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MOBIshuttle: Dresden's On-Demand Ride-Pooling Pilot

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Dresden's on-demand vans cost €12.02 per passenger. The operator's report could show a shift away from the car only in outline, and the city could not afford to keep them running.

Outcome🪦 Failed
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byDresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB); vehicles and drivers contracted to CleverShuttle at launch, booking platform and app by Via
Scale🧪 Pilot
Cost€6.5 million for the two-and-a-half-year trial including vehicles and software, of which almost €3.3 million from the federal transport ministry and about €780,000 from Saxony (DVB figures reported in October 2024)
FundingFederal grant from the programme 'Digitalisierung kommunaler Verkehrssysteme' plus funds from the Free State of Saxony; the remainder carried by the DVB, supported by its parent Technische Werke Dresden and the city budget, on the basis of a city council resolution.

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Approved by the city council in December 2021, MOBIshuttle was the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe's on-demand pilot: riders booked a shared electric van by app or phone, and routing software pooled trips with similar times and routes, without a timetable. It ran from 8 June 2022 until December 2024 in Klotzsche, Pieschen and Neustadt, with Weixdorf added in its second year, using up to 13 electric vehicles; CleverShuttle supplied vehicles and drivers at launch and Via the platform and app. The fare was steered by algorithm: no surcharge where the bus or tram trip took more than twice as long, a surcharge where line service was good. In 75% of trips riders paid the normal fare. Operating costs averaged €12.02 per passenger, well above Dresden's bus routes.

Completed 📅 2022–2024

📊 Impact

In a survey of 1,486 riders, 20% said they would otherwise have used a private car and 50% a bus or tram. The DVB's report credits the pilot with 110,000 avoided car trips and 97.7 tonnes of CO2 saved, without stating how it arrived at either figure, and concedes that shifts away from the car could be shown only in outline. The service was not continued after the pilot: the DVB says the city's strained finances did not allow it.

🎓 Lesson

The pilot's own evaluation shows the trap of sizing an on-demand trial to its budget. The 10-minute waiting-time goal was not met because more vehicles would have been needed than the project could afford, and 52% of kilometres were empty runs between bookings; the report reckons pooling would rise markedly from a fleet of about 50 vehicles. Its conclusion is blunter: on-demand transport alone cannot carry enough passengers at acceptable cost to shift trips away from the private car. A trial kept below the scale at which it might become efficient ends up measuring its cost per passenger rather than its potential.

🚲 MobilityPublic transportShared mobility

Sources

↗ Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021)City press release on the council resolution of 16 December 2021 to introduce an on-demand service integrated into public transport as a pilot, run by the DVB. Describes booking by app or phone, pooling by routing software, the dynamic surcharge that rises where line service is better, the pilot area (Neustadt, Pieschen, Klotzsche, with Weixdorf in the second year) and the planned funding: €3.25 million in federal and state grants, €3.92 million remaining for the DVB in 2022–2024.
↗ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — bewegt! customer magazine 2/2022 (English edition): MOBIshuttles underway in the north of DresdenPublished 2022The DVB's customer magazine introducing the service in June 2022: five battery-electric Nissan Evalia e-NV200 vans, about 2,800 virtual stops, and the division of labour — CleverShuttle provides vehicles and drivers, Via the platform and app.
↗ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)The DVB's final project report. Gives the operating period (8 June 2022 to 31 December 2024), up to 13 electric vehicles, the fare rule, ridership, a rider survey (n=1,486), operating cost of €12.02 per passenger, 52% empty kilometres, the unmet 10-minute waiting-time goal, the figures of 110,000 avoided car trips and 97.7 tonnes of CO2, and the conclusion that on-demand transport alone cannot shift trips from the car at acceptable cost. Lists the Saxon ministry for economic affairs, labour and transport as funder.
↗ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — MOBIshuttle project page: Danke für Ihre Fahrt mit dem MOBIshuttle!The DVB's page after the pilot: it ran from 8 June 2022 to 30 December 2024 in Klotzsche, Weixdorf, Pieschen and Neustadt, carried more than 350,000 passengers, was financed by the federal programme 'Digitalisierung kommunaler Verkehrssysteme', the Free State of Saxony and the city, and could not be continued because of the city's strained finances. Mentions V2X tests in which the vans influenced some test traffic lights.
↗ Radio Dresden — Goodbye MOBIshuttle: Geld für Weiterbetrieb fehlt (8 Oct 2024)Local radio report that the pilot ends at the close of 2024 for lack of follow-on funding, quoting DVB spokesman Falk Lösch. Gives total trial cost of €6.5 million including vehicles and software, almost €3.3 million from the federal transport ministry and about €780,000 from Saxony, and daily riders rising from almost 100 to about 550.
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↗ Radio Dresden — Dresdner wollen MOBIshuttles retten (16 Nov 2024)Local radio report on a change.org petition, then signed by around 1,500 people, asking the city and the Free State to fund the service beyond 2024; says it is being ended for cost reasons.
↗ Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht 2024 mit BestätigungsvermerkPublished 16 May 2025The DVB's audited 2024 annual accounts and management report. States that the MOBIshuttle pilot ended in December 2024 after two and a half years.

