European Union Instruments and Strategies for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Exploiting PUMS and ITS to Develop an Efficient Car Sharing Proposal

In the last decade, a big European effort has been made in terms of research, strategies and initiatives to boost new forms of sustainable urban mobility to replace individual transport. Among the other instruments identified to achieve this goal the European Commission emphasises integrated planning at all mobility levels, to be realised through the writing of the PUMS, and its management and through Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Under these two conditions, car sharing is expected to become an efficient sustainable transport service, able to limit the use of private cars and to facilitate multi-modality for public transport.