Green Move: A Platform for Highly Configurable, Heterogeneous Electric Vehicle Sharing

Vehicle sharing in urban areas has the potential to be the answer to some of the main issues that hinder the spreading of electric vehicles, in particular for what concerns the high upfront costs of the vehicles, combined with their still limited range, which can induce phenomena such as range anxiety. For its potential to be realized, vehicle sharing must be tailored to the multiform needs of its users by offering a wide range of support services that can be selected based on the user preferences. In this paper we present the platform for vehicle sharing developed in the Green Move project, which allows services to be dynamically loaded and unloaded on vehicles, and describe a pair of prototype applications to illustrate its benefits.