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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: 2022–2024. 5 of 7 sources carry a publication date, from 17 December 2021 to 16 May 2025.

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  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden · city governmentLandeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021)
  2. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) · operatorDresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — bewegt! customer magazine 2/2022 (English edition): MOBIshuttles underway in the north of Dresden
  3. Radio Dresden · pressRadio Dresden — Goodbye MOBIshuttle: Geld für Weiterbetrieb fehlt (8 Oct 2024)
  4. Radio Dresden · pressRadio Dresden — Dresdner wollen MOBIshuttles retten (16 Nov 2024)
  5. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) · operatorDresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht 2024 mit Bestätigungsvermerk

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Claim 1 clm-aa34f31caf1e540a quantitative
Approved by the city council in December 2021
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What the mapping says
The city announced that the council decided on 16 December 2021 to introduce an on-demand service integrated into public transport as a pilot.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021)
Claim 2 clm-a401224daeaf9dc2 descriptive
riders booked a shared electric van by app or phone, and routing software pooled trips with similar times and routes, without a timetable
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What the mapping says
The city describes booking by smartphone app or phone, routing software that works out the routes, and passengers with similar times and routes riding in the same vehicle, with no timetable or fixed route; the project report confirms electric vehicles and booking via app or phone.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021)
  2. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 3 clm-5344f73c364733e3 quantitative
It ran from 8 June 2022 until December 2024
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What the mapping says
The project report gives 8 June 2022 as the start and 31 December 2024 as the end; the audited 2024 accounts say the pilot ended in December 2024 after two and a half years.
Caveat
The project report gives 31 December 2024 as the last day, the operator's web page 30 December 2024.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
  2. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht 2024 mit Bestätigungsvermerk
  3. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — MOBIshuttle project page: Danke für Ihre Fahrt mit dem MOBIshuttle!
Claim 4 clm-7c0ff7540788b65a descriptive
in Klotzsche, Pieschen and Neustadt, with Weixdorf added in its second year
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What the mapping says
The city named Neustadt, Pieschen and Klotzsche as the pilot area, with Weixdorf to be included in the second project year; the report lists all four as the test area.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021)
  2. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 5 clm-9226410189fe5a5f quantitative
using up to 13 electric vehicles
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What the mapping says
The report states that up to 13 electrically powered vehicles were in service in the test area.
Caveat
The service began with five vans, according to the operator's 2022 customer magazine.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 6 clm-8b3762d55bfdd919 descriptive
CleverShuttle supplied vehicles and drivers at launch and Via the platform and app
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What the mapping says
The operator's 2022 magazine names CleverShuttle as provider of vehicles and drivers and Via as provider of the platform and app.
Caveat
The project report shows that the driving contract changed hands in November 2023; it does not name the new contractor in text.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — bewegt! customer magazine 2/2022 (English edition): MOBIshuttles underway in the north of Dresden
Claim 7 clm-5bbaabb70a03d67d descriptive
no surcharge where the bus or tram trip took more than twice as long, a surcharge where line service was good
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What the mapping says
The report explains that the algorithm compared door-to-door travel times: where the line-service journey took more than twice as long, a public-transport gap was assumed and no comfort surcharge charged; on routes well served by tram and bus a surcharge applied, higher the better the service.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 8 clm-f1111e6bb6d073c4 quantitative
In 75% of trips riders paid the normal fare
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What the mapping says
The report states that in 75% of all trips users travelled at the regular VVO fare without a comfort surcharge.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 9 clm-efc9609fc9907907 quantitative
Operating costs averaged €12.02 per passenger, well above Dresden's bus routes
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What the mapping says
