12.07.2022
The Automobile Club Roma presents a study by the Filippo Caracciolo Foundation on cars, scooters, bicycles and scooters in sharing in the capital.
The Automobile Club Roma today presented at the Campidoglio a study carried out by the Caracciolo Foundation and entitled “New mobility models in the urban environment. Sharing mobility in Rome “. The volume, illustrated in the presence of the Councilor for Mobility, Eugenio Patanè, analyzes the evolution of sharing services in all its forms, comparing it with the trends of the major European capitals and major Italian cities.
In Europe, average daily trips have increased in the last fifty years from 17 to 35 kilometers and there are many factors that have generated a change in the habits of citizens, especially in the last pandemic period. The use of shared mobility is increasingly widespread, especially that which sees bicycles, scooters and electric scooters as protagonists. In the international scenario, Rome is the sixth European capital for shared bikes (25,000 in Paris, 5,000 in Rome) and the fifth for the number of shared scooters (30,000 in Berlin, 13,000 in Rome).
The study by the Caracciolo Foundation also highlights the strong concentration of services in the first two central municipalities of Rome, to the detriment of the more peripheral urban areas. This limits the dissemination and accessibility of sharing.
The analysis also highlights the growing trend of shared mobility in the capital: in the last year alone, subscriptions to sharing services have grown by 97%, reaching 3.4 million registered users, and individual rentals have risen by 88. , 5%, exceeding 2.5 million trips. Bikes are those with the most significant increase in registrations (+ 227%), but in terms of trips they mark “just” + 57%. Scooters, on the other hand, recorded + 147% of registrations and + 178% of trips.
Among the advantages of these new forms of mobility, the lower environmental impact should not be underestimated: 80% of the cars in car sharing are Euro6 or electric, while among the private cars the Euro6 are only 32% of the total and those with batteries they exceed 0.5% of the current stock. Finally, electric bikes and scooters do not impact the environment in terms of emissions.
But all that glitters is not gold: looking at road safety, in fact, the involvement of bicycles and scooters in accidents has more than doubled in the last five years.
“In the year of the centenary of the Automobile Club Roma – declares the president Giuseppina Fusco – we continue to strategically preside over the many aspects of mobility. The study demonstrates how Sharing mobility is today a concrete alternative to moving in the urban environment. However, it is necessary to introduce corrective measures in terms of infrastructures and regulations, preventing new risks of accidents. Furthermore, shared means are concentrated above all in the historic center, while their diffusion is also necessary in the suburbs, to the advantage of an even greater number of citizens who would have multimodal solutions, integrated and complementary to public transport “.
“For our administration – declares Eugenio Patanè – sharing mobility is strategically very important in view of the goal we have set ourselves to reduce the number of cars in the city. For this reason we have recently approved a new regulation for the authorization and management of scooter and ebike sharing rental services with the idea of rationalizing the presence of this type of vehicle in the city, reducing them in number, guaranteeing clear rules that favor the service throughout the city and limit abuses in use, speed and parking possibilities. Thanks to the new provisions, which will come into force on January 1, 2023, we will give these vehicles a real transport function, which must be that of the last mile, extending the service in a widespread manner across all municipalities “.
Read the synthesis and the full version of study.