Uniqway - students' carsharing project transforms mobility

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21260/21:00357569

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Uniqway - students' carsharing project transforms mobility

Original language description

When we try to have a clear look at the evolution of transportation, we could see bright beginnings with shady todays. Many governmental organizations, institutions, technological companies, and even NGOs are trying to deal with current challenges in transport, mostly resulting in costly congestions. Moreover, almost everybody is expecting the change will be instant. A scientific view of the topic cannot be that simple. The current world of transport offers many data-based socalled solutions dealing with congestions. Furthermore, we have new transport devices, a smaller, efficient, single purpose. Last but not least, old technological tools are being transformed by a new approach to the relation between the transportation provider and its user. We can see navigation apps enhanced with real-time traffic data promoting selfish behaviour leading to the devastation of calm neighbourhoods and local roads by directing high traffic through such places. History of narrow city streets is thwarted by huge shared bicycles waiting for their next rider or blocked by piles of e-scooters. Hence, the environment is adapting to these novelties. Often it is performed in the most convenient way, not in an optimal manner. One of the new approaches to old types of transport is carsharing – the user still drives a car by himself, but he does not own the vehicle. It is expected that the current global vehicle fleet of private cars could be reduced almost by 30% if proper carsharing systems are widely adopted. However, proper adoption and time to achieve it are the most significant challenges. The average lifecycle of a single-vehicle ends after ca. twenty years of service. Technologies, that allowed the rise of carsharing exist and have widely penetrated the market in the last few years, even though carsharing itself is known since ca. the 1950s. Therefore, if we would like to observe the real benefit of carsharing, we need to wait until the lifecycle of at least 30% of vehicles will end, while the carsharing is highly available to anybody anywhere. It could be a very long time. On the other hand, current trends in ownership show a different approach to the new generations. Some of the studies doubt the longevity of their alternative attitude, as the needs change with age, family life, employment, etc. Nevertheless, dealing with the young generation, such as students, means dealing with people without a car and relatively low income. Thus, on the one hand, it is an excellent opportunity to reduce the number of stationary vehicles on the streets in the future, but it is a tough challenge in promoting relatively expensive service. Project Uniqway is a carsharing service entirely developed and operated by students with the financial support of ŠKODA AUTO. The student team's limited capacity and focus on development resulted in heavy deployment automation and migration from custom high maintenance and virtual machine-based solutions to cloud-based infrastructure. The proposed article unveils the challenges of this transformation and data-driven approach, pointing out specifics of an immensely successful carsharing service in the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20104 - Transport engineering

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the FISITA 2021 World Congress

ISBN

978-1-9160259-2-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

FISITA - International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies

Place of publication

London

Event location

Praha

Event date

Sep 14, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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