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Amsterdam - Holland - The attention to ecological issues has been alive in Holland for some time, so much
so that the city has some of the highest environmental quality standards in the world. Among the numer-
ous initiatives promoted at the local level for mobility, especially for cycling, a particular form of car-shar-
ing has recently begun to develop with which anyone can make their vehicle available to the community.
This new way of conceiving the sharing of private transport is achievable utilizing an online platform that
manages routes and users and thanks to a high level of civilisation of the inhabitants of the Dutch capital.

Paris - France - A project that started about two years ago, in the whole metropolitan area of the city of
Paris (about 45 municipalities), has led to the creation of a vehicle fleet consisting of about 1,700 electric
vehicles (soon to reach 3,000 vehicles) all made available to the community. In this way, it has been possi-
ble to eliminate more than 20,000 private cars from the streets of Paris, greatly reducing the impact of mo-
bility and the inconvenience of transport. The benefits obtained concerned the reduction of emissions into
the atmosphere, a reduction in vehicle traffic and the reduction of noise levels, with consequent benefits
in terms of liveability.

Venice - Italy - Venice is also a candidate to become one of the European capitals of sustainable mobility.
You may wonder how this is possible in a city where the most common means of transport is the boat?
And instead, there is a project that provides for the replacement of water buses, used as public transport,
with models equipped with hydrogen engines, completely eco-sustainable and zero impact. Renewing the
mobility of Venice would mean reducing pollution, noise and, above all, limiting the insidious action of the
wave motion that endangers the stability of the magnificent “city of water”.