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polisMOBILITY/Cargo Bike Sharing Europe: Share Cargo Bikes Better

A conference as part of the Cologne Mobility Fair aims to highlight potentials and options for municipalities regarding cargo bike sharing. The concept has great potential as a car replacement, but it needs user-friendly systems and high availability in order to be effective.

Shared bike is a good bike: How the mistakes of car ownership can be avoided by sharing cargo bikes instead of buying them will be discussed at the second conference on the topic in Cologne. | Photo: Tink/Anita Benassi
Shared bike is a good bike: How the mistakes of car ownership can be avoided by sharing cargo bikes instead of buying them will be discussed at the second conference on the topic in Cologne. | Photo: Tink/Anita Benassi
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The role that municipalities can play in the introduction of cargo bike rental systems is the subject of the second European Specialized Conference on Cargo Bike Sharing Europe, which will take place as part of polisMOBILITY on May 24 in Cologne. The boom in cargo bikes is also fueling the emergence of cargo bike sharing systems for the convenient short-term use instead of expensive ownership. The host city of Cologne wants to show how it can be done. In December 2022, it integrated e-cargo bikes into its bicycle rental system as part of public transportation. There are also cargo bikes in the general bike rental system of the city of Hamburg. The Bavarian capital Munich has also announced the development of a large-scale cargo bike rental system as a pilot project under municipal management.

In Germany, cargo bike sharing is already available in over 160 municipalities. The conference organizers are the Berlin transport transition agency cargobike.jetzt and the bicycle industry association Zukunft Fahrrad. The conference partners include the leading European cycling associations European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) and Cycling Industries Europe (CIE) as well as the AGFS (Association for Bicycle-Friendly Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia).

“For the transport transition and the bicycle industry, innovative mobility offers like cargo bike sharing are gaining importance. Municipalities play a key role and are therefore at the center of the conference,” advocates Wasilis von Rauch, managing director of Zukunft Fahrrad.

AGFS Chairwoman Christine Fuchs considers cargo bike sharing a good way to advance the municipal mobility transition. Simple, user-friendly systems with socially acceptable tariffs allow many people to use high-quality cargo bikes instead of cars for transporting children and shopping. The Conference Cargo Bike Sharing Europe is intended to provide municipalities with a platform to get informed and to embark on their own initiatives, says Fuchs.

"With the support of the city of Cologne and polisMOBILITY, we can offer cargo bike sharing a prominent European stage. We look forward to important impulses for further and continually growing cargo bike sharing systems across Europe," adds Martin Seißler, CEO of cargobike.jetzt.

Translated automatically from German.
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