tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75364927010846127332024-02-19T20:22:30.120-05:00The Bike-sharing BlogThe Bike-sharing Blog provides information on bike-sharing services around the world and is the sister publication to <a href="http://bikesharingworldmap.com">The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map</a>. The Blog is provided by <a href="http://www.metrobike.net">MetroBike, LLC</a> based in Washington, D.C.Paul DeMaiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15311271083094779653noreply@blogger.comBlogger418125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536492701084612733.post-57943195914057492952021-10-27T04:00:00.005-04:002021-10-27T14:26:14.848-04:00The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map - Mid-2021 Report<p style="text-align: left;">We're delighted to present the first report of <a href="https://bikesharingworldmap.com/">The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map</a> -- a well-used reference tool by researchers, planners, professionals, and the general public -- which has been online since 2007. In this publication, entitled <a href="https://bikesharingworldmap.com/reports/bswm_mid2021report.pdf" target="_blank">The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map - Mid-2021 Report</a>, you'll read about The Meddin Map's history; on-going changes; perspectives for the future; and statistics, numbers, and stories of bike-sharing systems worldwide.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bikesharingworldmap.com/reports/bswm_mid2021report.pdf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="899" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2zU2YtjVndYyrYMcyXbecSp653FipeQIyEKJbnkxdNfJVCBbU1KfTQY-UzGw-QYx1KHkxRgjALURH2MwQalCpz3Ru_WzJG57yCoUzSngc5yG936EgL1n4LlEgie8HO0t9XUq02EAI0DE/s320/Cover+image.png" width="269" /></a></div><br />Bike-sharing has been a transformative tool for cities and populations, expanding access to services and opportunities, increasing mobility, and contributing to a more sustainable urban environment. At the writing of this report, many cities seem to be leaving the COVID-19 pandemic behind, reopening their activities, and implementing changes learned from this severe global event. Bike-sharing schemes survived the pandemic and proved to be resilient and flexible enough to inspire more profound changes in how we move around and experience our cities. By August 2021, there were more than 10 million bikes shared in diverse kinds of schemes. <br /><br />This report comes along with improvements to The Bike-sharing World Map itself. With the passing of Russell Meddin, an 11-year veteran of The Bike-sharing World Map and The Bike-sharing Blog, in April 2020, the Map was relaunched by a team of bike-share enthusiasts from around the world to honor his memory and body of work he contributed to the field, and it was renamed The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map. Russell was a passionate bike-sharing pioneer based in Philadelphia (USA). For many years, he worked with me to provide accurate information about systems worldwide. Russell's dedicated work created a unique database of initiatives that by itself tells the history of this transportation system in our societies. <br /><br />The Report includes an international team of curators and a sponsorship from PBSC Urban Solutions that made this report possible. <br /><br />We hope you enjoy the reading!<br /><br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Paul DeMaio and The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map team of Thiago Benicchio, Steve Chou, Oliver O’Brien, Renata Rabello, and Chumin Yu <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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They were popping up faster than bikeshare trips on a free ride day with municipalities emulating each other because bikeshare is inexpensive to implement compared to other modes of transport, healthy for its customers, good for the environment, and it’s, well, cool!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Bike-sharing World Map today<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPTX6Nh37aAiWQ243Juacfni1n8k_8WKk-DXdJYksD7Z66xALmmRUG1KGyYEq7ZQV1f_Z9k-FfJ6tjx4OPf21afVoZ7VaeFWPuPHU_jNBMfPAco5Wsnqty5hu7uHDEVpkYveFJ6MGFCo/w400-h188/Map+post+-+old+map.png" /></a><br /></div><br /><div>As I quoted Lyon, France’s mayor in the <a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/01/bike-share-philadelphia-forum.html" target="_blank">1/21/08 blog post</a>, “There are two types of mayors -- those who have bike-sharing and those who want bike-sharing.” Fortunately, not long after that post, Russell Meddin joined me in curating the Map and eventually became the Map’s sole curator with a substantial time commitment over his morning coffee. Since then, the Map has grown to over 3,000 entries, painstakingly added one-by-one over the past 13 years as each unique new service develops, implements, and in some cases, permanently closes.</div><div><br /></div>With Russell’s untimely passing earlier this year, a void also was created in how to keep the Map going. Due to its usefulness in spreading knowledge as its 3.5 million views would suggest, we’ve put a team together to co-curate it as no one person can match Russell’s singular herculean effort. The Map’s team includes Oliver O’brien (Europe/Middle East/Africa), Renata Rabello (Central & South America), Chumin Yu (Oceania), Rahil Gupta (Asia), Institute for Transportation Development & Policy (China), Jess Seamon (U.S. & Canada), and Paul DeMaio (Mexico).<br /><br />Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re relaunching <a href="https://world.bikesharemap.com/#/all/2.3/-3.08/34.24/" target="_blank">The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map</a> at <a href="http://bikesharingworldmap.com" target="_blank">bikesharingworldmap.com</a>. To honor Russell, we’ve renamed the new Map after him.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhQhkwR9abqTaxPvambK3JdC5n4tCbOYyZiIyh1k9Sz5-yC7-dbJyLcjvlGgnT32-gunp3qSEmORtRcwi7THBpmdoBwAX36xQUArMAz0W0FzSf9zgQwwTHTtTklYRBgeQHYC_ylbovkQ/w400-h188/Map+post+-+new+map.png" /></a><br /></div><br />The features of the new Map include:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>easier-to-read map to see the depth and breadth of bikeshare systems around the world;</li><li>a search feature to find quickly what you’re looking for;</li><li>a live count of global bikes and systems being planned, in operation, seasonal, temporarily closed, no longer operating, and never opened; and</li><li>images of newly added systems.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Updated entry feature of the Map<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx0By16t9ihV32eJCwL0uWNjft2kfIjTsXHMFaUZjXI9a6imi2S7yqlH3lmoOTKxEhZ7HI2MUp2VLqkZvUeIbwPrOnk2M8XqvsLFosFwGyEFlqw86naZ8S1S1zsnOPWv4nkR-h3yvYyi4/w303-h320/Map+post+-+system+image.png" /></a><br /></div><br />If you’re aware of a new bikeshare system or changes to existing systems, you can reach us at bikesharingworldmap @ gmail.com. The Map is a labor of love for all of our team members as we donate our time for the sake of bikeshare and to continue Russell’s decade of effort.<br /><br />On behalf of our international team, we hope you like The Meddin Bike-sharing World Map.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Paul DeMaio<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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mode of transport to reach the protest, especially in this time of COVID-19 when transit usage is undesirable.<br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCK3ffPNnOiHznkNGTAW2aAeDA_Zp5BzrIO9wGw1xHHaLSNn6gcDFji6NCTdFFHK8s-XztGcDX6qyANsinJTtoHfGupjErY332K73G2Z9bPcMZj1WYUPoi01HHZ4ts1yXbj288kfj_XzA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCK3ffPNnOiHznkNGTAW2aAeDA_Zp5BzrIO9wGw1xHHaLSNn6gcDFji6NCTdFFHK8s-XztGcDX6qyANsinJTtoHfGupjErY332K73G2Z9bPcMZj1WYUPoi01HHZ4ts1yXbj288kfj_XzA/w400-h300/IMG-4639.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>The bicycle allows protestors easy access to the protest without the need to find motor vehicle parking and the nimbleness to walk through the gathered. And yes, the bicycle also provides a quick way to exit should things devolve and become violent, as has happened here this week due to the poor leadership of a heartless, brainless, and soulless dictator who has another 153 days in office.<br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHlnaZ2IlReprhJp963E4MzNtDhCW31t5OwgqyPw3vHWA45g7H4R_cyP_tb6sOwMMhsBrVkl3w07Avb2NYYZqrh1W_0buipTLsfLlP9v5J1iVpPw78gczVJixrZncxfxZoXKsd4lMVXA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHlnaZ2IlReprhJp963E4MzNtDhCW31t5OwgqyPw3vHWA45g7H4R_cyP_tb6sOwMMhsBrVkl3w07Avb2NYYZqrh1W_0buipTLsfLlP9v5J1iVpPw78gczVJixrZncxfxZoXKsd4lMVXA/w400-h300/IMG-4626.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div>It is good seeing the D.C. region's Capital Bikeshare being used by many protestors to proudly express their right of free speech.<br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34VuZBTKTqR_S_91hgMZ1DGv3PPeiau_vEuwKEpPwcKprNQ7x0sINuI9zm81bYcoLDPI-0_FEAey-NHsDvUnLCBEzG4FWZvuZpaLmm5oXKrldtSCRkOPFZE714DiSP6knpvM3ZkRv9K8/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34VuZBTKTqR_S_91hgMZ1DGv3PPeiau_vEuwKEpPwcKprNQ7x0sINuI9zm81bYcoLDPI-0_FEAey-NHsDvUnLCBEzG4FWZvuZpaLmm5oXKrldtSCRkOPFZE714DiSP6knpvM3ZkRv9K8/w400-h300/IMG-4618.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Present times also remind me of past uses of the bicycle for protest, such as the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-technology-craze-of-the-1890s-that-forever-changed-womens-rights/373535/">women's liberation movement</a> in the U.S. and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/26/story-cities-amsterdam-bike-share-scheme">Provo movement</a> in The Netherlands, which gave rise to bikeshare.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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This past week we lost Russell Meddin, who many consider to
