Rebecca Karbaumer is an urbanite who’s passionate about creating sustainable, liveable and socially equitable cities. As a shared mobility and mobility management specialist at the City of Bremen’s Ministry for Construction, Mobility and Housing Development (Germany), she is responsible for creating shared mobility and innovative mobility management policies/parking norms, implementing Bremen’s Carsharing strategies and coordinating various European transport projects on sustainable mobility.
She studied Environmental Science and Environmental Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (2006) in the United States and earned her Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Development at the University of Bremen in 2012. She is a strong proponent of the approach that, in order to build a sustainable future, mobility planning strategies must focus on moving people and goods rather than vehicles. Low-tech solutions such as walking, cycling and collective transport best help meet citizens’ daily mobility needs while using resources – including space – effectively, efficiently and fairly.
Rebecca is always keen to share her expertise with other cities who are working on establishing shared mobility governance strategies, is co-author of Shared Mobility Rocks: A Planner’s Guide to the Shared Mobility Galaxy and serving Member of the Board for the Mobility Cooperative in Switzerland.
Selected publications or texts
Most recently: Shared Mobility Rocks: A Planner’s Guide to the Shared Mobility Galaxy (available in English, German, Swedish and Dutch here: https://share-north.eu/the-guide/)
Selected speaking engagements
- 2018-2024 Shared Mobility Rocks Symposium (Aalst, Brussels, online, Bremen, Vancouver, Brussels)
- 04.2024 Flemish Inspiration Day – Shared Mobility in Housing Developments (Ghent)
- 04.2024 Thematic Evening on Carsharing hosted by the German Working Group for Mobility and Transport of the Green Party (BAG MoVe)
- 01.2024 Symposium on Win-Win-Wins for Integrating Carsharing into Real Estate Developments – Co-host together with the German Carsharing Association (Bundesverband CarSharing e.V.) (Bremen)
- Various Webinars including: Carsharing Integration into Housing Developments (11.04.2024), VCÖ Webinar on Shared Mobility Strategies (16.07.2024)
- 06.2023 Agora Stadtgespräche (Hamburg)
- 05.2023 Velo City Conference Plenary Session (Leipzig)
Awards and recognitions
2021 TUMI Remarkable Women in Mobility
2020 Empower Women in Shared Mobility