12 European Car Sharing Associations and Networks: An Overview
Car sharing in Europe has grown significantly in recent years, supported by various associations and networks. The stakeholders have various approaches to representing shared mobility; some focus on car sharing, while others include a broader range of mobility services, such as micromobility and ridesharing. Some have been around a long time, others have only emerged recently.
The nomenclature can vary as well, ranging from “association”, “network”, “collaboration”, “platform”, and “coalition” to “think tank” and beyond. Their missions, focus, methods, and tools differ and are sometimes fluid. Regardless of their exact focus or name, they all have one thing in common: they are working on national car sharing initiatives in an increasingly professionalized industry; let’s highlight twelve of them here.
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Austria: Carsharing Österreich
Foundation: 2020 | Website | Notable resource: Station map
Carsharing Österreich is an Austrian car sharing association and platform, and represents many station-based car sharing operators in the country. Founded in 2020, Carsharing Österreich consists of more than 30 operators, particularly in rural areas. One of its main goals is to promote the idea of car sharing. To help people find car sharing stations, they currently display the locations of over 330 vehicles from various operators. Approximately 80% of the vehicles on the map are electric. The station map is a free and easy to use service to help people use car sharing as part of sustainable mobility. Networking is also important to Carsharing Österreich. In addition to focusing on the national level, it has started linking up internationally with the membership of AlpsGo E-CarSharing, situated in nearby Bozen.
Belgium: Way To Go
Foundation: 2003 | Website | Notable resource: Shared Mobility in Belgium. Report 2024
Way To Go was previously known as Autodelen.net before its name change in early 2025. While Autodelen.net focused exclusively on car sharing, Way To Go now also encompasses other shared mobility modes. Recently, the association has published several well-researched, detailed reports on national and regional car sharing trends and statistics.
Czech Republic: AČC
Website | Notable resource: Car Sharing Map
The Asociace českého carsharingu (AČC) observes Czech car sharing and represents the growing market. The association displays an online map of car sharing services and offers an analysis of the market. It has four key national car sharing operators as members (CAR4WAY, Bolt Drive, Anytime Carsharing, and Autonapůl). According to their latest data, the four operators have more than 1,900 car sharing vehicles in 12 cities.
France: Association des Acteurs de l’Autopartage
Foundation: 2020 | Website | Notable resource: Baromètre Autopartage 2023
The Association des Acteurs de l’Autopartage (AAA) represents the majority of car sharing operators in France. AAA has published several national car sharing barometers that provide excellent insights into fleet size, composition, user base, emissions and regional distribution.
Germany: Bundesverband CarSharing e.V.
Foundation: 1998 | Website | Notable resource: Annual car sharing statistic
Germany is Europe’s largest car sharing market. Most of the operators are represented by the Bundesverband CarSharing e.V. (bcs). The association has 200 members and focuses exclusively on the car sharing industry. Many of its members are station-based or mixed-model car sharing operators. The bcs publishes annual car sharing statistics showing the size and development of the national market. Car sharing is available in over 1,390 German municipalities and cities, provided by nearly 300 operators. Through its analytical publications, the bcs helps people understand the complex German car sharing market.
Ireland: Mobility Partnership Ireland
The Irish shared mobility market is organized under the Mobility Partnership Ireland (MPI). This coalition of eight partner companies represents the drive for sustainable mobility in Ireland. The coalition takes a policy-focused approach to identify solutions by recommending policy changes in the transportation sector.
Italy: Assosharing
The association, which represents most of the Italian sharing market, aims to suggest ideas for the regulation of the kickscooter, bike, moped and shared car industries. It develops policy proposals to support the industries’ development.
In addition to Assosharing, the independent organization “Osservatorio Nazionale Sharing Mobility” provides excellent annual car sharing industry data in Italy.
Netherlands: Coalitie van deelauto-aanbieders
Foundation: 2023 | Website
The Coalitie van deelauto-aanbieders (CvD, coalition of car sharing providers) is a collaboration of leading providers of various forms of electric car sharing active in the Netherlands. The goal of the CvD is to conduct a constructive dialogue with policy makers about policies needed to make electric car sharing successful. The CvD represents providers offering station-based, zone-based, and free-floating vehicles. The providers operate across B2C, B2B, and P2P models, with both cooperative and commercial objectives. Each participating provider independently sets its own commercial and strategic policies.
Poland: Mobilne Miasto
Website | Notable resource: 6 years of car sharing in Poland
Mobilne Miasto represents various mobility operators in Poland. The company regularly publishes market analyses on new mobility developments. In 2022, Mobilne Miasto published an overview of the first six years of car sharing in Poland. This publication contains valuable insights from car sharing hubs such as Gdańsk, Warsaw, and Kraków.
Spain: AVCE
Website | Notable resource: Barómetro del Carsharing 2024
The Association of Shared Vehicles in Spain (Asociación de Vehículo Compartido España, AVCE) represents many Spanish car sharing operators. AVCE constantly monitors, analyzes, and shapes the Spanish car sharing landscape. This makes AVCE an important voice in the transformation of the urban mobility system. In May 2024, AVCE published its first car sharing barometer.
In addition to AVCE, we would like to mention the regional Basque organization “Eusko CarSharing Elkartea”.
Switzerland: CHACOMO
Foundation: 2021 | Website | Notable resource: Dashboard Shared Mobility
CHACOMO (Swiss Alliance for Collaborative Mobility) represents the shared mobility sector in Switzerland. It provides a collective voice in the political process and public debate for its more than 30 members, who account for more than 12 million shared mobility trips per year. CHACOMO regularly publishes data, insights and statistics on the development of the shared mobility industry in Switzerland, including car sharing. Their car sharing dashboard is the main national resource for that industry’s data.
UK: CoMoUK
Foundation: 1999 | Website | Notable resource: Annual Car Club Reports
CoMoUK is the UK organization for shared transport, a charity (NGO) dedicated to its social, economic and environmental benefits. They cover services that share cars, bikes and e-bikes, rides in cars and e-scooters. They publish detailed annual reports on car clubs and shared micromobility based on operator data and user surveys, as well as a range of new research each year. CoMoUK is the UK’s leading public interest voice on mobility hubs that bring shared, public and active travel options together.
They regularly convene public sector authorities at scale, and they have private sector operator memberships and accreditation. They also have links with other third sector organizations. The charity also publishes guidance for all stakeholders as well as convening a meeting of operators of small-scale shared transport schemes. It has an active program of policy and public affairs work with national, regional and local governments. CoMoUK organizes the UK’s only Shared Transport Conference alongside face-to-face events and regular online webinars.
Outlook
The above overview highlights selected European key associations and networking opportunities for car sharing. Currently, there is no overarching European car sharing association beyond the individual national organizations. Launched in the 1990s, the European Carsharing Association (ecs) was an early European approach during the industry’s early stages.
Beyond Europe, there are other car sharing associations and networks worldwide. They include the CSA (Carsharing Association; with members from North America and Australia/New Zealand), several working groups of the UITP (International Association of Public Transport), and Japanese networks such as the Japanese car sharing association and the Japanese information platform Carsharing360.
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