University Bike Sharing

 

University of Colorado at Boulder to use CityRyde’s Spark Software

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

CityRyde announces today that the University of Colorado at Boulder has chosen CityRyde’s Spark software to manage their Buff Bikes program which currently has 160 bicycles located at a central hub on campus. The bicycles are available free to students, faculty and staff of the University for up to 48 hours. The University has chosen [...]  View More...

Seattle to take initiative in bike sharing

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

3rd Generation bike sharing first started in the US  in Washington D.C. In 2010 Denver’s B-cycles launched bike sharing of more than 500 bikes and 50 stations. Minneapolis is the next city to host bike sharing, followed by Boston and others. In the West Coast of the US, Seattle has also taken initiative of starting [...]  View More...

University of Chicago agrees to expand Spark Software for their bike sharing program

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

CityRyde and the University of Chicago, after a successful pilot program, have agreed to expand the functionality of CityRyde’s Spark software that is used to manage the University’s bike sharing program – ReCycles. Currently the system is managing 20 bicycles and had 400+ registered users during the pilot period. Spark was launched late last year in [...]  View More...

Insurance Giant Donates $1m to Minneapolis Bike Sharing

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Minneapolis’ forthcoming bike-sharing scheme, entitled Nice Ride, has recently received more than a little financial help from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.  Last month, the nationwide insurance giant offered a donation of $1 million to help fund the third-generation program.  The company puts such weighty financial resources behind programs such as Nice Ride [...]  View More...

Third Generation Bike Share to Deploy at UC Irvine

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Third generation bike sharing on the West coast will likely debut on a university campus before being deployed in a large city such as San Francisco or Portland.  The New York Times reports that the San Diego-based Collegiate Bicycle Company will launch ZotWheels, a fully automated self-service bike share program, this fall at the University [...]  View More...

King County Bike Share Report Released

Friday, July 17th, 2009

3 graduate students from the University of Washington were comissioned to put together a bike sharing feasibility study for King County in Washington state. CityRyde’s report, Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide: Selected Case Studies, was cited as an expert source in this report. CityRyde has embded the report for your review below: var scribd_doc = scribd.Document.getDoc(17582569, [...]  View More...

Changing the campus commute: university bike-share

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The university is to bike-sharing what the amusement park is to a roller coaster: a natural platform from which people can most easily enjoy its use.  With extremely limited parking and consistent efforts to maintain pedestrian-friendly communities, universities have begun to embrace bike-sharing in all its forms, from simple honor system programs to high-tech ones [...]  View More...

eBike Share with Solid Over-mold Tires to Avoid Flats

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Impressive what University students come up with isn’t it… Brian Mcallister has designed this electric bike pictured for the University of Washington 2009 design show. The solution boasts solid over-mold tires to avoid flats and a fully enclosed drive train. The design integrates two charge points at each locking point when docked. Keep up the [...]  View More...

Boulder, CO to implement bike sharing by May 2010

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Boulder, Colorado is less than a year away from deploying the first phase of its third generation bike sharing program, scheduled for May 2010.  The city is currently soliciting information from vendors and other appropriate parties via its publicly released RFI, responses to which will be processed later this summer.  Boulder projects that roughly half [...]  View More...

Not So Easy Riding: Moving Up to Bike Share in Philadelphia

Monday, June 8th, 2009

A featured article titled, “Not So Easy Riding: Moving Up to Bike Share in Philadelphia”, written by CityRyde’s Jason Meinzer was just featured in the Center City Residents’ Association (CCRA) Summer Newsletter. For a copy of the newsletter, click here, and check out page 25. Source: http://www.centercityresidents.org/publication_newsletters.html [Translate]  View More...


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