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Docked bicycles in Gothenburg, Sweden. A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, [1] public bicycle scheme, [2] or public bike share (PBS) scheme, [3] is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
Anqiu Public Bicycle December 2013: Baoji: Baoji Public Bicycle Service September 2013: Beijing: 2012: Changzhou: Changzhou Public Bicycle Chengdu (Jinniu District) [44] – Shanghai Forever Bicycle Co. June 2010: Chengdu (Gaoxin District ) [45] – December 2010: Foshan: August 2010: Fuzhou: Fuzhou Public Bicycle June 2011: Guangzhou [46] [47 ...
The system was launched on 15 July 2007 following Lyon's success of its contactless system Vélo'v in May 2005, the pioneering scheme in June 1998 of LE vélo STAR in Rennes, the first free public network (25 stations) with electronic identification of the bikes but which used magnetic cards [14] [15] or earlier the simple bicycle-sharing ...
With the success of these two high profile smart bicycle sharing systems a new paradigm of government supporting bike sharing as a part of a public transportation network emerged. It is still the bike-share scheme with the second-highest market penetration (1 bike per 121 residents) in the world, after the Velib'.
City Bike, Copenhagen Copenhagen City Bikes or Bycykler København was the bicycle sharing system of Copenhagen, Denmark.Launched in 1995 with 1,000 cycles, the project was the world's first organized large-scale urban bike-sharing scheme, [1] [2] which, unlike its Dutch predecessor, featured what are now considered basic elements such as coin deposit, fixed stands and specially designed bikes ...
A bicycle sharing system, public bicycle system, or bike share scheme, is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals on a very short-term basis. Bike share schemes allow people to borrow a bike from point "A" and return it at point "B". Many of the bicycle sharing systems are on a subscription basis.
The bike sharing schemes can be initiated by cities and franchise partners. The operating costs are financed by contracts with public transport providers & municipalities, rental fees and the sale of advertising space on the bikes themselves. nextbike also provides mobility programmes for colleges or universities and companies.
MOL Bubi (or Bubi for short) is a bicycle sharing network in Budapest, Hungary. Its name is a playful contraction Bu dapest and bi cikli ( bicycle in Hungarian). As of July 2023 the network consists of 211 docking stations and 2,460 bicycles.