Klaas Hauke Baumgärtel

Real time minor damage identification system and its validation in a fleet test

The demand for mobility in modern communities is rising. As a result, car rental and car sharing companies have been growing rapidly during the last years. As a consequence, also the number of car sharing customers is increasing constantly and very fast. In September 2014 the total number of car sharing customers in Germany exceeded 1 million [1] ‒ compared to 760,000 at the beginning of 2014, an increase of approx. 240,000 in only 9 months. Hence, a further growth can be expected in the upcoming years. Some information on car sharing is given in table 1.