be the godfather of bikeshare. Russell was my co-author on this blog as well as
the curator of <a href="http://bikesharingworld.com/">The Bike-sharing World
Map</a>. Russell was well-known in the bikeshare world having been part of this
nascent industry since at least 2008. If you’ve ever attended a bikeshare conference
on most any continent, you’ve likely heard Russell speak. </div>
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I had the pleasure of meeting Russell at the <a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/01/bike-share-philadelphia-forum.html">Bike
Share Philadelphia Public Forum</a> in January 2008. He was one of the event’s
organizers and their goal was to bring bikeshare to Philadelphia, his adopted
hometown. The event was probably the first bikeshare-related in the U.S. From
it, he sowed the seeds of what would become the Indego bikeshare system in
Philadelphia. After the Forum, a couple folks including Russell and I went out
to talk. He was the oldest in the group, but the most young-at-heart.</div>
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Russell was a one-of-a-kind with his quick wit, outspokenness,
quirkiness, and boisterous laugh. If ever needing to locate him at the many North
American Bikeshare Association conferences that we attended, I knew Russell was
nearby when I’d hear his booming laughter coming from afar. Then I’d know in
which direction to walk through the thongs of conference attendees to find him.
Also, Russell didn’t need to be called on at conferences. He’d speak up, voice
booming from the back of the room, to share his opinion on the topic. And he
had plenty of opinions to share! </div>
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I remember Russell would wear his reading glasses with the magnifying factor
sticker still attached. I always thought this was interesting, and one day
asked him why he didn’t simply remove the sticker. “I keep the sticker on to be
memorable,” he said. “Memorable is good.”</div>
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Over the years I got to know his wife and daughter during my
visits to their home, just off of a trail. The entire family, including
their son, loves to travel and has spent a good deal of time in Europe and Asia.
During their travels, Russell would visit the local bikeshare system in every
city to meet staff and talk about the service.</div>
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Anybody who has used The Bike-sharing World Map has him to
thank. As more cities around the world were waking up to bikeshare, updating The
Map become a huge job. He took it over from me in 2009 and spent hours each day,
usually over his morning coffee, reading about what was going on around the
globe and talking to colleagues to keep The Map updated. Talk about a herculean
effort! He did this to index the state of the industry and help spread best
practices.</div>
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Russell was a friend, colleague, and one of the most
passionate, and memorable, people I’ve ever met. I’ll miss our regular calls
and visits where we’d catch up personally and share bikeshare news. </div>
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My condolences go to his family and to those that knew him. He’s
sorely missed.</div>
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Goodbye, Russell.</div>
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COVID-19’s impact on urban areas will be far-reaching as
nearly every mode of transport is being affected, so municipalities need to begin planning how they will prepare for
these changes to guide society once we remove the virus's choke hold. After the pandemic, traffic congestion caused
by single occupant vehicles could drastically increase due to a wider
preference for greater personal space. This could result in urban areas
becoming even more difficult to get around and lower air quality than pre-COVID-19
years.</div>
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Mass transit is taking a big hit as reported by <a href="https://transit.app/coronavirus"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Transit</span></a>
as ridership declines with many needing to telework or loss of employment. This
decline likely will continue after the pandemic as the public grapples with its
post-traumatic stress of physical distancing from even friends and neighbors
and not wanting to be in the close confines of a train or bus with strangers.
Many former mass transit riders will turn to single occupant motor vehicles
such that cities could see a huge increase in motor vehicle traffic and
congestion. The use of carpooling, slugging, ride-hailing, and taxis also could
decrease from pre-COVID-19 times also as people remain skittish about sharing
space with even a few others.</div>
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Private bikes, bikeshare, and scootershare have the
potential to replace trips from all modes without negatively impacting urban
areas with greater traffic congestion. Bikes and e-scooters have physical
distancing as a built-in feature that wasn’t important until the present era. </div>
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Urban areas will see a boom in both modes once COVID-19’s
infection curve has flattened and life begins to return to normal, albeit a new
normal. As cycling and scootering increase, those new to these modes will have
greater need for safer streets, protected bike lanes -- space that is
physically separated for people who bike and scoot from people who drive -- is
greatly needed. </div>
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City and county leaders must counteract the potential for
heavier motor vehicle traffic congestion than pre-COVID-19 times by providing
protected bike infrastructure to those that do or will cycle and scoot to get
around. This infrastructure need not be expensive or take years of planning. As
reported in <a href="https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/bogota-expands-bike-lanes-overnight-to-curb-coronavirus-spread-5127"><span style="color: #0563c1;">SmartCitiesWorld</span></a>, Bogotá, Colombia recently
opened 47 miles of temporary bike lanes during the pandemic. Bogotá’s mayor,
Claudia López, said the bicycle “represents one of the most hygienic
alternatives for the prevention of the virus." </div>
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Use of rubber curbing, flexible posts, street markings,
and/or new signage can be enough to create protected bike infrastructure on existing streets.
Municipal leaders need to think big and provide this critical infrastructure on
arterial streets where it's most likely to be useful and used. This
infrastructure would be well-used during the pandemic as the public needs safe
and healthy modes in which to travel and exercise in a way that is socially
responsible and permissible by many localities’ stay-at-home orders.</div>
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The pandemic has the potential to reshape how we get around,
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should seize this opportunity to plan for how society will get around after the
pandemic by creating more public infrastructure that better encourages biking and
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Recently, I attended an excellent presentation about
battery management at the <a href="https://nabsa.net/2019conference/" target="_blank">North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) conference</a>.
