partners
City of Bremen - Der Senator fuer Bau und Umwelt
University of Bremen
Cambio car-sharing
Bremer Strassenbahn AG
London Borough of Southwark
London Borough of Sutton
Southwark Energy Agency
City of Palermo
ATM Torino
City of Genova
TECMAV
Région wallonne
Taxistop
City of Praha
City of Stockholm
MFO Stockholm
UITP
   
Contact
For more information, please contact : studies@uitp.com