
If you question the user numbers in the areas of car, cab and local public transport you will see a way different picture in reality as you may assume because of traffic jam information, traffic overcharge and masses of people in the cities.
It’s easy to prove that less than 35 % of the population (Germany) have an own car at their disposal. In other European countries there are even less. It’s also known and proved that public transport has hardly more constant users than 10 % of the population and that cab business is still obligated to calculate with the rule of thumb “about 1 % of the people use cabs”.
All systems have arrived at their maximum of their clients’ potential however without being working in full capacity. An extension of the offer to gain new clients and to herewith broaden the infrastructure is going to be at the expense of everybody’s mobility as our traffic networks do not cope with any augmentation of capacity.
With TAXMOBIL, a new system is developed to bring more people with fewer capacities to the mobility market.
In the article „Researcher recommend dismantling in Germany’s East“ (Financial Times Germany, Friday, 24 July 2009) the author refers to a survey of the Research Centre Berlin which shows how traffic in Germany is going to develop until 2030. The article points out that traffic is going to increase by 50 – 70 ... » more