The government has reached an agreement with the remaining rural municipalities for the use of the deelauto’s economy. The agreement was signed by the twenty-rural municipalities, the minister Stientje van Veldhoven (Environment and Housing), and a dozen other of the parties. The arrangements should ensure that, in the Netherlands in 2021 100.000 deelauto’s count, with a minimum of 700.000 users. According to the latest figures, more than 500,000 units of the Dutch use of the deelauto.
The government wants to make use of the deelauto’s of boost, because the car in the suburban parking ratios be reduced. According to the government are the cars now have an average of 23 out of 24 hours a day, and that it is a waste of space, writes to the minister of finance.
in Addition, the share of cars to lower emissions of pollutants such as CO2, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides. This will increase the quality of the air in the long term to improve, according to the government. In addition, the promotion of the deelauto is desirable, because the accessibility is improving for people who do not own a car.
To make use of to boost the cabinet wants to park the car for deelauto’s cheap to make and companies to encourage them to do so. Also, for those who just got a driver’s license, have passed the car, free of charge, to try it.
“the location and the quality of life, are the major problems in the rural areas. I think that in the car, in combination with, for example, a train, a bus, and an electric bike is really a custom-made solution can be offered. We are working as rural in order to see how the parts of the vehicle to us can help,” says councillor Theo) Meskers, of the municipality of Hollands Kroon.
“more and more people to share cars, and I think that’s a good thing. For the environment and for our clean air, but also as a solution for people who don’t own cars or for whom public transport but part of the solution,” added the minister, Of Motion and matter.