Berlin and Paris have the biggest shared mobility fleets in Europe

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Shared mobility is booming all over Europe. More than 380,000 shared vehicles are available to road users across a selection of the continent's major cities, whose offer is detailed in the latest European Shared Mobility Index from Fluctuo.

Shared mobility is booming all over Europe. More than 380,000 shared vehicles are available to road users across a selection of the continent's major cities, whose offer is detailed in the latest European Shared Mobility Index from Fluctuo.

From bicycles and scooters to mopeds and cars, there are now 351 shared mobility services across the 22 cities studied. Berlin still has the most operators (28), including all vehicle types, ahead of Madrid (25), Milan (22), Bordeaux (21), Hamburg and Paris (20). In total, more than 380,000 vehicles are available for shared use, which represents a spectacular increase of 40% in one year.

Berlin and Paris remain the two cities with the largest shared mobility fleets. More than 50,000 shared vehicles are available in each of the two capitals. However, in relation to the number of inhabitants, Helsinki, Lisbon and Brussels have the largest fleets per capita.

In terms of usage, bicycle trips account for half of all journeys. Those available via dedicated docking stations account for 40% of all trips listed, while free-floating bikes account for 9%. Note that Velib' (Paris), Bicing (Barcelona) and Santander Cycles (London) alone account for half of all shared bicycle trips.

Scooters, meanwhile, account for 35% of all shared mobility trips, and their success continues unabated. This year, the number of users has tripled in Berlin and Munich.

Electric mopeds account for only 10% of the journeys recorded by the study, but their use is increasing everywhere, with a 95% increase in journeys in just one year, thanks to the expansion of offers from operators such as Cooltra, Cityscoot, felyx and GO Sharing.

Trips by car, which are generally longer, now account for just 6% of all trips studied. Indeed, the supply of car-sharing services depends to a large extent on the mobility policies of cities and their willingness to promote car-sharing. In Munich, for example, the authorities have already decided to dedicate more than 1,600 parking spaces to these cars by 2035.

This European Shared Mobility Index is compiled by the startup Fluctuo, which specializes in the collection, processing and analysis of data from shared mobility services. The data was collected between April and June 2022 in 22 major European cities.

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