Sustainable approach to car-sharing services

Authors

V. Jirovský, Czech Technical University in Prague

Summary

In 2015, three Prague universities together with akoda Auto started a student project on finding a sustainable concept of a car-sharing service. In 2018 the service entirely designed, developed and operated by students went into life under its own brand name - Uniqway. It overcame harsh covid seasons and proved capability of return to pre-covid numbers in just two weeks after the covid restrictions were abolished. However, at the beginning 2023 the service was suspended by its investor akoda Auto Digilab. The explanation for such step was project's business unsustainability. The proposed paper summarizes outcomes of the project, which outline several aspects of sustainable car-sharing service, though they were not applied in Uniqway.
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