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...
Tags: bike sharing software, CityRyde Spark, University Bike Sharing, University of Colorado at Boulder
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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...
Tags: Bcycle, Denver Bike Share, Seattle, Seattle Department of Transportation, university of washington
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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...
Tags: bike sharing software, CityRyde Spark, Recycles, Spark Software, University of Chicago
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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...
Tags: Bike Walk Twin Cities, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, City Ride, CityRide, insurance, Minneapolis, Nice Ride, St. Paul, University of Minnesota
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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...
Tags: City Ride, CityRide, Irvine, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, University of California, ZotWheels
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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...
Tags: Bicycle Sharing Systems Worldwide, Bike Share, Bike Sharing, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde Report, Feasibility Study, King Count Bike Share, King County, university of washington, Washington Bike Share
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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...
Tags: advertising, bike-share funding, campus, City Ride, CityRide, Clark University, college, drexel, Emory, NYU, Ripon College, St. Xavier University, university, University of New England, University of Oregon
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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...
Tags: brian mcallister, City Ride, CityRide, ebike share, electric bike design, electric bike share, university of washington
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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...
Tags: bike share rfi, Bike Sharing, Boulder, boulder bike share, boulder co bike share, boulder east, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, co bike share, Colorado, colorado bike share, gobikeboulder, university of colorado
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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...
Tags: Bike Share, ccra, City Ride, CityRide, CityRyde, jason meinzer, Mayor Nutter, philadelphia bike share, philadelphia bike sharing
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