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This electronic newsletter on Bike Sharing is a Spicycles product; the newsletter will
develop in the course of the project and will have a final version in 2008.
Bike Sharing in Berlin
The position of cycling in Berlin is improving and far
removed from this oldest bike in the Berlin Museum for
Technology. The numbers of bike stands is increasing as a
consequence of the Berlin Building Code; more bike related
services can be seen on the street of Berlin like Rickshaws,
bike taxis, guided bike tours, rental bikes.
Cycle rickshaws ‘Bike 4 free’ has more than 200 The German Railways (DB) is as a
add to personal transport bikes with a target figure up to 600 Provider of complete mobility servic-
bikes. They offer 3 rental-stations, es; this includes the Promotion of DB
and you have to pick-up and drop-off Call a Bike and DB Car sharing to
only at the same station. The Rental is a strategic group of customer within
“4 free” but you have to leave your the DB enterprise. Call a Bike and DB
identity card with the station Car sharing thus becomes part of the
manager. The system is financed by DB Railway Card. Increasingly the
marketing of advertising spots on connection of mass public transport
part of the bikes. with means of individual traffic (Call
a Bike, Car sharing) become reality.
‘Call a Bike’ is a bike-renting system
where you can pick up your bike in a
wide area of Berlin during 24 hours
per day, 7 days a week.
Bike taxis, the originally German,
ones can now be seen in many cities The S-Bahn ring is the border of the
of Europe obviously also found there rental area.
place in Berlin.
You have to register once on internet
Berlin on Bike is becoming increas- for identification purposes but after
ingly popular and more and more that the processes for renting and
tourists can be seen on guided tours returning the bike is automated.
by bike. Guided tours are often topic Every customer is identified and
oriented or visit urban districts like the centrally records are kept of every
Berlin Wall or a river trip along River single usage, resulting in exact billing
Spree. per minute.
The new bike rental systems are The attractive design is distinctive, the
all different; Low-tech versus bikes are available at every corner
high-tech, free versus paid for where they have been left by some-
and racks versus flexible systems. one else or by you and you can rent
them for one stretch without having to
The “Fahrradstation” has 5 rental- bring them back to the place where The growing competition is seen as
stations in the city where one can do you left them. a positive development, bike sharing
online booking and reservation;the seems to be more present and Berlin
special offer is the Conference-Bike is becoming more and more a Bike
City.
In the early phases of the project the These are the statistics for 2006: The lessons learnt now will be the
situation was carefully benchmarked w 60 companies have joined the basis for the further investigation of
and a concept study was prepared. bike sharing system. expanding the system to the inner
In the execution building permits ran w 300 smart cards city and to open it up for the public.
in parallel with the procurement w 11 bike stations
process. This allowed a fast start w 125 bicycles in the system The green dots show the stations in
of the construction. w The system was in use in average the test area of the city district
10 times a day Lundby. A prestudy for a possible
Göteborg now has 11 bicycle w Every trip in average 43 minutes expansion has been conducted
stations with about 11-12 bicycles and the red dots show the
per station. The users are satisfied: suggested locations.
w Easy to use
Pilot system in a small area w High reliability
of the city: w Accessible
The system is now for companies w Timesaving - No time spending at
only; about 200 companies were car parking
contacted and 60 companies joined w Free ferry to inner city
the system. w Staff benefit
Please help the Spicycles Team to complete this list and send an e-mail with new entries to
Spicycles@velomondial.net
The Netherlands: • Amsterdam France:
• Alkmaar http://www.macbike.nl/ • Rennes
• Almelo http://www.bikes.nl/gb/indexGB.htm http://veloalacarte.free.fr/smartbike.html
• Almere Buiten http://www.bikecity.nl/ http://www.paris-velo-rent-a-bike.fr/htgb/rent_bike.htm
• Almere Centrum http://www.campingzeeburg.nl/whatdoweoffer_4.html http://www.rouelibre.fr/anglais/index.php
• Alphen aan den Rijn http://www.amsterdam.info/transport/bike-rentals/
• Amersfoort • Tours
• Amstelveen Busstation • Eindhoven http://www.locationdevelos.com/en/index.php
• Amsterdam Amstel www.bikedispenser.com
• Amsterdam Bijlmer • Arçais
• Amsterdam Centraal http://www.bicyclette-verte.com/bv3_le_velo.htm
• Amsterdam Muiderpoort UK:
• