The trigger is pulled: the new carsharing service in Budapest
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Index.hu reports that, according to a recently accepted legislation related to transportation, BKK (Budapest Transport Centre) has to work out the regulations of the carsharing services in Budapest. However, MOL also wants to benefit from the carsharing industry, and the only participant at the market so far fears that it will be supplanted from the system, because the legislation will not be based on a consensus.
What is the carsharing service about?
The carsharing service is a form of transportation that has already fulfilled the expectations in 16 European cities. Its essence is similar to the public bike services. After doing the registration and paying the registration fee at the only carsharing company so far in Budapest, the Greengo, users can choose a car through an application that can be found at the station the closest to the user. After typing the code into the app, they can go for the car and use it until they reach their destination where they have to leave it at the station. All for 65 Ft/minute, that is 0.2 euros.
This is how you can see the closest available car /facebook/GreenGo/The legislation authorizes the local governments, the Budapest City Council in the capital, to work out the regulations concerning the installation of the system, its maintenance and its operation. Furthermore, it is the City Council that has to give the responsibility of the maintenance of the new system to the BKK.
Kálmán Dabóczy, the chief executive officer of the BKK, reported that the company promises to work out the regulations concerning the public carsharing service by the first half of the next year.
He pointed out that the system would not be composed of individually-operating companies, but would operate as an integrated service system. Similarly to the Mol Bubi public bike service, it is going to be indicated in the BKK Futár application, too, and they are going to inform the passengers about this service as well.Â
Although Dabóczy did not want to reveal the name of the collaborating company, he did not refute that it is the Mol company. Thus, it is not a surprise that Mol was working so hard for the installation of the public bike system, as probably, it wants to have a share in the public carsharing system, too. Mol has recently put the Mol Limo stickers onto the cars that are going to operate in the new carsharing system. Based on this, the Mol Limo is going to be the new Mol Bubi.
