History

Since 1975, Mpact offers solutions to do more with less: a history marked by many milestones.

2021

Taxistop becomes Mpact

Taxistop continues its journey as Mpact. The organisation stays the same, but by changing the name, our organisation is ready for the future!

2021

Shared Mobility Rocks - around the clock

Shared Mobility Rocks is an international (un)symposium with rocking vibes. Because of the Covid-19 crisis, a third physical event was not possible. Taxistop and Autodelen.net rethought the concept and created an online 24-hours marathon. They worked together with studios in every continent: Ghent, Brussels, Leeds, Lima, Chicago, Melbourne, Phnom Penh, Tokyo, Kampala and Lviv.

2021

Mobihubs in Brussels

Taxistop introduces Mobihubs in the Brussels Capital Region, by collaborating with the municipality Anderlecht. A mobihub is a physical place where different, mainly transport-related, services are offered together. Mobihubs are designed to enable multimodal transport at the neighbourhood level.

2020

Cozycar becomes Cozywheels

From 2020, Taxistop supports not only private persons, but also organisations to share (cargo) bikes, cars, vans and wheelchair friendly cars. Therefore, the name became Cozywheels.

2020

Mobihubs in Wallonia

Taxistop launches the first mobihub (point mob) in the French speaking part of Belgium, together with the city of Wavre.

2019

Launch Mobipunt vzw

To support the Flemish region in their plan to create 1.000 mobihubs, Taxistop, together with Autodelen.net and Infopunt Publieke Ruimte established a new association called Mobipunt vzw.

2019

Mobitwin

The name for our on-demand transport service for elderly becomes Mobitwin in Wallonia. Via this service, elderly people request a ride offered by our network of voluntary drivers.

2018

Shared Mobility Rocks

First edition of the unconventional conference, organised by Taxistop and Autodelen.net

2018

Mobitwin in Brussels

Taxistop creates a regional Mobitwin desk to offer social transport in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region.

2017

Green Deal Shared Mobility

Together with Autodelen.net and the Flemish government, Taxistop launched the Green Deal Shared Mobility: a pledge to achieve 4 smart objectives for bike-sharing, car-sharing and carpooling in Flanders. More than 100 signatories start to launch activities to reach these goals.

2017

Mobihubs

Taxistop and Autodelen.net introduce the concept of mobihubs in Flanders. In 2018, the first mobihub is inaugurated by the City of Deinze.

2016

MobiCalendar

Taxistop supports enterprises by offering its carpool app, and in 2016 adds a multimodal registration tool for employees. Employees can register their journeys with an app or website and can therefore get incentives for their real transport behaviour.

2015

Olympus Mobility

Together with cambio and VAB, Taxistop creates the company Olympus Mobility, who will offer the first MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service)-app in Belgium. Olympus Mobility offers its tool mainly B2B.

2012

Cozycar

Taxistop incorporates Cozycar (Autopia in 2012) as a service in Wallonia to develop car-sharing amongst private individuals.

2011

First ShareFest

First ShareFest in cooperation with Autodelen.net in Ghent.

2008

“Less Mobile Center” in Brussels and Wallonia

Launch of the first Less Mobile Centers in Jette (Brussels) and Houyet (Wallonia).

2002

Start cambio

The first cambio car is located in Namur (Wallonia). One year later in Brussels, and in 2004 also in Ghent (Flanders). To start the activities, Taxistop created a unique partnership with the three regional public transport companies TEC, STIB and De Lijn. Each becomes a shareholder of the regional cambio section.

2000

Cambio

In a partnership with Cambio Mobilitätsservice gmbh (Duitsland), Taxistop creates the NV Optimobil, futur Optimobil Belgium, with VAB and SNCB/NMBS as shareholders. Optimobil will develop car-sharing in Belgium under the commercial name ‘cambio’.

2000

Eventpool

Launch of a carpool tool to events: Eventpool. This platform will be integrated in Carpool in 2018.

1992

Traject, a research office for mobility

In cooperation with vzw Langzaam Verkeer and the Dutch association TC&O, Taxistop creates Traject, a research office for mobility.

1991

Holidaysitting

Holiday-sitting is created. People going on holiday are put in contact with voluntary home-sitters who take care of the house, garden and pets while they are on holiday.

1989

Bed&Breakfast guide Benelux

Creation of the first Bed&Breakfast guide for the Benelux.

1986

Homelink

Start of a partnership with the  network Homelink for the organization of the exchange of houses at an international level.

1985

Launch of Airstop

Launch of Airstop with the objective to fill, last minute, empty seats on airplanes. In 1988 Airstop became independent.

1983

Schoolpool is born

A first version is developed for a test in 150 schools in Ghent. In 2011 the Schoolpool project was updated for the action «Printemps de la mobilité» in Wallonia.

1982

Less Mobile Center

The Less Mobile Center is launched in Flanders. The centre is locally managed, usually by a local municipality.

1980

Start in Brussels and Wallonia

Establishment of “Taxistop Francophone”, today Mpact asbl, to develop activities in Brussels and Wallonia.

1979

Launch of Carpool

Unlike hitch-hiking, driver and passenger get in touch before the trip to arrange the place and time of the agreement. The matching is made through a database on paper. In 1982, Taxistop developed an IT-system to do the matching. In 1998, with the boom of the internet, Carpool was directly accessible on every home PC and today via an app.

1975

Start of secure hitch-hiking

Hitch-hikers who belong to the Taxistop community receive a sign to identify themselves on public roads. They pay their driver 1 Belgian franc per kilometre. After a while, stops are put in place where passengers can wait for a potential driver.

1975

Creation

Creation of the organisation CPA (Center for Positive Application), later Taxistop vzw, today Mpact. This organisation operates in Flanders.