Bike Sharing
Basics
Is Seattle’s Helmet Law Killing Its Bike-Share?
Bike-share in Seattle should be doing great, but it has floundered -- and a big reason may be the city's mandatory helmet law.
December 20, 2016
Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color
Car-share and bike-share services are making it easier to go without owning a car in American cities, but access to "shared-use" systems remains limited in communities of color compared to majority-white neighborhoods, according to a new analysis from the Shared Use Mobility Center [PDF].
July 27, 2016
Two Very Different Ways Bike-Share Benefits Transit
A new survey [PDF] by researchers at UC Berkeley and published in Access Magazine sheds light on how bike-share systems interact with transit.
December 9, 2015
What Cities Are Learning About Making Bike-Share More Equitable
So far, the customer base of American bike-share systems has skewed toward affluent white men. But cities have been working to make the systems more useful and accessible to a broader spectrum of people, and in a new report, the National Association of City Transportation Officials has compiled some of the lessons learned.
September 16, 2015
America’s Biggest Bike-Share Operator Now Makes Its Own Bikes
Motivate, the company that runs bike-share systems in several large American cities, is now manufacturing its own bikes. That might explain why the timetable for Citi Bike expansion has been getting a lot firmer.
May 7, 2015
NACTO: If You Want Bike-Share to Succeed, Put Stations Close Together
A new study from the National Association of City Transportation Officials [PDF] adds credence to the theory that station density is a key factor in whether a bike-share system will flourish or flop.
April 29, 2015
Bike-Share Comes to Philly With the Launch of Indego
On Thursday, Philadelphia's long wait for a bike-share system came to an end with the launch of the 60-station, 600-bike Indego system, which is set to expand in the near future. At the kickoff, volunteers and officials -- including Mayor Michael Nutter -- rode about half of those bikes to their docking stations.
April 24, 2015
Two Key Factors That Can Make or Break a Bike-Share Network
What if you could dramatically increase the usefulness of a bike-share system without adding any bicycles or docks? Researchers at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business have come up with a model that they say could help even the most successful bike-share systems in the world get more bang for the buck.
March 26, 2015
The Common Mistake That Undermines American Bike-Share Systems
One of the leading architects of New York City's bike-share system, NYC DOT alum Jon Orcutt, is on a mission to show how the design of bike-share networks affects their success.
February 18, 2015
Arlington Offers Cash Bike-Share Memberships to the Unbanked
Washington, DC, is 50 percent black, but only 3 percent of Capital Bikeshare members are. As in many cities, the DC bike-share system’s users are disproportionately white, educated, and employed.
January 16, 2015