Car sharing in NRW: Where is the connection in the Ruhr area?

Car sharing in NRW: Where is the connection in the Ruhr area?

Düsseldorf, Deutschland - In North Rhine-Westphalia there are still large differences in the Carsharing range. While the car sharing range is growing in many major cities, there is a considerable need to catch up, especially in the Ruhr area. This emerges from a current ranking of the Federal Association of Carsharing (BCS), which was published in November.

car sharing offers the opportunity to use several people a car without having to own it. The list of top 20 cities in Germany are only the two North Rhine-Westphalian major cities of Düsseldorf and Cologne. The Ruhr area is affected by a comparatively small car sharing offer, and the provider of Greenwheels left the market in this region two years ago, which further tightens the situation. Other companies like Cambio and Stadtmobil try to slowly close the gap.

car sharing vehicles per inhabitant

The ranking shows clear differences in the availability of car sharing vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. Karlsruhe with over 5 vehicles is clearly ahead. Munich and Hamburg follow with over 3 vehicles, while Cologne and Düsseldorf have more than 2 car sharing vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. In contrast, Dortmund has only 0.06 vehicles (36 cars) per 1,000 inhabitants.

• Cologne: 2,325 cars
• Düsseldorf: 1,472 cars
• Münster, Aachen, Bonn: Around 1 vehicle each per 1,000 inhabitants
• Essen: 220 vehicles (largest offer in the Ruhr area)
• Duisburg: Follow
• Wuppertal: 226 vehicles
• Gelsenkirchen: No offer in ranking

increasing costs for possession of own vehicles, such as insurance and repairs, continue to drive the demand for car sharing offers. Nehrke, an expert in this area, mentions two essential factors that can lead to better car sharing care: the presence of a long-standing provider and the provision of car sharing parking spaces by the municipalities, as is the case in Bonn and Essen.

In addition, there are more free floating vehicles than station-based in cities such as Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. In contrast, the station -based car sharing dominates in cities such as Karlsruhe. In Potsdam, a free floating provider from Berlin has expanded its business area, which has led to an outnumber of free floating vehicles in this city. In many cities, a combined system of both variants is now also offered, which can be observed in cities such as Heidelberg and Augsburg, as reported on carsharing.de

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien