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Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by r3bl »

jchanimal wrote: post #16
stephenboyd wrote: post #11

They should remove Seattle's entry here. The Pronto network was cancelled in March due to disuse. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/seattle-bike-...

Seattle has a mandatory helmet law. Are there any successful bike shares in places with helmet laws?

Yes, when those laws are in place, but almost never actually enforced. Nextbike[0] is extremely popular in my city, even though my country has a helmet law in place. They also offer a bike for 30 minutes per day completely free (you can also rent two bikes for free at the same time), so that alone makes it a pretty easy way to travel through half a city without paying a dime. Not a day goes by without me seeing one[1].

As far as my experience goes, the country did try heavily enforcing the helmet law when they first introduced it (about a decade ago), now it seems to me like the police simply doesn't care if you're wearing a helmet or not.

Of course, if you commit any other traffic violation on a bike, you can be pretty damn sure that they're gonna bundle it with "not wearing a helmet" fine.

[0] https://nextbike.com/

[1] I live within a walking distance from the place I work in, so there's no need for me to use one every day.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by harveypoyntz »

kmike84 wrote: post #30
Kiro wrote: post #13

How is the data gathered? In Stockholm all three items were in the middle of the water without any real information. The names sounded faux and were ungooglable.

Data is scraped from various sources (APIs, websites). Code is public: https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes .

Thank you

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by kh_hk »

jakob223 wrote: post #27

Stockholm's bikes all seem to be underwater? But I rode one yesterday so I don't think they're actually underwater..

Seems Stockholm's system in Citybikes were the remnants of a test project by JCDecaux, which was providing the data. The actual project on Stockholm is run (or at least used to be) by ClearChannel.

Actually, many years ago we supported Stockholm's system but stopped doing so after receiving a C&D by, apparently, a sole guy that had permission to use the data in exchange for providing the apps. Most possibly the situation has changed (this was more than 5 years ago) but it left an aftertaste that has stopped me from adding it. A PR to the project for adding Stockholm would be welcome, though.

// Disclaimer: citybikes

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by kh_hk »

stuaxo wrote: post #29

Why are there 2 in London?

In case you mean the dot just next to London, that's a town named Slough, with their own bike share system. By clicking on the dots you can actually zoom in on the systems. Here are some links with these zoomed in:

- https://citybik.es/map/santander-cycles

- https://citybik.es/map/cycle-hire-slough

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by ubikretail »

dwightgunning wrote: post #24
ubikretail wrote: post #17

I built an app over it that attempts to predict the future state of any network. It later recommends addings/substractions in order to keep offer and demand balanced among stations. It could work in about 440 cities but none of the big companies that lead this wanted this. What would you do with it?

That depends why they don't want it. Did any explain this? Maybe you're not articulating the value prop? That'll be a good way to decide whether to keep trying to sell to them, what to change etc. If you've exhausted that you may look at other applications for the technology.

I found two reasons here: - They make money by using bikes as advertising space, so they do not really care about the overall quality of the system as long as they have a permanent exploitation contract.

- They use historic data to approach future situations. In spite they do not have alert systems, they seem to think this is enough. Although, when sun suddenly appears, the shore tends to get crowded and "locked" for hours; they doing nothing about it.

What my system was going to provide was smart routes for the vans, to add or subtract bikes on strategic places.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by yorwba »

averagewall wrote: post #18

It should be called "around the rest of the world" since it omits the biggest and hyper competitive bikeshares in some Chinese cities.

Since the info is scraped from the respective official websites, the Chinese networks will only be added once someone puts in the work to reverse-engineer their apps.

Re: CityBikes: bike sharing networks around the world

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Post by stuaxo »

kh_hk wrote: post #34
stuaxo wrote: post #29

Why are there 2 in London?

In case you mean the dot just next to London, that's a town named Slough, with their own bike share system. By clicking on the dots you can actually zoom in on the systems. Here are some links with these zoomed in: - https://citybik.es/map/santander-cycles - https://citybik.es/map/cycle-hire-slough

No, I actually zoomed right into street level in central London and could see two bikes.

I just assumed it was a different system to Santander cycles, so thought it should be zero.

To reproduce go to

https://citybik.es/

Don't type in anything, just zoom/pan until you get to central London.

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