The report gives average operating costs (vehicles, energy, drivers) of €12.02 per passenger, clearly higher than on Dresden's bus routes, and says less busy areas would have meant even higher costs per passenger.
Caveat
Operating costs only; the report gives no figure for the bus routes it compares with.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 10 clm-a2a299685dcf94d2 quantitative
In a survey of 1,486 riders, 20% said they would otherwise have used a private car and 50% a bus or tram
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What the mapping says
The report's rider survey (n=1,486) asked which mode people would have used without MOBIshuttle: 50% line services, 20% a private car, 11% taxi, the rest bike, sharing, walking or not travelling.
Caveat
A survey of app users who chose to answer, run for the operator; it records what riders say they would have done.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 11 clm-89908be8bae8b741 quantitative
The DVB's report credits the pilot with 110,000 avoided car trips and 97.7 tonnes of CO2 saved, without stating how it arrived at either figure
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What the mapping says
The report states that 110,000 car trips were avoided during the project and, given the electric drive, 97.7 tonnes of CO2 saved. It does not explain how either figure was calculated.
Caveat
An operator estimate with no stated method; it is presumably derived from the rider survey, but the report does not say so.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 12 clm-25c415e8e47309e2 descriptive
concedes that shifts away from the car could be shown only in outline
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What the mapping says
The report says that in the pilot the shift effects could be demonstrated only in outline, and that the larger effects in its outlook are the result of a model forecast.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 13 clm-c480c63b31d424e7 descriptive
The service was not continued after the pilot: the DVB says the city's strained finances did not allow it
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What the mapping says
The operator's page states that MOBIshuttle could not be continued after the project ended because of the city's strained finances; in October 2024 a DVB spokesman told local radio the pilot had to end for lack of follow-on funding.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — MOBIshuttle project page: Danke für Ihre Fahrt mit dem MOBIshuttle!
  2. Radio Dresden — Goodbye MOBIshuttle: Geld für Weiterbetrieb fehlt (8 Oct 2024)
Claim 14 clm-ad48dc5d601c6b9c quantitative
The 10-minute waiting-time goal was not met because more vehicles would have been needed than the project could afford
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What the mapping says
The report states that the target of at most 10 minutes' wait for spontaneous bookings was not reached, because it would have required more vehicles than was economically possible within the project.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 15 clm-fc94ae503728f94d quantitative
52% of kilometres were empty runs between bookings
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What the mapping says
The report states that 52% of the distance driven consisted of operational runs between trip orders, such as driving to pick up a passenger.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 16 clm-182897f222345f73 quantitative
the report reckons pooling would rise markedly from a fleet of about 50 vehicles
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What the mapping says
The report argues that with a fleet of about 50 vehicles or more and greater demand, the pooling rate would rise markedly and empty kilometres fall; it notes the pilot ran at most 13 vehicles for economic reasons.
Caveat
The report's own expectation, supported by reference to other projects; the pilot never ran at that size.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
Claim 17 clm-fd3e984166980f3f descriptive
on-demand transport alone cannot carry enough passengers at acceptable cost to shift trips away from the private car
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What the mapping says
The report's outlook states that the pilot clearly showed on-demand transport alone cannot carry passenger volumes large enough, at justifiable cost, to achieve a significant modal shift from the private car.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB); vehicles and drivers contracted to CleverShuttle at launch, booking platform and app by Via
Actor types
utility, city-government, private
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
Federal grant from the programme 'Digitalisierung kommunaler Verkehrssysteme' plus funds from the Free State of Saxony; the remainder carried by the DVB, supported by its parent Technische Werke Dresden and the city budget, on the basis of a city council resolution.
Cost
€6.5 million for the two-and-a-half-year trial including vehicles and software, of which almost €3.3 million from the federal transport ministry and about €780,000 from Saxony (DVB figures reported in October 2024)
Ownership
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Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Pressemitteilung: MOBIshuttle startet 2022 als Pilotprojekt (17 Dec 2021) dresden.de · 3 linked claims