With more electric bikeshare and scootershare vehicles hitting the streets
around the world, this topic is of increasing importance. As an e-bike owner, I
personally have seen how it has changed how I get around in the hilly
Washington, D.C. region as I bike a lot more now than before I bought the
e-bike. While these e-bikeshare and e-scootershare vehicles can be great and
increase getting around town without needing drive or be driven; unless their rechargeable
lithium-ion batteries are managed well during their useful life and recycled
properly into steel, stainless steel, and new batteries; e-bikeshare and
e-scootershare can cause more harm than good to our customers, staff, and the
environment. As <a href="http://www.metrobike.net/" target="_blank">MetroBike</a>
manages e-bikeshare and e-scootershare systems for local governments, I took
note.</div>
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The reason lithium-ion batteries are so popular and
omnipresent is because they can hold a lot of energy in a small package, called
“energy density”. According to <a href="https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/archive/is_lithium_ion_the_ideal_battery" target="_blank">Battery University</a>
“The energy density of lithium-ion is typically twice that of the standard
nickel-cadmium. … Most of today's mobile phones run on a single [lithium-ion] cell.
A nickel-based pack would require three 1.2-volt cells.”</div>
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However, a major problem with lithium-ion batteries are
that they, “have a tendency to overheat, and can be damaged at high voltages.
In some cases this can lead to thermal runaway and combustion,” says the
<a href="https://www.cei.washington.edu/education/science-of-solar/battery-technology/" target="_blank">University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute</a>.
Not being familiar with the term “thermal runaway”, I had to look it up. It’s
defined by <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/thermal-runaway" target="_blank"><i>Lithium-Ion Battery Chemistries</i></a>
as, “when a cell has reached the temperature at which the temperature will
continue to increase on its own and it becomes self-sustaining as it creates
oxygen which feeds the fire (literally).” </div>
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Electronic bikeshare and scootershare vehicles already
have been reported to have had multiple fires on the street and in warehouses in
the U.S., such as the reported instances of e-bikeshare in <a href="https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a28778383/electric-bike-explosion/" target="_blank">Bicycling Magazine</a>
and e-scootershare in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/30/an-electric-scooter-caught-fire-downtown-dc/" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a>.
I haven’t read any reports yet of fires happening while someone is on a vehicle
and hope it never happens.</div>
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The NABSA presentation that I mentioned above was given by
Todd Ellis of <a href="https://www.call2recycle.org/" target="_blank">Call2Recycle</a>.
He suggested e-bikeshare and e-scootershare operators and municipal system
owners both have roles in battery management. Mr. Ellis stated:</div>
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Operators should:</div>
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-accept that this is an issue;</div>
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-size up the issue;</div>
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-select a storage area in their warehouse; </div>
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-develop standard operator procedures for battery
management, including handling used, damaged, and defective batteries;</div>
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-train employees on handling; and</div>
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-plan for the worst.</div>
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How’s that for sobering? </div>
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In addition, municipalities should:</div>
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-have operators provide their battery management plan as
a micro-mobility application requirement, </div>
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-require the operator provide their battery recycling
partner contract, and</div>
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-include the cost of recycling batteries in abandoned
vehicle fines.</div>
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This just scratches the surface.</div>
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E-bikeshare and e-scootershare vehicles are here to stay.
Bikeshare has proven for over a decade that it’s successful at getting people
around town in a healthy, fun, and environmentally friendly way. E-bikeshare
bikes are generating roughly three times more trips than standard pedal
bikeshare bikes because the electric version makes it easier to get around
without exerting as much effort. E-scootershare didn’t have a non-electric
shared version, so there’s no direct comparison. With the immense uptake of
e-scootershare around the world, one can see that people like to get around
without effort, and the easier, the better. E-scootershare requires even less
exertion than e-bikeshare as pedaling is not involved. </div>
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E-bikeshare and e-scootershare will continue to evolve. With
the popularity of these vehicles, likely there will be many more generations of
electric vehicles and they’ll all need batteries. So the need for safe and
environmentally friendly battery management will continue to grow.</div>
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Bikeshare is transit and as such needs the same attention
that rail and bus systems do to keep functioning properly as they age. As most
bikeshare systems around the world have launched this decade, many are needing
to replace equipment that is becoming outdated and performing less than
optimally after years of use and exposure to the elements. It’s not as exciting
to repair or replace a bikeshare station as it is to expand a network with a new
station, but in many ways it’s more important in order to maintain ridership
and happy customers.</div>
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It’s necessary to keep a bikeshare system in a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">state of good repair</i>” and stay ahead of
the curve so that the backlog of repairs doesn’t threaten your system’s
reliability in the future. A bikeshare system is in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">state of good repair</i> when system components are properly maintained
or replaced in accordance with industry standards. Customers don’t appreciate
broken docks that won’t accept the return of a bike or seats cracked so badly
that they’re not comfortable and soak up water when it rains only to get
customers wet on their next trip. Common equipment issues for stationary assets
are rust on the plates and docks; dysfunctional and/or unreadable kiosk
displays; and docks with locking mechanisms that have extended well past their
useful life and won’t accept a bike on a customer’s first attempt at the bike’s
return. If the quality of your bikeshare system decreases, customers will bail
from bikeshare to find a better functioning transport option to meet their
mobility needs. Therefore, keeping a bikeshare system well-maintained is key.</div>
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As stations age, it’s likely not necessary to replace the
entire station, but rather replace individual components that aren’t
functioning optimally. To determine what needs repair or replacement requires
knowing the condition of the equipment. To do this there are asset management
software tools, such as <a href="https://survey123.arcgis.com/">Survey123</a>,
where one can program the needed fields in the app and then use a smartphone or
tablet while on-site at each station to enter the data. Fields should span
across each type of asset, including plates, map frame, kiosks, and docks. It will
take a decent amount of time, but regularly inspecting your system assets helps
you spot and address smaller issues before they grow to bigger and more
expensive and time-consuming problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo credit: Aaron
Goldbeck and Iryna Bondarenko, District Department of Transportation</span></td></tr>
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The appearance and functionality of stations should be
considered. Appearance refers to rust, correct decals and station name, presence
of vandalism and debris, presence of decals and map frame ad/public service announcement,
etc. For on-street stations, let’s not forget delineators and markings. Functionality
refers to the actual operation of the station, such as making sure the kiosk
display is responding to touch and is legible, each dock accepts and releases a
bike, key pads are working, station plates haven’t separated too much thereby
creating a tripping hazard, etc. Each bikeshare vendor’s equipment has its own
set of needs regarding what should be evaluated during station visits.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rust</td></tr>
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Knowing the actual condition of equipment will allow
bikeshare operators and owners to replace components based on need rather than
age. While age is an important consideration, an older infrequently used dock
will last longer than a newer frequently used dock, all things being equal.
