Tic tac tic tac - Time to measure impacts for mobility players.
I am a convinced advocate of the shared and circular economy.
But for the past few years, countless number of mobility projects came into our life with 2 promises: freedom and sustainability.
While the first is surely a giant step forward more independence to the burdens associated with owning stuff, the second promise has stayed quite foggy in my mind.
Questions like "how better are these solutions for the environment" have resonated in my mind until I discover greenhouse gas inventories methodologies.
Here in the case of shared e-scooters in Paris, beyond the debate of road safety and bad behaviours of some users, I believe mobility players failed to demonstrate a convincing argument that their service is better for air quality in cities and makes a positive impact. Very few firms invested time to measure the real environmental impact of their services.
The result is: believe what I say because I have no evidence to prove it.
I believe it's a shame since, aligned with the conditions that these services support cleaner modes of transport and cannibalise the usage of private cars in urban areas, mobility players offer a real value added to city dwellers.
So before this Parisian case spreads to other cities like a virus, my advice for mobility firms is: Do not tell how more sustainable you are, just prove it.
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