Shared mobility app for more equal communities and smarter cities in Padua

By providing a marketplace, volvero connects owners and drivers to effectively bring to use underutilized vehicles and provide an extensive range of efficient mobility possibilities to drivers. Through the volvero app one can rent from a vast variety of vehicles such as cars, campers, e-bikes and scooters and/or make their own vehicle available for rent. Thanks to the use of smart contracts, a unique insurance is activated for each rent and covers drivers and all types of vehicles during the entire sharing period. Moreover, the system keeps track of users’ driving style, vehicle performance and owner ratings, so that each user can decide from and to whom to rent their vehicle.

Having this access to transportation enhances people’s well-being by giving them freedom to move and more possibilities, thereby reducing social inequalities related to access to transport. At the same time, both private and commercial owners can significantly reduce their vehicles’ costs and therefore make ownership more feasible. Car rentals and dealers can switch from the outworn business model to a profitable modern one. 

With volvero, fewer vehicles enter cities, as each individual vehicle is utilized more, raising the actual average use of the vehicles and favouring a faster turnover of older cars instead to newer, less-polluting vehicles. These factors entail a reduction in pollution and traffic jams, reducing the need for urban space for parking areas, and thus converting these spaces into more useful and productive facilities. The volvero service tries to respond to different needs, with a view to promote mobility of everyone and for everyone.