In more and more municipalities can take advantage of those interested in carpooling. Large automobile companies entering the market, especially in big cities.

4561 vehicles of the German car-sharing Flotto E-cars. At least 8 per cent photo: Gerald Matzka/dpa

BERLIN taz | no more than 400 meters to the next Station with a car – this is the Federal Association of car sharing, in the 171 providers are organized wishes. Because this distance accept potential users. Municipalities should comprehensively set up pitches, called for the managing Director Gunnar Nehrke at the presentation of the current car sharing Numbers in Berlin. With the new road traffic regulations in the Federal Council, are important prerequisites, such as the introduction of an appropriate Traffic sign to be created.

The Association sees car-sharing as part of the shift in Traffic. The idea: Who can rent a car for cheap, you need to have none. To be offered at the beginning of this year, 226 companies, a total of 25.400 car, which was 25.7 percent more vehicles, and 45 more vendors than in the previous year. "There are still very few vehicles in comparison to the national car fleet of 47 million vehicles," said Nehrke. The number of municipalities Offered with car-sharing has grown to 100 to 840. In 95 percent of large cities, there are car-sharing offers, but only in 4.3 percent of the municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants. But at least 445 towns. "In rural areas, car sharing is often carried out by voluntary associations or by municipalities subsidised," he said.

In 17 large cities, in addition to car sharing with pick-up stations, so-called Free-floating offers, in which customers ' vehicles digital places and free Parking can. Although these offers have not been extended to 2019 to other cities, but the number of the provided cars has risen by almost 50 percent to 13,400.

reason is the market entry of new suppliers from the car industry such as Volkswagen and classic car hire, Sixt, said Nehrke. Users register for Free-floating rental often from multiple vendors. Daimler and BMW have merged your Sharing-daughters and their customers together. Therefore, the number of registered users in the case of Free-floating fell Offered to 230.00 to 1.58 million. The number of users in the stationary car-sharing, by contrast, increased from 60,000 to its 710.000.