Q: An easy one to start, what is collaborative mobility?

A: The success story of car-sharing, more than almost any other innovation in transport, has in recent years marked the onset of a new way of organising every-day transport, widely referred to as “collaborative mobility”. New peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are being established between collective and individual transport in which the citizen liberates his mobility from the private purchase of a mobility tool, such as an automobile, while at the same time looking beyond just one or a few major suppliers to satisfy his mobility needs.

Private car-sharers, multinational ride-sharing companies, bike-sharing operators, parking-space platforms, long distance bus transport providers, taxi-apps and so-called transport network companies are all advocates of this new kind of mobility organisation.

Q: Could you tell us about wocomoco?

A: The World Collaborative Mobility Congress was created by the Swiss Mobility Academy in 2013 as a unique and new platform on shared or collaborative mobility.

The mission of the wocomoco is to bring innovation to everyday mobility by promoting a shared use of transport products, services and infrastructures, thus stimulating a new global market for collaborative mobility solutions.

Q: What is the aim of the Congress?

A: To bring together, on an annual basis, organisations and individuals from the public and private sector involved in developing, marketing and regulating collaborative mobility solutions. To engage co-mobility leaders from across the world, get them to interact and jointly shape a new global market for collaborative mobility products, services and infrastructures.

Q: What is planned for the 2016 edition of the Congress?

A: Following its successful launch in 2013 and its 2^nd and 3^rd edition in 2014 and 2015, the mobility academy is now further enlarging the Congress for 2016 and 2017, expanding both its outreach and partnerships. After Switzerland and Austria, the 4^th World Collaborative Mobility Congress will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on 7-8 September 2016. A two-day event with keynotes, presentations, debates, exhibitions and excursions, also offering unique opportunities for making new contacts, catalysing dialogues and highlighting success-stories, focusing in particular on the Eastern European comobility market.

For more information on collaborative mobility and the wocomoco, go to www.wocomoco.org