With this equipment condition data, one’s limited budget can be spent more
wisely.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out of service dock</td></tr>
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We at <a href="http://www.metrobike.net/">MetroBike</a> assist
clients with asset management to ensure longevity of their bikeshare
investment. Working with our clients, we develop a complete list of assets needing
condition evaluation, analyze assets on-site, report which assets need repair
or replacement, and help create a prioritization of replacement needs based on the
budget. Should your bikeshare organization need assistance with asset
management, you can reach us at hello @ metrobike.net.</div>
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It’s time to reconsider the terms that are presently being
used in much of the English-speaking world for the “dockless bikeshare” and “dockless
scooter” systems that have popped up around the globe over the past couple of
years. As you may have guessed, we here at The Bike-sharing Blog – the specialists
in public-use bicycling – have a couple thoughts about this as it’s in our
wheelhouse. </div>
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Modern 3rd generation (high-tech) bikeshare systems that
don’t need a station at which to park bikes have been around since the dawn of
the millennia. However, about two to three years ago with the dawn of these
systems in China, a new term was coined which explained not what these systems
are, but rather what they are not – they don’t need stations and their pesky
docks, so are dockless. The term “dockless bikeshare” somehow caught on.</div>
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Then more recently electric stand-up scooters hit the scene
and the term “dockless scooters” was creatively coined (pardon the sarcasm) due
to its similarity to dockless bikeshare. Did anyone stop to think that this
term, dockless scooters, doesn’t make any sense because there were never docks
to begin with. </div>
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Dockless bikeshare and dockless scooters are transitional
terms available to us now as we transition to better, more descriptive and
accurate terms. The term “horseless carriage” was a transitional term used in
the early years of the automobile as a descriptor because at the time carriages
generally were pulled by horses, but this new machine, which later was called
the automobile, had its own steam energy source. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLVD80cchyyicfTOGzbnBTgIR2g5laEA_iLXZtAXe7Jk5b1vPilp6HDFm6K2C0By1Q-25tXPwpdvCxlpeHTbzke0EYfGYs3heO2awA9ejG-whE52lsLKWKL3a5c2apXpwb-TrElnDFI0/s1600/Horseless+carriage.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLVD80cchyyicfTOGzbnBTgIR2g5laEA_iLXZtAXe7Jk5b1vPilp6HDFm6K2C0By1Q-25tXPwpdvCxlpeHTbzke0EYfGYs3heO2awA9ejG-whE52lsLKWKL3a5c2apXpwb-TrElnDFI0/s320/Horseless+carriage.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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The good news is that existing terms will satisfy the need
for more accurate descriptions for these technologies. The terms “fixed
bikeshare” and “flexible bikeshare” have been around since the mid-2000s and accurately describe station-based and non-station-based systems, respectively. Fixed bikeshare has stations at fixed
points. Flexible bikeshare provides flexibility to customers about where to
park. For the few hybrid systems out there that both allow parking at and away
from stations, it can be “hybrid bikeshare” or how about “flexed bikeshare”
combining both the flex- of flexible and the -xed of fixed. The term
“scootershare” is also already in use, but needs the descriptor “stand-up
scootershare” so as to not be confused with sit-down scooters which are also
being shared.</div>
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Why reinvent the wheel when we already have good terms to
ride on?</div>
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# # #</div>
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Paul DeMaio is Principal with <a href="http://metrobike.net/" target="_blank">MetroBike, LLC</a> –
the U.S.’s oldest fixed and flexible bikeshare consultancy.</div>
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Third generation “fixed” or “station-based” bikeshare and
“flexible” or “dockless” bikeshare both started around the same time around the
dawn of the new millennium. Clear Channel’s <a href="https://www.clearchannelinternational.com/our-portfolio/smartbike">SmartBike</a>
and Deutsche Bahn’s <a href="https://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/en">Call a
Bike</a> are two of the oldest station-based and dockless systems,
respectively. Both fixed and flexible bikeshare have their own unique set of
benefits and detriments however it’s time to hybridize them to a greater extent
than has happened at the present in order to achieve the benefits of both while
lessening the detriments of each.</div>
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The benefits of fixed bikeshare are that it: 1) provides
order in an urban environment as the station and its bikes use a defined space,
2) provides the customer a set location from which to rent a bike. In an urban
environment where every square meter of space is spoken for, a fixed system ensures
formality of the bikes being parked as was intended in an orderly way that
doesn’t negatively impact other street users. Additionally, as we are creatures
of habit, starting off one’s morning commute in the same manner and location each
day provides a level of comfort for a customer, assuming that bikes are
available.</div>
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However, issues with fixed bikeshare are that it’s expensive
for the system owner to purchase a station as they can easily cost $50,000 USD.
Additionally, finding sufficient space for a 50’ x 6’ station, for example, and
an adjacent site from which to rebalance it can be time-consuming to obtain
necessary approvals and difficult to find a big enough area in an urban
environment.</div>
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The benefits of flexible bikeshare are: 1) the bikes
don’t require the same level of investment as does station infrastructure, and 2)
servicing less dense areas -- where usage is lower and distances are greater –
is comparatively quite economical.</div>
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However, a major issue with flexible bikeshare is that
the bikes sometimes aren’t parked well by the public in denser neighborhoods,
leading to obstacles on sidewalks and streets as well as using up valuable public
space.</div>
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Therefore, hybrid fixed/flexible systems with stations in
denser neighborhoods but not in less dense areas should be made commonplace by
the cities and counties who own bikeshare systems and the bike and station
vendors they work with. This would allow for a more economical transit service
to implement and operate along with more orderly placement of bikes – the
latter of which has been a great concern to the public. </div>
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An additional benefit is that overflow parking can easily
be created by customers at fixed systems by the flexible systems by locking the
flexible bikes either to adjacent inverted U bike racks as nextbike does in
Budapest, or to the docked bikes themselves as Smoove does in Paris. This
decreases the need for rebalancing the full stations as additional limited
capacity can be created. </div>
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There are a few vendors as I’ve mentioned above that have
seen the light and necessity of hybridizing, including <a href="https://molbubi.bkk.hu/">nextbike</a> (below), <a href="https://stadtrad.hamburg.de/kundenbuchung/process.php?proc=entleihe&&key=a5ca95c50d5f8f46983c19c5f20f14d5...00001&changeto=510">Call
a Bike</a>, and <a href="https://jumpbikes.com/">Jump</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=64&v=jaHzRHFmyHs">Smoove</a>
is to have this in Paris in the future. It would be wise for more vendors to
follow this path for the benefit of bikeshare customers around the world who
rely on bikeshare to move around their region. </div>
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The dawn of pedelecs has arrived into bikeshare and
flexible pedelecs are going to need stations that are hard-wired to an electrical
source to recharge. Manual swapping of batteries for a large fleet would be a grand
task and is merely a short-term solution.</div>
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With hybridization of fixed and flexible technologies,
the best of both worlds unite. There will be roadblocks, such as competition
between vendors and lack of cooperation between municipalities and operators
but hybridization will happen because it’s too good of an idea to not.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On November 9, 2007 the first green bicycle icon appeared on <a href="http://www.bikesharingmap.com/">www.bikesharingmap.com</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ten years later there are 2075 entries showing programs in operation, programs being constructed or planned and programs that have been terminated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The map has been viewed by almost 6,000,000 times over these years. It is updated with the latest news on programs daily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Watch this animation of the chronology of self-service public use bicycles:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thank for all the views!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On July 15, 2007, then Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë opened 10,600 bikes in 750 self-service rental stations to Parisians and the world. For only €1 ($1.14 US) a day, one could take unlimited rides of 30 minutes each or less. It seemed to be a transportation revolution.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.velib.paris.fr/" target="_blank">Vélib'</a> success made the world embrace self-service public bicycles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It might not have been the first program, <br />but its notoriety changed the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 2007 there were only around 20 self-service public use bicycle programs throughout the world. Now ten years later, there are over 1,350. Many of them are direct copies of the JCDecaux design and function seen in Vélib'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What at first might have seemed a curiosity, automated self-service bicycle rental has turned into a social phenomenon. According to <a href="http://en.cyclocity.com/" target="_blank">JCDecaux</a>, the current operator of Vélib', every minute 75 Vélib' bikes are rented in Paris. On average each bike is used about 6 times a day. In the last 10 years over 300,000,000 trips were pedaled on Vélib'. Now, there are 300,000 annual subscribers to the system in the City of Lights.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January 2018 will bring, Vélib’ 2.0, with a new
