About CoMoUK

Who we are

CoMoUK is the national organisation for shared transport, a charity for promoting its social, economic and environmental benefits.

Shared transport means schemes such as car clubs and bike share where people can use a mode of transport without having to own it.

We work collaboratively with national, regional, transport and local authorities as well as the private sector to further these public benefits.

We do this via research, operator accreditation, stakeholder engagement, policy work and advocacy.

CoMoUK supports the development of shared modes:

Car share
Bike share
E-scooter share
Lift share
Digital demand responsive transport
Mobility hubs that bring shared, active and public transport together

Our work and funding

A brief history of CoMoUK and shared transport

1998

First on-street car club launches in Edinburgh followed by community schemes in Leeds, Coventry and Bristol

2000

First funding to support nascent car clubs from DfT

2003

8 London boroughs launch first permanent on-street bays

2008

Transport for London launches funding for on-street bays leading to significant growth

2011

Carplus Scotland office opened and support programme for car club development agreed with Transport Scotland

2014

Free-floating car sharing launched in London

2016

First integrated car club and bike share launched in Devon

2019

CoMoUK turns 20, with work expanded to include promotion of mobility hubs and analysing the potential of shared mobility to deliver on public policy goals

2023

CoMoUK diversifies its funding streams with a shift to supporting more authorities through consultancy work. CoMoUK successfully lobbied to overturn the ban on car clubs being able to use future EV chargepoints funded by taxpayers and secured unique preferential treatment for car clubs in the ZEV mandate.

1999

CoMoUK created as Community Car Share Network (CCSN)

2002

Car club scheme launched in Brighton & Hove and CCSN changes name to Carplus

2007

First self-service bike share in Cardiff and Reading

2010

London docked bike share scheme launched

2013

Bike share launches in 9 new cities: Glasgow, Oxford, Liverpool, Reading, Lincoln, Northampton, Bath and Slough

2015

Carplus expands to support bike share development with Bikeplus brand and first on-street e-bike scheme launched in Oxford

2017

Carplus name changes to CoMoUK widening remit to promote all aspects of shared mobility. First social inclusion bike share programme launches in Glasgow, first dockless bikes arrive in UK

2021

CoMoUK increases its coverage to include e-scooters and DDRT, as shared transport continues to grow and authorities increasingly embed shared transport in their plans

2024

CoMoUK turns 25 and embarks on its first projects specifically focused on the needs of disabled people, one in car club and one in shared micromobility. By April there are almost 800,000 car club users, over 4.4 million bike share users and over 3.3 million shared e-scooter users. The first wave of Government-funded mobility hubs emerge in the autumn.

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