All European cities face a similar problem: we have too many cars and too little space. To improve quality of life in our cities, it is necessary to reorganise the allocation of road space. The momo project addresses this core element of urban mobility through examining the potential of Car-Sharing for a better mobility culture in European cities.

Car-sharing saves public space! A good Car-Sharing service is able to replace private car ownership. A Car-Sharing vehicle can easily replace 10 private cars or even more.

Today, there are about 500,000 Car-Sharers in Europe. But the potential is much larger:  the EU27 could have 6,000,000 Car-Sharers by 2020 – if there was more knowledge and support. Europe’s cities could be relieved from the burden of about 600,000 cars which will no longer demand parking space. End-to-end, this is parking space of 3,000 kilometres length (which is like a row from Stockholm to Madrid or from London to Athens)! If this impacts was tried to be achieved by parking garages, an investment of about 9,000,000,000 € would be necessary!

Car-sharing reduces the carbon footprint of transport. This relates to the modal shift, the better emission standards of Car-Sharing fleets and by the life-cycle savings from the cars which will not be produced. Within the momo project, the City of Bremen (547,000 inhabitants) has developed the first municipal Car-Sharing Action Plan in a European city - with a target of at least 20,000 car-sharers by 2020 – reducing the demand for parking in the inner city neighbourhoods by about 6,000 cars.

There are nice videos indoicating what you can do better with (parking) space in cities:

green space instead of parking;sofa instead of cars; coffee instead of cars; children instead of cars

Find the momorandum as political statement here in the download section.