Catch a car

Catch a Car AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	April 9, 2014
resolution	June 30, 2019
Reason for dissolution	Integration in mobility
Seat	Rotkreuz ZG
management	René Maeder
Branch	car sharing
Website	www.catch-a-car.ch

The Catch a Car AG was the first provider of stationsungebundenem car sharing in Switzerland. The offer enabled the organized shared use of the catch cars without a fixed location / parking space. In 2019, Catch a Car was integrated into the mobility system. The brand was no longer continued.

functionality

The vehicles can without an appointment on the phone - application or locally via QR Code Checkpoint will be posted on the windshield. Once the reservation has been sent to the vehicle, the vehicle can be opened and used with the member card or the SwissPass . After the journey, the car can be parked in an authorized parking space. After paying a one-time registration fee, trips are billed individually. The system differentiates between parking and driving times and bills by the minute.

history

Car sharing has been offered in Switzerland since 1948. In 2014, Catch a Car was founded as a subsidiary of the car sharing provider Mobility Genossenschaft in Basel with 100 VW up! launched. Catch a Car was the first Swiss car sharing offer without fixed stations. Allianz and AMAG are also involved as investors . The strategic partners include SBB and EnergieSchweiz . The number of 100 vehicles stationed in Basel was increased to 120 in 2015. The two-year pilot phase, which ended at the beginning of 2016, was scientifically supported by ETH Zurich . ETH Zurich analyzed the effects of the offer on the mobility behavior of individual members. In 2018, the fleet in Basel was increased by 30 to 150 vehicles, including electric cars for the first time .

Since November 2016, Catch a Car has also been stationed in Geneva with 100 vehicles powered by CO ₂ -neutral natural gas. Station-independent car sharing could counteract this scarcity, as the existing vehicles are used more efficiently.

At the beginning of 2019, Mobility announced that it would take over 100% of the shares in Catch a Car AG and integrate the service into Mobility. The offer has been available under the title “Mobility Go” and offered in the Mobility app since July 2019. The Catch a Car brand was discontinued.

In March 2019, Mobility announced that it would reduce its expensive electric car fleet from 30 to 10 vehicles.

Web links

• Catch a Car AG website
• Dejan Nikolic: "Catch a car peut être 40% moins cher qu'Uber". In: Le Temps . October 20, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
• Geneva car share scheme could help reduce city traffic. October 21, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
• Michel Schultheiss: “Catch a Car” wants to conquer other cities from Basel. In: day week . April 13, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
• Samuel Hufschmid: The future of car sharing in Basel has begun. 20 minutes . August 25, 2014, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
• Erich Aschwanden: Spontaneous car sharing in Switzerland too. In: NZZ . June 23, 2014, accessed March 4, 2017 . 
• “Catch a Car” after a pilot project in Basel also in other cities. In: Aargauer Zeitung . April 13, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Catch a Car goes into Mobility , media release from January 31, 2019.
2. ↑ SBB: Catch a Car - the first free floating car sharing in Switzerland. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ "Catch-Car" in the App Store. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Catch-Car - Android apps on Google Play. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Henrik Becker, Francesco Ciari: Car-sharing in Switzerland - comparison of user groups . Ed .: 15th Swiss Transport Research Conference. Ascona April 15, 2015 ( Online [PDF]).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Milos Balac, Francesco Ciari, Kay W. Axhausen: Modeling the impact of parking price policy on free-floating carsharing: Case study for Zurich, Switzerland . In: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies . tape 77 , January 26, 2017, ISSN  0968-090X , p. 207–225 , doi : 10.1016 / j.trc.2017.01.022 .
7. ↑ Michel Schultheiss: “Catch a Car” wants to conquer other cities from Basel . In: day week . ( Online [accessed February 22, 2017]).
8. ↑ ETH Zurich: Summary of the ETH study. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . 
9. ^ Office for Mobility of the Canton of Basel-Stadt - Catch a Car. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ First electric cars in station-independent car sharing. (PDF) In: catch-a-car.ch. April 11, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018 . 
11. ↑ SBB: Catch a Car - the first free floating car sharing in Switzerland. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Michael Müller: Electromobility - clear cutting in the electric fleet of "Catch a Car". In: srf.ch. March 14, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019 .