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The following table lists bicycle-sharing systems around the world. Most systems listed allow users to pick up and drop off bicycles at any of the automated stations within the network (denoted as 3 Gen.). Other generations are described at Bicycle-sharing system, section Categorization.
Most bike-sharing systems allow the bicycles to be returned to any station in the system, which facilitates one-way trips because the users do not need to return the bicycles to the origin. [108] Thus, one bike may take 10–15 rides a day with different users and can be ridden up to 10,000 km (6,200 mi) a year (as in Vélo'v in Lyon , France).
Public Bike System Company (PBSC) was initially created by the City of Montreal [7] [8] to supply and operate its public bike share system under the brand Bixi (later becoming Bixi Montréal), which was introduced in 2009. [9] The name 'Bixi' is a portmanteau of 'bicycle' and 'taxi'. Starting in 2010, PBSC began to export the Bixi brand of bike ...
BCycle's 2.0 bike share system in front of the Trek Bicycle headquarters in Waterloo, Wisconsin. Solar powered Boulder B-cycle station with double sided docks. Users of the system can purchase annual memberships or just a day or week pass. The system is intended for short trips rather than using an automobile or bike rentals. [5]
Normally, in other implementations of nextbike's bicycle sharing system, the bicycles are assembled in nextbike's own production hall and delivered worldwide, [6] in Budapest, however, the bicycles are produced / assembled by Csepel, a Hungarian bicycle manufacturer. [7]
The system's expansion has been fairly rapid and will eventually have 200 km (120 mi) of lanes, 200 stations and 3,000 bicycles when completed. [ 7 ] By the end of 2014, the stations became automated (with the exception of a few) and registered users could now access bicycles 24 hours per day with use of a smart card, while the number of ...
Cyclists at a park in Shenzhen.Many ride yellow bikes owned by Ofo, a popular bike-sharing service.. Cycling is a common form of transportation and recreation in China, although use of bicycles has significantly declined since the 1970s and 1980s, when the country was nicknamed the "Kingdom of Bicycles" (自行车王国; Zìxíngchē wángguó).
She is known as one of the inventors of dockless bike sharing system. Dai Wei, the cofounder of “Ofo” is also an inventor of dockless bike sharing system. Dai Wei and Hu Weiwei started to develop this system simultaneously, and his company “Ofo” entered the market even a few months prior to Hu Weiwei’s company “Mobike”.