Dockless Bikeshare

Indego

Philadelphia to License Dockless Bike and Scooter Share Companies

Philadelphia offers another regulatory model to respond to the proliferation of dockless bike, ebike, and electric scooter share companies.

June 27, 2018 - PlanPhilly

Times Square

Dockless Bikeshare Pilot to Launch in New York City

Critics of Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Five-Borough Bikeshare" program argue that Citi Bike should be expanded instead.

June 2, 2018 - Crain's New York Business

Dockless Bikeshare

Report Offers Strategies for Dockless Bike and Scooter Success

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy weighs in on the hottest topic in alternative transportation.

May 21, 2018 - Mashable

Hubway Bikeshare

Bikeshare 'Border War' Breaks Out in Boston

Private dockless bikeshare companies are encroaching on territory controlled by public, docked bikeshare companies.

May 20, 2018 - The Boston Globe

Free Floating Bikeshare

Dockless Bikeshare Has More Bikes Than Riders

Private bikeshare companies have rolled out large fleets of bikes in cities around the world and United States, but despite their ubiquity, dockless bikeshare is actually much less popular than traditional bikeshare.

May 9, 2018 - Governing

Indego

A Typology of Bikeshare Operations

As bikeshare operations have evolved and spread they've begun to differentiate, not just between docked and dockless, but also in terms of public or private ownership and electric and non-electric offerings.

April 28, 2018 - CityLab

Dockless Bikeshare Service Launches in St. Louis, With City's Blessing

The city of St. Louis has launched a permitting system for dockless bikeshare companies LimeBike and Ofo to operate.

April 17, 2018 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Electric Scooters

Scooter Mania in San Francisco

Entitled tech bros! Disrupted sidewalks! Mass impound sweeps! Social media convulsions!

April 17, 2018 - TechCrunch

Free Floating Bikeshare

Dockless Bikeshare Regulations Search for Balance

The Dallas City Council is currently pondering a very contemporary question: how far should the city go in regulating dockless bikeshare companies?

April 12, 2018 - Smart Cities Dive

E-Bike Bikeshare

Breaking News: Uber Buys JUMP Bikes

Beleaguered transportation network company Uber has acquired JUMP, one of the dockless bikesharing companies making news in recent months in cities around the United States.

April 9, 2018 - CNET

Free Floating Bikeshare

BART Has Had Enough of Dockless Bikes

With piles of them strewn around stations, the transit agency is "cracking down" on bikeshare companies.

April 4, 2018 - San Jose Mercury News

Dockless Bikeshare

Friday Eye Candy: Dockless Bikes, as Far as the Eye Can See

You might have read about the oceans of impounded dockless bikes, piling up around cities in China, but you've never seen them like this.

March 30, 2018 - The Atlantic

Spin and LimeBike

Finding a Place for Dockless Bikes: Impound

Several dockless bike companies have continued to operate on the streets of Coronado, California, despite the city's decision not to permit the business.

March 22, 2018 - San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego Merchants Call for Halt to Dockless Bikeshare Operations

Public bikeshare arrived in San Diego in 2014. Last month, three companies unleashed thousands of dockless bikes, cluttering sidewalks in three business districts to the chagrin of merchants who want a time-out so the city can develop regulations.

March 12, 2018 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Free Floating Bikeshare

Dockless Bikeshare and Racist Dog Whistles: 'Why are you assuming that bike is stolen?'

Urbanist and advocate Kristen Jeffers decries the thinly veiled racism underlying complaints about D.C.'s dockless bikeshare program.

February 7, 2018 - Greater Greater Washington

Spin and LimeBike

Florida Law Would Take Regulatory Control of Bikeshare Operations

Republicans from the Florida House of Representatives are trying to take control of the potentially thorny issue of dockles bikeshare.

February 2, 2018 - StateScoop

Jump Bikesahre

Uber Now in the Bikesharing Business

Ride-hailing service Uber is piloting a new venture in San Francisco alongside dockless bike-sharing startup Jump.

February 1, 2018 - Modern Cities

Lime Bikes

Bikes for Equity in Dallas

Empowering cycling in Dallas is not about appeasing hipsters. It’s about making a more healthy equitable city, Krista Nightengale argues in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News.

January 11, 2018 - The Dallas Morning News

Grid Bike Share

On the Pitfalls of Dockless Bikeshare

App-driven bikeshare, without the station, has been spreading rapidly, especially in China. But the system comes with its share of problems, including its own version of the tragedy of the commons.

November 14, 2017 - The Guardian

Hubway Bikeshare

16 Boston-Area Cities Team Up for New Regional Bikeshare

A new regional bikeshare program with all the latest advancements in bikeshare technology is on a fast-track in 16 Boston-area communities.

October 23, 2017 - WickedLocal Concord

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