LiMo 2030 Sustainable urban Living and Mobility Concept

Car parks are increasingly competing with living space and green areas. Due to climate change and the associated heating of urban areas, green spaces (with shade-giving deciduous trees) are becoming essential for survival. LiMo aims to combine living and mobility in a practical, cost-effective and sustainable way—with a vehicle concept that (virtually) no longer needs a parking space. How can this work? When a vehicle is no longer in use, it has to be parked somewhere. The trick as to why it still works is the modular design of the vehicle cabin and chassis. The LiMo concept developed at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences consists of a multifunctional cabin that can not only be integrated into different transport systems (road, rail, elevated railway, cable car), but also offers a significant additional benefit in conjunction with the building, namely a living space extension that can be used like a mini conservatory. If you want to be individually mobile, you can use an app to book a chassis that comes along autonomously and waits until the cabin and its occupants travel downwards via a sophisticated rail system, dock and head for the desired destination. LiMo combines the advantages of a private car (its own passenger compartment) with the traffic-related benefits of car sharing—all of which is convenient (barrier-free), sustainable (parking spaces become green spaces) and cost-effective (no underground car parks required).