With its Mobility-One-Way car-sharing model, Mobility is responding to a very common customer request, writes Mobility in a press release. The car-sharing cooperative will run tests on this new car-sharing model from July to the end of this year.
The service will be tested on selected routes with input from the customers themselves: 85,000 Mobility customers and members of the innovation consultancy Atizo 360° community have been sent questionnaires to help decide which routes should be used. “This will help us find out what people want to use one-way cars for, which routes are most in demand and how much they are prepared to pay for a trip,” explains Mobility communications officer Patrick Eigenmann.
The new service complements the classic location-based Mobility car sharing service and that of its subsidiary Catch a Car, which enables one-way trips within a city area, writes Mobility. By targeting longer trip, Mobility hopes to “offer the entire range of car sharing facilities,” explains Eigenmann. “The more people share cars rather than owning them, the better it is for traffic and the environment.”