A service that brings together, in a single interface, the majority of carsharing services. But that's not all: it books a taxi and finds the nearest Wi-Fi.
The services available for shared mobility are on the rise. Bike, scooter and carsharing are spreading, at least in Italy's major cities. Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and Naples offer the possibility of getting around without using a private vehicle.
Hence the idea of a group of young graduates. Why not create a free application, with no registration required, that brings together the main sharing services for cars, bikes or other vehicles available to users, and that also allows a taxi to be booked when needed?
This is how EveryRide came about — an app capable of providing this service, available since last December for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. The application allows users to see, in real time on a map and all at once, every vehicle made available in the cities where the service is active, and to choose the nearest one.
But that's not all. "EveryRide compares the different solutions available to reach one's destination, based on estimates of parameters such as journey time and the overall cost of the route to be travelled," explains Virginio Morra, one of the startup's founders. It also "shows electric vehicle charging stations and areas covered by free Wi-Fi on the map."
The application will also act as an intermediary between users and switchboards, thanks to an agreement with the Unione Radiotaxi d'Italia (URI). This is a solution conceived to counter the recent rise of similar transport services, which in practice are increasing supply and competition. The application thus makes it extremely easy to send a request to a taxi when needed, either via a direct call to radio taxi switchboards, a pre-filled SMS message, or through a link to the IT Taxi application.
To be precise, as noted by the Bat Sharing team, this is not the only service of its kind in Italy. The latter has also developed a similar app, available since last February. Connected to the most widely used providers, it is available for the cities of Milan — BikeMi and GuidaMi —, Florence and Rome. At this point, all that remains is to choose.