design, a new service, and a new operator: the <a href="http://www.smoove-bike.com/" target="_blank">Smoovengo</a> consortium will replace JCDecaux. It will
introduce what Smoovengo bills as the "4th generation" in self-service bicycles. This
will include 30% of the fleet as electric assisted pedelecs. The maximum
speed for the electric assist pedelecs will be set at 25 km/h (15.5 mph). Weighing 20.6 kg (45 lbs.) the regular pedal new Vélib’ will be "lighter and
stronger" than the old one at 22.7 kg (50 lbs.).</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></div>
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from stations and while parking away from stations. To abate the annoyance
of Parisians, who have found stations full when returning a bike, the system of
will allow "depositing bikes at a station even when all the places are
already occupied". Each bike will have "embedded
electronics" with a handlebar equipped with an on-board communication
system (the Smoove Box) that is self-powered by a dynamo that will allow connecting a
smartphone for way-finding and information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please take a look at the<a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-bike-sharing-world-year-end-data.html" target="_blank"> Dock-it 2015</a> for comparison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A quick prevue: 2016 ended with a world-wide fleet of approximately <i>2,000,000</i> public use bicycles in automated and/or information technology controlled systems in approximately <i>1,175</i> cities, municipalities or district jurisdictions in<i> 63</i> countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first public use bicycle program on the African Continent will begin on November 7, 2016. <a href="http://medinabike.ma/" target="_blank">Medina Bike</a> will launch with 300 bikes in 12 stations for the opening of the Congress of Parties, COP22, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, in Morocco. According to <a href="http://www.infomediaire.net/news/maroc/transport-durable-le-velib-arrive-marrakech" target="_blank">InfoMédiare</a> the program will have equipment from the French company <a href="http://www.smoove-bike.com/" target="_blank">Smoove</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week <a href="http://www.mobike.com/" target="_blank">Mobike</a>, the free floating Chinese public use bike program, has expanded into Shenzhen, China. Starting in April 2016 in Shanghai, the are now Mobikes in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen according to <a href="http://www.leiphone.com/news/201610/t10YNL9lWNEyK2QA.html" target="_blank">LeiPhone.com</a>. Also this week, Mobike introduced a new<a href="http://www.leiphone.com/news/201610/LlkjS9qZNzFkviAi.html" target="_blank"> Mobike Light</a> bicycle. According to the <a href="http://www.shanghaidaily.com/metro/society/Hire-bike-that-is-tougher-lighter-and-half-the-cost/shdaily.shtml" target="_blank">Shanghai Daily</a>, this bike will first be deployed in the Baoshan District, just north of Shanghai. It will cost around 7¢US per 30 minutes to use this new bike. One half the price of using the original Mobike! Between these two bicycles, Mobike hopes to have 100,000 bicycles on the streets of greater Shanghai by the end of the year. That would overtake Hangzhou for the title of the city with the world's largest public use bicycle program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This week <a href="http://www.nextbike.de/en/" target="_blank">Nextbike</a> started installing a pilot program running for the month of November in Lichtenberg, Germany. This is a test to make ready for its deployment of 5,000 bikes in 700 stations next year in the city of Berlin. The program is to replace the 1,500 bike <a href="https://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/kundenbuchung/process.php?proc=bikesuche&f=500&" target="_blank">Call-a-Bike</a> system currently in Berlin. According to <a href="https://www.berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2016/pressemitteilung.524747.php" target="_blank">Berlin.de</a> and <a href="http://www.berliner-kurier.de/berlin/kiez---stadt/fahrradverleiher-bei-call-a-bike-ist-die-luft-raus--24921496" target="_blank">Berliner Kurier</a>, the City Senate has told Call-a-Bike to remove its bikes and stations, but Deutche Bahn, Call-a Bike's parent company, says it will replace its system with a new one in Berlin. Stay tuned for reports on this <i>teutonic shift</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bcycle.com/" target="_blank">B-cycle </a>introduced two new bicycles to add to their offering for the public use bicycle market. The<i> Dash</i> has an 'on the bike user interface' that could be used in a 'free floater' dockless set up. It will be available soon and is compatible with current B-cycle programs. Also debuted, in prototype form, is the<i> Dash+</i>, a pedelec, which will be available in 2018. Both bikes can be accessed by mobile phone applications and a have a handle bar electronic screen to display navigation and information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> 2016 Annual Conference is November 9-11 </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Austin, Texas USA</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Amsterdam, The Netherlands:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This fall Amsterdam will go <i>Back to the Future </i>with the deployment of<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.urbee.nl/" target="_blank">U</a></span><a href="http://www.urbee.nl/" target="_blank">rbee</a>. The birthplace of bike-share will again see public <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">use bicycles<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with </span></span></span>a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">high-tech reincarnation of the concept in this world bike capital, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nearly</span> 50 years later. </span>These <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">smart</span> lock bikes will be placed around Amsterdam </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to be shared </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the similar fashion that the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">radical </span>Provo movement's "<a href="http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/counterculture/assaultonculture/provo/provo.html" target="_blank">White Bikes</a>" were from the summer of 1965. This time with a mobile telephone based<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>app, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and</span> GPS location, these bikes <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">promise to</span> be easy to find<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and use.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://urbee.nl/" target="_blank">Urbee</a> will begin with a soft launch <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with</span> 300 electric<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>assist bicycles, or pedelces, with full deployment of 1,150 in the spring of 2017, according to <i><a href="http://www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/amsterdam-krijgt-elektrische-deelfiets-dankzij-startup-urbee/" target="_blank">Duurzammnieuws</a>.</i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> For those in the Bike-sharing World this is extremely gratifying news <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> n</span></span>ow those men and wom<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span>n who pioneered public use bicycles with White Bikes can ride around Amsterdam with their white hair!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">North America</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The past few months ha<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ve</span> seen an explosion of new public use bicycle programs in the USA and Canada. Here is a list from <a href="http://www.bikesharingmap.com/" target="_blank">www.bikesharingmap.com</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alpharettta, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; Aurora, Illinois; Basaslt,
Colorado; Beverly Hills, California; Brownville, Harlin & Edinburg, Texas; College
Park, Maryland; Clarksville, Tennessee; Columbus, Indiana; Corpus Christi,
Texas; Corvallis, Oregon; Fairbanks, Alaska; Fort Collins, Colorado; Fort
Wayne, Indiana; Gainesville, Florida; Huntington, Indiana; Kailua-Kona, Hawaii;
Long Beach, California; Los Angeles County, California; Mesa, Arizona; Portland,
Oregon; Princeton, New Jersey; Rome, New York; Rochester, Minnesota; San Mateo,
California; Vancouver, British Columbia; West Hollywood, California; Westfield,
Indiana; Westminster, Colorado; and Willets, Colorado. Whew. No<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w my fingers hurt from typing all that.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This past June, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hosted the <a href="https://www.ereg.me/ehome/bikeshare/386849/" target="_blank">Better Bike Share Partnership Conference.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The goal was to find ways to make public use bicycle programs more accessible. Speakers from around the USA recounted the progress made and examples to follow in achieving this goal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take note: the North America Bikeshare Association <a href="http://nabsa.net/2016-annual-conference/" target="_blank">annual conference</a> and meeting starts November 9, 2016. If it's not on your calendar, it should be!</span><br />
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<![endif]-->A goal of publicly owned bike-share systems is to provide
safe, cheap, and widespread transit for its citizens and visitors. While annual
memberships offer this for frequent customers, the 24-hour membership that many
systems have does this poorly for infrequent and would-be customers. To improve
upon this, the Washington, D.C. region’s Capital Bikeshare has embarked upon a
new pilot fare – the $2 <a href="https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/news/2016/06/01/new-single-trip-fare-service-enhancements-for-safetrack" target="_blank">“Single Trip”</a>.
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Unlike the common duration-based bike-share fare types, lasting
anywhere between 24 hours and 1 year, the trip-based fare type is more
transit-oriented as it’s focused on the lowest common denominator – the trip itself
– rather than a time period. The Single Trip fare’s $2 cost gives a customer up to 30 minutes of ride time with greater
usage fees for longer trips. Capital Bikeshare’s Single Trip fare is one of the
least expensive fare options of the <a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-would-you-pay-per-minute-and.html" target="_blank">“buffet model”</a> of pricing in North
America that was discussed here on The Bike-sharing Blog on September 14, 2014.
