Danish Mobility
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Dansk Mobilitet har en generalforsamlingsvalgt bestyrelse, som er bredt sammensat og repræsenterer såvel lokale udlejere som danske afdelinger af internationale virksomheder.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Urban Mobility in the EU
18 Dec 2018
Danske Biludlejere is an organisation representing the car rental and MaaS companies in Denmark.
Urban mobility is an essential tool in reaching our climate and environmental goals and facilitating the day to day mobility of our citizens.
People gather in and around the larger cities, putting an ever increasing strain on our public transportation systems as well as our physical infrastructure.
One way to overcome this is to rethink transportation, especially when it comes to choosing set modes of transportation, and transform it into a question of mobility instead.
People need to get from one place to another, this is the core of our mobility needs together with the flexibility to be mobile when and how we need it. Instead of owning a personal key, and thereby locking that person into using this mode of transportation, the choices should be between price, travel time ad which modes to use.
Car sharing and a system to combine that with public transportation, cycles etc. will greatly help congestion, give people a greater flexibility and also cut down on CO2, NoX and noise pollution. One reason is, that professional car sharing, and rental, companies has modern fleets of cars, often low- or Zero-emission, that will be changed on a much shorter timeline, than those owned privately.
Cities and their municipalities will have to increase their focus on making it viable to run mobility solutions. At the moment there is a lot of barriers to MaaS solution, the most serious one being access to parking spaces in the cities. Some cities are more open in the respect than others providing easy to manage solution. Others charge exorbitant amounts pr. car each month, does not exclude car sharing from time based parking areas, does not promote alternative fuel vehicles or fails to provide the same basic set of conditions for all providers of MaaS services.
It is important to remember, that MaaS and general mobility is more than an urban task. It is easier, and perhaps also more economically sound, to test and implement in our larger cities, this does not mean that more rural areas will benefit from the same systems, rolling them out gradually as our tests and results unfold.
Danske Biludlejere are very positive towards all the work being done with regards to Urban Mobility and MaaS on an Union level. We believe, that a common set of rules and goals across the EC will benefit us all and be the core mechanic to push the development in a sufficient pace to reach or necessary goals, promoting a greener, easier and effective mobility in and around our cities.
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