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City press release on the council resolution of 16 December 2021 to introduce an on-demand service integrated into public transport as a pilot, run by the DVB. Describes booking by app or phone, pooling by routing software, the dynamic surcharge that rises where line service is better, the pilot area (Neustadt, Pieschen, Klotzsche, with Weixdorf in the second year) and the planned funding: €3.25 million in federal and state grants, €3.92 million remaining for the DVB in 2022–2024.

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — bewegt! customer magazine 2/2022 (English edition): MOBIshuttles underway in the north of Dresden dvb.de · 1 linked claim

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The DVB's customer magazine introducing the service in June 2022: five battery-electric Nissan Evalia e-NV200 vans, about 2,800 virtual stops, and the division of labour — CleverShuttle provides vehicles and drivers, Via the platform and app.

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Projektbericht MOBIshuttle: Flexible Mobilität für ein lebenswertes Dresden (project report, editorial close November 2024) dvb.de · 14 linked claims

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The DVB's final project report. Gives the operating period (8 June 2022 to 31 December 2024), up to 13 electric vehicles, the fare rule, ridership, a rider survey (n=1,486), operating cost of €12.02 per passenger, 52% empty kilometres, the unmet 10-minute waiting-time goal, the figures of 110,000 avoided car trips and 97.7 tonnes of CO2, and the conclusion that on-demand transport alone cannot shift trips from the car at acceptable cost. Lists the Saxon ministry for economic affairs, labour and transport as funder.

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — MOBIshuttle project page: Danke für Ihre Fahrt mit dem MOBIshuttle! dvb.de · 2 linked claims

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The DVB's page after the pilot: it ran from 8 June 2022 to 30 December 2024 in Klotzsche, Weixdorf, Pieschen and Neustadt, carried more than 350,000 passengers, was financed by the federal programme 'Digitalisierung kommunaler Verkehrssysteme', the Free State of Saxony and the city, and could not be continued because of the city's strained finances. Mentions V2X tests in which the vans influenced some test traffic lights.

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Radio Dresden — Goodbye MOBIshuttle: Geld für Weiterbetrieb fehlt (8 Oct 2024) radiodresden.de · 1 linked claim

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Local radio report that the pilot ends at the close of 2024 for lack of follow-on funding, quoting DVB spokesman Falk Lösch. Gives total trial cost of €6.5 million including vehicles and software, almost €3.3 million from the federal transport ministry and about €780,000 from Saxony, and daily riders rising from almost 100 to about 550.

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Radio Dresden — Dresdner wollen MOBIshuttles retten (16 Nov 2024) radiodresden.de · background

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Local radio report on a change.org petition, then signed by around 1,500 people, asking the city and the Free State to fund the service beyond 2024; says it is being ended for cost reasons.

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Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) — Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht 2024 mit Bestätigungsvermerk dvb.de · 1 linked claim

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The DVB's audited 2024 annual accounts and management report. States that the MOBIshuttle pilot ended in December 2024 after two and a half years.

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🇺🇸 MARTA Reach On-Demand Transit · Atlanta On-demand pilots that ended: MARTA stopped Reach on schedule in 2022 as ridership grew; Dresden's MOBIshuttle ran out of city money. 🇩🇪 MOBIpunkte: Dresden's Mobility Hubs · Dresden Same MOBI brand: the hubs are still running; the on-demand MOBIshuttle pilot ended in December 2024.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “MOBIshuttle: Dresden's On-Demand Ride-Pooling Pilot” — Dresden, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/dresden-mobishuttle/ (last verified 2026-11-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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