The D.C. region joins Pittsburgh’s Healthy Ride with their similarly priced <a href="https://healthyridepgh.com/pricing/" target="_blank">“Pay As You Go”</a> fare.</div>
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Offering a trip-based fare in an established duration-based
fare structure creates great risk. The risk is that revenues would drastically
drop as customers who were formerly paying for a higher priced 24-hour
membership, instead decide to purchase a trip-based pass at a quarter of the
price. Less revenue would hurt a system’s cost recovery and make the
system more reliant on other revenue sources, such as public subsidy or more
advertising, if these options were available. To many public and non-profit
systems, they are not.</div>
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The other possible outcome is that the trip-based fare
would induce more trips by those for whom a 24-hour membership cost were too
high, but who would pay the cheaper $2 fare which is comparable to the price of
other modes of transit.</div>
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It’s unknown at this point which way the wheels will turn
on trip-based versus duration-based revenues, however things are looking good. Over
the past year new and established systems in North America have been inching
towards lower-cost trip-based fares, such as with Montreal’s <a href="http://montreal.bixi.com/en/pricing" target="_blank">“One Way”</a> pass for $2.95 CAD ($2.28 USD) and Philadelphia’s <a href="https://www.rideindego.com/passes/" target="_blank">“Walk-up”</a>
and Minneapolis/St. Paul’s <a href="https://www.niceridemn.org/pricing/" target="_blank">“Single Rides”</a>
passes – both for $4. There is also the “Pay As You Go“ fares of <a href="http://socialbicycles.com/" target="_blank">Social Bicycles</a> that are charged by the minute -- another good solution.</div>
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Whatever name the pass goes by, the trip-based fare will
hopefully increase bike-share trips, generate greater revenue, lower the financial
barrier for people who need just one or two trips rather than 24 hours of trips,
and make riding a bike a legitimate 2-wheeled transit option in a country where
bike-riding for transport is not commonplace. Further, it could make bike-share
resemble the more common fare structure of other modes of transit by removing
the membership aspect and pricing it similarly to bus, streetcar, and rail. </div>
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At an historic time in the Washington, D.C. region where
the country’s 2<sup>nd</sup> most highly used subway system has begun a nearly
year-long maintenance surge of <a href="https://wmata.com/rail/safetrack.cfm?" target="_blank">single-tracking and station closures for weeks at a time</a>
starting today, Capital Bikeshare’s Single Trip fare will hopefully
provide an economical and convenient transport option for the thousands of
commuters who are looking for another mode in which they can rely upon for the
next year and beyond. If Capital Bikeshare and other innovative bike-share
systems are successful with the trip-based fare, it could be a new model for bike-share systems to emulate.<br />
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<a href="http://metrobike.net/" target="_blank">MetroBike, LLC</a> is affiliated with Capital Bikeshare. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">North America</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">USA:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over 71,000,000 trips on public bikes in the U.S.A. since 2008</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the last few months there have been a few good and interesting reports about the state of Public Use Bicycling in the United States. These reports have been widely circulated by various media. We at <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span>he Bike-sharing Blog welcome all research and reports that further the public use bicycle industry. We assiduously</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> read them all. The most positive report was </span><a href="http://transweb.sjsu.edu/PDFs/research/1204-bikesharing-and-bicycle-safety.pdf" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Bikesharing and Bicycle Safety</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> written by Elliot Martin, Adam Cohen, Jan Botha, an<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">d</span> Susan Shaheen <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for</span> the Minetta Transportation Institute. Their research showed that there had been no fatalities involving public use bicycles as of January 2016 and that public bikes are statically safer than trips on private bikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since I do a lot of research for this blog, I was curious to know just how many public use bicycle trips there have been in USA<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span> The first public program of substantial size<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>was the SmartBike D.C. system in Washington, D.C. which started with 120 bikes <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and</span> 10 stations in August 2008. Using that as the starting point. I polled individual programs, accessed open data and queried vendors with th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> question, <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"S</span>ince the launch of your program or system, how many trips have been taken <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">through</span> December 31, 2015.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span> With a 98% response rate, the total is 71,382,780. That is a lot of bicycle trips with no fatalities and an extremely good safety record.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over 32,000 bikes in the public use bicycle fleet are put in over 3,400 stations throughout 105 Municipalities in the U.S.A.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In early April, the United States Department of Transportation issued a report on the connectivity of <a href="http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/bts_technical_report/april_2016" target="_blank">Bike-share Stations in the United States</a>. Unfortunately, when first issued, 40 municipalities and 1,000 stations were missing from the totals. By the diligence of this blog and city program operators, it has now been corrected. It is great that the U.S. Department of Transportation understands the importance of public use bicycle programs and how they fit in the greater transportation needs of the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The count of bicycles, stations, and cities comes from <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">T</span>he Bike-sharing World Map.<span style="background-color: white;"> These numbers are for programs that are </span><span style="background-color: white;">only </span><span style="background-color: white;">open to the general public and that are automated and station<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>based. In the case of a <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">u</span>niversity<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>owned program, it is only counted if there are stations off<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-</span>campus and completely available to the general public. Bike libraries and manned programs and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">c</span>orporate and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">u</span>niversity campuses that are not open to the general public are not </span><span style="background-color: white;">surveyed</span><span style="background-color: white;"> for this count. </span></span><br />
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Bike-share has successfully made its way into the transport
landscape around much of the world. Now that nearly 1,000 systems have been
established globally, the proof of concept was the easy part and the hard part is just beginning – broadening the service
to people who don’t ride a bike and who are a majority of the population.</div>
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Bike-share competes against other modes of transport that can
be more convenient and easy, like the private automobile, taxis, and
ride-hailing services. A cold bike seat is a long way from the heated seat of
some cars, so bike-share also must become more convenient and easy in order to
attract new and keep existing customers. Innovation is key and it’s impressive
to see what some visionary bike-share services, operators, and vendors are doing towards this goal.</div>
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JCDecaux, operator of Paris’s Vélib’, is showing two great examples of innovation. They’re
experimenting with both a pedelec (pedal electric) system, called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">e-vls</i>, and bikes with automatic gear change. The
pedelec bikes likely will require that one lease a specially designed battery
to insert into the bike (as shown below). According to <a href="http://www.jcdecaux.com/en/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2015/JCDecaux-launches-self-service-electric-bikes" target="_blank">JCDecaux</a> the batteries can cover up to 10 km (6 mi)
at a maximum speed of 25 km/h (16 mph). On top of that, e-vls thankfully won't increase the bike weight for those that aren't using the pedelec feature.</div>
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Pedelec bike-share bikes aren’t the evolution of
bike-sharing, but rather a complementary service for those wanting a little
extra assistance to get to their workplace, home, event, etc. without sweating
or tiring themselves. It will surely bring new demographics of people into
bike-share that wouldn’t have considered using it previously as well as make
the bikes more useful to existing customers. A complementary pedelec bike-share
feature will help shorten the distance between origin and destination that
for some would otherwise be too far, too hilly, or too strenuous to do it
without electric assistance. Pedelecs are one more reason now to take bike-share
and one less reason to not take a car.<br />
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According to my Bike-sharing Blog and Bike-sharing World Map
co-author, Russell Meddin, "There are approximately 70 cities that have
partial or full pedelec systems totaling about 9,400 pedelecs in public use
service world-wide. Most notably there is Jincheng, China with 3,000 pedelecs;
Madrid with 2,000; Milan with 1,000; Barcelona with 400; Sendai, Japan with
300; and Birmingham, USA with 100." The number of municipalities and
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rider needing to know when to change gears to get the most efficient pedaling.
