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Shared Mobility for Innovative and Inclusive Green Cities (completed)

Worldwide and in Norway, cities face challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air and noise pollution, while increasing the accessibility and liveability of residential, work and living environments to all citizens.

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About the project

Car and bike sharing could provide solutions to these challenges, thanks to optimized use of vehicles, space, energy, financial and material resources, as well as potential benefits for social inclusion.

However, while shared mobility is rapidly increasing and political support is shifting in its favour (in Norway and abroad), publically funded scientific research into this phenomenon is still in its infancy. It is our primary objective to develop a comprehensive interdisciplinary understanding of the conditions that support the upscaling of shared urban mobility and define its environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Hereto, first, from a user perspective we analyse who uses car/bike sharing, why and how this affects their daily mobility patterns and subsequent CO2-emissions. Second, from a supplier perspective we envisage which organisations and business models could provide sustainable upscaling of shared mobility. And third, from a policy perspective we examine policy change/innovation, and how to define a policy mix that best supports the sustainable upscaling of car and bike sharing.

Anticipated Norwegian insights will be contrasted with findings from the Netherlands. The consortium consists of an interdisciplinary group of Norwegian and Dutch researchers, as well as a user group of societal stakeholders. Knowledge is communicated via scientific publications, reports and interactive national and international stakeholder workshops, and is expected to support policy innovations and increase the innovative potential amongst shared mobility suppliers.

This project is part of the Shared Mobility and Car Sharing research project (in Norwegian) at the Institute of Transport Economics.

Objectives

Primary objective

To develop a comprehensive understanding of the conditions that support the upscaling of shared urban mobility and define its environmental, social and economic sustainability, from supply, demand and institutional perspectives.

Secondary objectives

  1. To understand the socio-demographic and geographic backgrounds, attitudes, motivations and mobility practises of current and prospective car and bike sharers
  2. To envisage which shared mobility organisations and business models are most likely to succeed in the sustainable upscaling of shared mobility
  3. To assess which factors explain policy change and innovation, and which (mixes of) policy goals, rationales and instruments are most successful to the sustainable upscaling of car and bike sharing

Partners

Funding scheme

The total grant award was for NOK 7 000 000.

Project period

January 2016 - September 2020

Publications

  • Hjorteset, Mari Andrine; Böcker, Lars; Røe, Per Gunnar & Wessel, Terje (2021). Intraurban geographies of car sharing supply and demand in Greater Oslo, Norway. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 101, p. 1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2021.103089. Full text in Research Archive
  • Böcker, Lars & Anderson, Ellinor Ragnhild (2020). Interest-adoption discrepancies, mechanisms of mediation and socio-spatial inclusiveness in bike-sharing: The case of nine urban regions in Norway. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. ISSN 0965-8564. 140(October), p. 266–277. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2020.08.020. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hjorteset, Mari Andrine & Böcker, Lars (2020). Car sharing in Norwegian urban areas: Examining interest, intention and the decision to enrol. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 84, p. 1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102322.

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  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2019). Bildeling på norsk - (hvorfor) tar det av?
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2019). Politikk for bildeling - fra skepsis til entusiasme.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2019). Bildeling - fra nisje til trend. Samferdsel. ISSN 0332-8988.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Policies and measures for shared mobility. Review of literature.
  • Røe, Per Gunnar & Sæther, Bjørnar (2018). Shared Mobility in a Reurbanized and Gentrified Context: How Does the Demographic and Cultural Changes in Today's Cities Influence the Potential for Innovation?
  • Hjorteset, Mari Andrine (2018). Users and potential users of carsharing – what characterizes the users, and what is the upscaling potential of Norwegian cities?
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Bildeling tar av i Norge - hvorfor?
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Bildeling tar av i Norge - Hvorfor?
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Carsharing as a Social Innovation? Norwegian Experiences.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Take-off for Carsharing in Norway: Experiences – Explanations - Expectations.
  • Hjorteset, Mari Andrine (2018). Results from surveys on shared mobility.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Oppslutning om bildeling på norsk. Ferske funn fra surveyen.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2017). Delemobilitet: Hva gjør at det tar av - og hva gjør det med byene våre?
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2016). Shared Mobility in Norway.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2016). Én delebil mot ti privatbiler. Samferdsel. ISSN 0332-8988.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Putting the sharing economy into perspective. University of Utrecht.
  • Nenseth, Vibeke (2018). Elbildeling: En nisje i nisjen. En komparativ studie av elbildelingstjenesten Move Abouts oppskalering i Oslo og Gøteborg. Universitetet i Oslo.

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Published Oct. 19, 2016 4:27 PM - Last modified Dec. 12, 2023 10:24 AM

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