CSA Conference 2018

1. Taxistop – Cambio Belgium
facilitating sharing since 1975
David Van Kesteren
CEO Taxistop
CEO Cambio Belgium
Chairman combined mobility commission UITP

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Who is Taxistop?
Facilitator of sharing since 1975
“Doing more with less by collaborative consumption”
All kinds of sharing services: e.g. carpool, eventpool, less
mobile services, homesitting, home-exchanging, …carsharing

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Taxistops mission
• Decreasing the possession of cars
• Decreasing the number of trips with a car
• Optimalisation of the use of cars

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Cambio carsharing today
42 Cities
33,700 Users
1200 Cars
530 Stations

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The typical cambio user
• 50/50 Male woman
• Between 26 and 39 years
• 9/10 live less than 1km of a station
• Use cambio for shopping, visiting people and for leisure
• 1/3 our business customers – they boost our usage rate
during weekdays
We grow on average with 400 customers every month.

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The typical cambio user

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Key elements for succesful carsharing
1. An impeccable service
2. Visibility on the streets
3. Cooperation with public transport and other
‘soft’ means of transportation
4. Support from cities

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Succes of cambio – Collaboration with
public transport
NMBS-Holding :
• Parking places :
• In total 280 cambio-cars nearby railway stations
• 160 of those cars are on B-Parking / NMBS property
• 1x per year: communication campaign
De Lijn / STIB / TEC
• Use chip card from public transport to open cars
• 2 x per year: communication campaign
• Members reduction
• Permanent communication

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Modal shift enforces traffic safety
29% 26% 16% 28% 29%
9% 13%
51% 6% 3%
Carsharers start by changing their transportation behavior:
“Think before you go”
Less trips with a car and more trips by bike or on foot
increase road safety

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Modal shift
• 8673 private cars less on the road !
Less cars on the road is the most effective way to increase road safety
• 1 cambio car replaces 12 private cars

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Boosting Carsharing for the future?
By including other forms of
sharing via new
cooperations:
• Bikesharing
• Ridesharing
• Carpooling
Adding a product or a service
that a carsharer could find
usefull

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Boosting carsharing for the future?
Including our service in MaaS projects
Mobility as a service by Olympus
• The Olympus app is a platform app with multimodal ticketing,
itineraries and with only 1 invoice at the end of the month
• First focus on business customers
• Next focus is private customers with test projects

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Boosting Carsharing for the future?
Supporting new initiatives that influence the
thinking process of the individual in their
every day transport
“Mobipunten”
Creating points on a city area level that
offer different ways of transport , such as:
• Parking spaces for carsharing cars
• Public transport stops
• Bikesharing
• Loading infrastructure for EV’s
• Other services can be included
A person can choose at every moment the
right kind of transport.

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Boosting Carsharing for the future?
Last but not least…Autonomous cars
• Introducing the new technology through a reliable service of
carsharing
• Need for local authorities to define the rules
• Optimalization of the technology by avoiding the spreading of
“individual” autonomous cars