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another innovation that is sorely needed. As discussed on <a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-would-you-pay-per-minute-and.html" target="_blank">The Bike-sharing Blog</a> previously, bike-share needs fares that better match those of other transit
systems. Let people pay for making one trip, rather than asking them to pay for
a whole day of unlimited use. Very few systems charge a per minute or per trip fee, but thankfully they
exist, like Montreal Bixi’s <a href="https://montreal.bixi.com/" target="_blank">One Way Access</a> and some <a href="http://socialbicycles.com/#" target="_blank">Social Bicycles'</a> systems. It's important that single trips are less expensive than the cost of riding a bus.</div>
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Integration with other transit modes is sorely needed to
make bike-share easy to switch to or from rail and bus. Let me use my regional
transit smartcard on bike-share, like Bordeaux innovated with <a href="https://www.vcub.fr/les-acces-vcub" target="_blank">Vcub</a>. As many
people now don’t leave home without their smartphone, let folks use their phone
to check-out a bike instead of needing to also bring a fob or smartcard. London allows customers to pay by phone through their smartphone app and issues a PIN for the customer to release a bike. <a href="https://www.bcycle.com/news/2015/10/13/bcycle-and-ridescout-demonstrate-first-use-of-smart-phone-and-apple-watch-to-locate-unlock-and-pay-for-bike-share-bike" target="_blank">BCycle and RideScout</a> are innovating to allow one to use a smartphone or Apple watch to both pay <i>and</i> unlock a bike.</div>
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The evolution of bike-share is turning it from bike rental into a full-blown regional transit system that is one of
the big transport players. The bike-share industry needs to continue innovating
to bring more customers, especially people who don’t bike, and would certainly
not consider themselves a cyclist, into the fold and create more people simply who
feel comfortable and safe on a bike. Two-wheel transit won’t reach its
potential if it’s more bike than transit. It must be transit first and foremost that is on two wheels.<br />
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Now let’s push bike-share where it needs to go over the
next decade with more amenities and by making it easier and more fun to use. The
opportunity is enormous for bike-share to have an even greater impact on
cities, on peoples’ health, and on the environment than it presently does.</div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.gov.tfl.cyclehire&hl=en">Santander Cycles</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This animation shows the growth of the public use programs in the world since 1993 through 2015 and beyond. As this year closes, there have been around 120 new cities so far that have started bike-share systems. China leads the way with around 60 new cities, while the USA saw around 20 new cities join this movement.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liangzhuzhen, Hangzhou, China new Smart GPS Bicycle</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Asia:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">China</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Hangzhou</b>,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After years of utilizing fairly low grade bicycles in public services, many Chinese cities are finally upgrading them. The Hangzhou GST Development Company, the research and development arm of the Hangzhou Public Bicycle Program, has created a GPS enabled "smart bike" as part of the IBSplus system to be first deployed in Laingzhu, a town near Hangzhou.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The same company is also creating a single access and payment card called "ibicycle", which can be used to access all of the 147 services throughout China that utilize their equipment, according to the <a href="http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA4NjEwMTUyMA==&mid=401125826&idx=1&sn=bd9e9c38a8727355a855046195930cb2&scene=0#wechat_redirect" target="_blank">Kim Tong News Agency</a>. Additionally, The Hangzhou GST Development Company is developing a mobile phone application they have named "icycle", which can be used to access, pay, and map the bicycle usage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The other major Chinese company, Changzhou Wing Eversafe Public Bicycle Systems, has already issued a single access card to 44 of the 150 cities that use its equipment including the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jincheng,</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sxgov.cn/content/2015-12/15/content_6577098.htm" target="_blank">Jincheng, China Pedelecs</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This month Jincheng, Shanxi added 3,000 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pedelecs to its current 5,000 pedal bicycle service, making it the first and largest deployment of pedelecs not only in China, but in the world. Jincheng joins Barcelona and Milan with mixed pedal and pedelec bicycles in their fleets. With only a few days in operation, it is not known if the new pedelecs are being used as much as in these two other cities. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>North America:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>USA: </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Birmingham,</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.zypbikeshare.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ZYP Bikeshare</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Directions on how to use ZYP</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of mixed Pedelec and pedal services, <a href="https://www.zypbikeshare.com/" target="_blank">ZYP Bikeshare</a> has brought solar-powered electric assist bicycles to the deep South of the United States. Since its debut in October, around 2,800 members have ZYP'ed around town, making the service's name a verb to describe the experience. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7B_To3aEFxDZ-yIp7rqyfYwjEkaLfoQ2ua518Hfwd8C6c27OJwhh89_kaax_L5HF3aK70ju_8_mNBOkzsxhNa3FqDWWyHM_rFjGK4Qoh7t0Y0FgkbZwZp2vjDuZ7bl4yWUQet-A_yFPA/s1600/ZYP+Solar+Station.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7B_To3aEFxDZ-yIp7rqyfYwjEkaLfoQ2ua518Hfwd8C6c27OJwhh89_kaax_L5HF3aK70ju_8_mNBOkzsxhNa3FqDWWyHM_rFjGK4Qoh7t0Y0FgkbZwZp2vjDuZ7bl4yWUQet-A_yFPA/s320/ZYP+Solar+Station.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Around 25% of the current fleet of 300 bikes in 30 stations are pedelecs, which help the residents and visitors conquer the hills surrounding the Central Business District (CBD). This spring the service will grow to 100 pedelecs and 300 8-speed pedal bikes in 40 totally solar stations. All the bikes are 'smart GPS-enabled' and the illuminated kiosk can dispense a rechargeable card for those who are only occasional users. As with many services, the bikes can be accessed using a mobile phone application. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ZYP'ing around the Birmingham's CBD is now "no sweat" with a little pedal assist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">images: </span><a href="http://www.qle.me/detail/index/3003" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">IBSplus Bike</a><span style="font-size: x-small;">, </span><a href="http://www.sxgov.cn/content/2015-12/15/content_6577098.htm" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">Jincheng Pedelec</a><span style="font-size: x-small;">, </span><a href="http://b-metro.com/zyp/22890/" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">ZYP Bikeshare</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:russellmeddin@bikesharephiladelphia.org" target="_blank">Russell Meddin</a> <a href="http://www.bikesharephiladelphia.org/" target="_blank">bikesharephiladelphia.org</a></span><br />
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After many years of publishing academic articles on
bike-sharing while working on my master’s degree with the hope of someone else bringing
bike-share to the shores of the U.S., I became impatient with the wait and knew
I had to be the change I wished to see. So in November 2005, I left the safety
of a municipal job with benefits to found MetroBike in order to foster
bike-sharing’s introduction. MetroBike was the U.S.’s first bike-share
consultancy. My parents thought I was crazy. Looking back, I guess I was. </div>
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With MetroBike I’ve had the opportunity to assist in
founding Capital Bikeshare in the Washington, D.C. region where we serve in a
managerial and planning role for two of the system’s municipal owners, having
sited 132 of the service’s stations. I’ve enjoyed returning to Copenhagen – the
city where I first learned about bike-sharing in 1995 – to help the region
modernize the former coin-operated system that helped the world see what
bike-share could be on a large-scale. There have been many other non-profit,
for-profit, academic, and local and federal government clients over the years. Also,
I’ve doubled the size of MetroBike from one to two people – a 100% increase!</div>
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While MetroBike isn’t a Fortune 500 company, it’s nice
that a small business can help change the world. Thank you
to MetroBike’s past and present clients and the folks who have believed in me
to bring this crazy little idea of bike-share into their pocket of the world. Thanks
also to the readers of The Bike-sharing Blog and The Bike-sharing World Map. It’s
wonderful to be able to do something that I love in making bikes available to
all for a cleaner and healthier planet. We’re looking forward to the next 10 successful
