Abstract:

Women in urban areas have specific requirements for their daily mobility. Car sharing services are mostly used by men as shown in studies from different countries. This study aims for understanding specific reasons and requirements of respective trips in women's every day live to help dismantle hurdles, which hinder women to use carsharing services. This study also aims for closing the gap and understand the impact of childcare task, financial aspects, attitudes, and mode combination on the acceptance of carsharing with and without battery electric vehicles as a part of sustainable urban mobility. It investigates hurdles that are linked to gender and mobility, especially carsharing with BEVs. In this study, five cases of women living in Berlin within the business area of free-floating carsharing providers with and without battery electric vehicles will be analysed. All of them hold a drivers' licence and fit in the profile of early adopters of E-carsharing. For seven days, their trips were tracked withGPS tracking devices, while they were asked to note the circumstances of the respective trips. Women's preferences even in modern urban areas can be explained with their gender typical tasks due to their social roles. It becomes apparent, that there are gender-based hurdles in carsharing services with and without electric vehicles, which categorically exclude many women.