In Italy, carpooling grows, changes and diversifies. More and more citizens choose the shared car: in 2019 there were 2 and a half million registrations of carpooling services in our cities, marking a + 28.7% compared to the previous year. The highest trend in Rome and Milan: together around 10 million rentals with ever greener vehicles. Fleets are also growing: 3% in free-floating mode (7,009 vehicles) and 7% in station based (1,255).
It emerges from "Different shades of car sharing", the fourth online appointment of the #lessCARS conference organized by the National Sharing Mobility Observatory. With the lockdown of March and April 2020 - it is also highlighted - that car sharing services have collapsed, with spikes even 90%, but the positive trend started again in May 2020, with a + 30%.
In June we expect + 50% with some interesting news. In addition to the growth in registrations, from 1,865,765 in 2018 to 2,409,309 in 2019, there was an increase in the number of rentals: + 1.5% and + 33.7%, respectively in free-floating (average duration 33 minutes) and station-based (178 minutes).
In 2019 Milan was the city with the most free-floating rentals (6,156,385), an average journey of 7.4 km, and an average duration of 33 minutes with a daily rotation rate of 5.8 per car. Rome follows with 3,233,448 and a distance of 8.4 km, 36 minutes and a rotation rate of 4.1. Then there is Turin: 1,720,224 rentals, 5.4 km of travel for an average of 22 minutes and 6 daily rentals per car. In Florence 533,680 rentals were made, with an average journey of 6.7 km (28 minutes per car) and a rotation rate of 2.8.
Friday is the day on which more rentals are made while the peak, throughout the week, takes place in the time slots 18-19 for station-based and 19-20 for free-floating. Finally, 1 out of 4 rentals takes place between 10 pm and 6 am, according to the National Sharing Mobility Observatory "as evidence of how a service is exploited 24 hours a day".