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Chicago Conferences</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Swiss Designed <a href="http://www.velobility.net/" target="_blank">Velobility</a> SwissFleet Pedelec</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Shared Use Mobility Center (SUMC) and the North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) joint conference had two very interesting Public Use Bicycling (PUB) products on display, both making their North American debut: The Velobility pedelec and the Blaze Safety Laserlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.velobility.net/" target="_blank">Velobility</a>, a Swiss producer of bike systems in service in Europe and the Middle East, showed its new <a href="http://www.velobility.net/bike-models/" target="_blank">SwissFleet</a> pedelec. One of the most intriguing aspects of this bicycle is it has multiple methods for re-charging its electrical-assist motor. Not only could it be recharged at its conventional powered docking station, but also using a soon-to-be adopted universal <a href="http://www.energybus.org/" target="_blank">EnergyBus</a> connector made for all electric vehicle rechargers which are planned to be widely available in many cities. This could be a game changer. This bike improves upon Velobility's <a href="http://www.velobility.net/rideboxsystem/" target="_blank">RIDEBOX</a> which the Blog wrote about <a href="http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/2012/07/bike-sharing-world-first-week-of-july.html" target="_blank">previously</a>. This feature has an electronic self-contained locking mechanism, the electric-assist motor, battery, and all the electronics. There is an on-bike user keypad interface with RFID, NFC, and smartphone connections for easy operation. More importantly, it's a nice riding bike for PUB service!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://shop.blaze.cc/" target="_blank">Blaze Laserlight</a> on a London Santander Cycle</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bright spot of the new products was definitely the <a href="http://shop.blaze.cc/" target="_blank">Blaze Laserlight</a> fitted on a PBSC Urban Solutions bicycle. After a year long process, the developers of Blaze working with Transport for London (TfL) and their operator, SERCO, adapted this safety laser light for use on 250 Santander Cycles in London as a trial. The laser light projects an image of a bicycle on the street 6 meters in front of the bicycle while it is in motion and at night. This makes both pedestrians, other cyclists, and motor vehicles take note of the oncoming cycle hire bicycle. All PUB systems should consider incorporating this device in their fleets.<br /><br />Here is a video of the Blaze Laserlight:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The small <a href="https://greatrides.bcycle.com/" target="_blank">Great Rides B-cycle</a> program accomplished an amazing feat for a North American program this week. According to <a href="http://mixfargo.com/news/articles/2015/aug/27/bikeshare-sets-new-record-for-one-day-use-in-fargo/" target="_blank">KRWK</a>, with a mere 101 bikes in 11 stations, the program managed 1,850 rides in one day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One metric used to determine the success of a program is how many times, on average, each bike is used in one day. The term for this is 'trips per bike per day' or (TPBPD).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The highest TPBPD <a href="http://www.citibikenyc.com/" target="_blank">CitiBike</a> in New York City claimed is around 11. The occidental world record has been held by <a href="http://www.dublinbikes.ie/" target="_blank">DublinBikes</a> in Dublin, Ireland which reported around 15 TPBPD. We won't talk about China, because there are a few cities that have consistently broken out of the teens with their TPBPD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Great Rides in Fargo North Dakota has a 18.5 TPBPD! Congratulations! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now to be fair, about a third of the Great Ride stations are on the campus of North Dakota State University. All students are eligible to enroll in the program at no charge. There is no fee for the first 30 minutes of each ride on campus or off. This greatly contributes to the program's success. Yes, it is a great ride!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are interested in starting a Public Use Bicycle program or making one better, consider signing up for <i>Move Together</i>.</span><br />
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Hey bike-share system owners and operators, this post is for you!<br />
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It is said that something doesn’t matter unless it is
counted. According to <a href="http://www.bikesharingmap.com/" target="_blank">The Bike-sharing World Map</a>, there are nearly <span style="color: windowtext;">900 bike-share systems worldwide</span>, yet how
are the systems performing globally and how is your local system doing? How many trips are being made? How many people have used the service? How many kilometers or
miles have the bikes been ridden? </div>
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Some bike-share systems make their anonymized ridership
data publicly available either as large database files or through a more
user-friendly “dashboard” as the Washington, D.C. Department of Transportation
has done for <a href="http://cabidashboard.ddot.dc.gov/cabidashboard/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Capital Bikeshare</span></a> (image below). Many rail and bus
transit systems have been doing this for much longer than bike-share systems.
Now it's time for bike-share to step it up and do an even better job of reporting to show
the contributions the industry is making and prove we are here for the
long-term, rather than just being a decade-long fad. There is a grace period for infant systems, but as systems mature into adulthood, we need to be doing the same info sharing that other transit systems are providing. In fact, we should do better.</div>
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To document this data, the North American Bike-share
Association and<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> its
members have created the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133xzhStJU8NWj8Cn4CNcAvXz2PramnnefrxfTyqu1OY/edit#gid=342167781" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">International Bikeshare Database</span></a></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to collect and share
important information about bike-share services in a user-friendly format for
the benefit of its members and the general public. The Database has the goal of
being the prime source for bike-share data for comparative purposes for those
within the industry, for academic purposes to foster research in the nascent
field, and anyone else who cares. Data about participating bike-share systems is provided with its latest
fiscal year information, monthly trip and estimated distances, and a glossary
of terms to assist the industry develop its vocabulary. </span></div>
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It's rare that a totally new form of transit comes into existence and since bike-share has done so, it needs to follow best practices in the greater transit industry and develop its own best practices within its subset of the transit industry. This is an opportunity to use some of the best practices that pre-existed bike-share and develop specific ones that apply only to us. Most of the folks I know who have come to this industry are coming with a bike background, rather than transit background. This is bringing in lots of new thinking into how to develop the industry. Having an industry-wide resource, such as The International Bike-share Database, is necessary. The Database is similar to the National Transit Database which is for U.S. transit systems, but does not include bike-share... yet.</div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Database is starting off small, but hopefully will grow as the number of systems in North
America grows and evolves</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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The term "unicorn bike" came about to describe a marketing campaign for a North American bike-share service, likely <a href="http://articles.redeyechicago.com/2013-07-31/news/40972976_1_bike-fun-way-chicagoans#sOsxMEKeiKC1afdY.01" target="_blank">Chicago in 2013</a>. It was one bike that had a different color than the rest which made it stand out from the crowd and therefore drew attention to it. Unicorn bikes have been replicated in other services and makes a great marketing tool to generate interest in the system or for events such as D.C.'s Cherry Blossom Festival as shown in the tweet below.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/bikeshare">@bikeshare</a> the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bikeinbloom?src=hash">#bikeinbloom</a> looked great in Southwest Thursday evening, home of the cherry blossoms! <a href="http://t.co/Oevnxhd2Fu">pic.twitter.com/Oevnxhd2Fu</a></div>
— Sarah Young (@Arglefraster) <a href="https://twitter.com/Arglefraster/status/586502293798969345">April 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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With Montreal's season launch for 2015, they debuted a family of unicorn bikes. As unicorns aren't real, (or are they?), there isn't a proper term for a grouping of them like a gaggle of geese. I know this because I checked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> which knows all and is mostly kinda right some of the time. We'll call a grouping of unicorn bikes a "guffaw". You'll see what I mean in the photo below -- so much color, so much smiling and laughter. <br />
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Bixi had about 30 specially designed bikes which were a variety of solid colors with designs on the downtube, rack, and mudguard. The bikes are eye-catching and will surely turn heads as folks wonder, "Is that a Bixi?" and then realize the bike's shape is familiar, so it must be.<br />
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The "Bike In Bloom" that we use in D.C. during Cherry Blossom season has been very popular with the public with its associated contest which encourages customers to tweet a photo of the bike. A few of the lucky tweeters win prizes, including annual memberships and gifts donated by local businesses.</div>
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