Project Details

Project goal

TOSCA's main goal was to promote IST-based car sharing as an element of flexible and intermodal door-to-door mobility services. TOSCA integrated car sharing as an additional service to public transport.

The key objective of TOSCA was to promote the take-up of:

• Mature, but insufficiently deployed, leading edge technologies,
• Innovative implementation & business concepts of car sharing,
• Integrated, IST-based car sharing as European Best Practice.

In order to achieve the objectives, TOSCA:

• Realised the transfer of the innovative car sharing scheme of the City of Bremen to the public transport operator ATC-Bologna. This included the transfer of modern technology, innovative implementation and business concepts of car sharing.
• Facilitated further take-up in other European cities.

Results

• Successful take-up of an IST-based car sharing system in the city of Bologna.
• Further take-up in other European cities is starting, e.g. Strasbourg.
• The benefits & options of IST-based car sharing have been made available to a wide public.
• The integrated, technology-based car sharing concept should be established as best practice in Europe.
• Expected future reduction of car traffic in Bologna as a result of the new mobility option.

Project partners

• Azienda Transporti Consorziali (ATC) Bologna, Italy
• ACCESS - Eurocities for a New Mobility Culture
• City of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• INVERS Innovative Verkehrstelematiksysteme GmbH, Siegen, Germany
• Polis, European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
• Rupprecht Consult GmbH, Cologne, Germany