Momo car-sharing

Momo Car-Sharing is an Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) project intended to promote a sustainable mobility culture supporting various transport options aside from car ownership. It has a total budget of 2,693,644 €, 50% co-financed by the European Union. The project acronym momo stands for more options for energy efficient mobility through Car-Sharing.

The project started 1 October 2008 and consists of a partnership of 14 partners from Helsinki (Finland), Prague (Czech Republic), Athens (Greece), Rome (Italy), Bremen (Germany), Brussels, (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain) and Cork (Ireland). The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the German association for CarSharing (Bundesverband CarSharing bcs) give active support to the project.

The City of Bremen -project coordinator of the momo project – was selected with its Car-Sharing as "Urban Best Practice" to be permanently presented on the World Exposition EXPO 2010 in Shanghai[1]. The momo-project was presented in workshops on the EXPO and served as a reference for the inauguration of Car-Sharing in Shanghai.

The Bremen Car-Sharing Action Plan (part of momo project) is awarded with the Travel Planning Award 2010[2] of the German Town Planner's Association SRL.

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Project objectives

Momo was designed as a component to reach the EU targets in the fields of transport, energy and the reduction of CO2 emissions. This European project aimed at raising the efficiency and attractiveness of Car-Sharing in Europe. By building on the potential of Car-Sharing in regards to saving energy, minimising greenhouse gases and improving the quality of urban live[3][4], a significant increase of the Car-Sharing services and the Car-Sharing demand had been aimed for. To reach those goals the project partner designed a concept that included all relevant stakeholders at most. These are next to local authorities and Car-Sharing providers, public transport providers, energy agencies and research facilities.

Expected results

The project expects to have following results:[5]

Notable facts

Notable facts of he momo project are:[6]

Project partners

Project partners were:[7]

References

  1. ^ TV coverage about momo at EXPO 2010 in international Chinese TV: http://www.icshanghai.com/html/2010/09/06/3765.html
  2. ^ Awarded by the German Town Planner's Association SRL (in German): http://www.srl.de/message.php?dvopgid=8&id=665
  3. ^ Green, C (2009). Car-Sharing – Good for the Environment and the Budget. http://www.organicgreenandnatural.com/2009/09/16/car-sharing-good-for-the-environment-and-the-budget. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
  4. ^ "The CarSharing Handbook (Part 1)". Rain Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-07-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20070720225314/http://www.rainmagazine.com/handbook.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-04. 
  5. ^ More Options for Energy Efficient Mobility through Car-Sharing. Website of Intelligent Energy Europe.
  6. ^ More Options for Energy Efficient Mobility through Car-Sharing. Website of Intelligent Energy Europe.
  7. ^ Momo Consortium. Official Momo-Homepage.

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