Dockless bike sharing is growing in many cities around the world. Wired magazine has an interesting story about the city of Seattle’s efforts to implement a dockless bike sharing system: “the city allowed three companies—Ofo, LimeBike, and Spin—to deploy up to 4,000 bikes each in a six-month trial, in return for a deluge of data about their customers and operations. Seattle planners wanted to understand in granular detail how the systems would work, and how its citizens would use them.” The data are now being analyzed. Hopefully insights will emerge that can be applied to other cities!
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Michael Parrish — June 21, 2018
It would be great if San Jose would do a similar study. I wonder which college at SJSU might undertake such a project?
Walt Jacobs — June 21, 2018
Indeed, Michael! I'll speak with the dean about it :).