04/27/2022
Sticchi Damiani (ACI): “Integrating public transport and sharing services is the only way to more efficient, economical, safe and clean urban mobility”
“Integrating public transport and sharing services – using a private car only when strictly necessary and thus rediscovering the pleasure of driving – is the only real way towards more efficient, cheaper, safer and cleaner urban mobility. “. This was stated by the President of ACI – Angelo Sticchi Damiani – commenting on the signing of the collaboration agreement between the Automobile Club of Italy and RACC (Reial Automòbil Club de Catalunya), which will allow the use of the “CityTrips” app, in various Italian cities.
“Apps like“ CityTrips ”- added the ACI President – allow each of us to create a customized mobility. For the first time, we can choose and combine ideal means, rates and routes, speeding up travel, reducing time, risks, costs and polluting emissions: an opportunity that we cannot miss – not only in times of crisis like the one we are experiencing – and that must become our new way of getting around the city “.
“This agreement – said Xavier Pérez, General Manager RACC – strengthens the international presence of RAAC as a Mobility Services Club. It is an important step forward in promoting multimodal mobility in Europe, which will make life easier for thousands of citizens by providing them a simple and useful tool “.
Developed by the RACC with the support of the FIA Innovation Fund, “CityTrips” is an aggregator – completely free – of mobility services, which facilitates the way to move around the city, making city mobility more sustainable, efficient, clean and healthy.
The app allows you to choose the ideal route, integrating public and shared transport. In particular, it allows you to know – in real time – the timetables of public transport, to book cars, motorcycles, scooters and bicycles for sharing services and to map the safest routes for bicycles.
The main objective of “CityTrips”: to develop a complete global MaaS (Mobility as a Service) solution: a single application that – allowing access to all mobility services – represents a valid alternative to the use of private vehicles.
ACI
The Automobile Club of Italy is the largest free association of citizens with over a million associated families, who find in ACI the institutional representative to protect the demand for mobility and the passion for motoring. ACI is an institutional reality rooted in the territory with over 100 provincial Automobile Clubs and more than 1,500 delegations which, since its foundation (1905), has been promoting responsible and sustainable mobility in Italy. ACI is a non-economic public body that does not weigh on public spending, and an integrated system of operating structures that invest in training and technology, ranging from the insurance sector to Information and Communication Technology, from tourism to all forms of roadside assistance.
REC
The RACC is an institution that offers high quality assistance services to meet the needs of over 10 million people around the world. It specializes in personal, family, home assistance, roadside assistance and health emergencies, and has the largest network of driving schools in Spain. The Club provides over 1,000,000 assistance services a year and manages approximately 425,000 insurance policies in various branches. The RACC promotes a new culture of mobility, safer and more ecological. It has a great dissemination capacity and influences the sectors related to the improvement of road safety, infrastructure and accident reduction