The UK faces significant transport challenges: cutting emissions, boosting air quality, delivering on equality, reducing car dependency including in rural areas and making its citizens healthier. All this while recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and the swing towards motorised transport the last year has delivered.
Shared transport such as car, bike, flexible bus, lift share and (hopefully in the future e-scooter) schemes deliver directly on this agenda.
CoMoUK’s vision for shared transport to play its full role in making UK cities and regions holding elections in spring 2021 a greener, fairer and healthier country. We are a registered charity, dedicated to the public benefit of shared transport. We play a collective role with authorities across the capital and shared transport operators across the car, bike, e scooter, lift share and flexible bus sectors.
Shared transport is popular and growing. There are hundreds of thousands of people across the UK using shared transport options every year.
It is also a way of cutting transport costs for many people. Most car club members in the UK use a vehicle less than 5 times a year, meaning car ownership would be a hugely disproportionate, expensive option for them.
Areas can and should go further with shared transport, with one coherent framework and policy toolkit for all shared transport modes that integrates them with public transport, active travel and spatial planning to achieve the change the country needs on air quality, congestion, quality of place and parking.
This document sets out CoMoUK’s ambitions for the next governments across the country in these elections, in turn helping to create a greener, fairer and healthier country overall.
