Legislation and policy (at the local level) include embedding car sharing into the city’s overall transport and urban development strategy including integrating it into neighbourhood parking management. This can be done by lowering minimum parking standards in new developments if car sharing is provided to new residents by the developer.
In 2009, the city of Bremen was the first to politically pass a car sharing action plan (Stadt Bremen 2009), which set a goal of quadrupling its car sharing membership from the 2009 level of 5,100 users to 20,000 by 2020. The action plan identified a series of actions to take to achieve this goal, including all of the ones named here. By 2014, the number of customers had increased to almost 10,000.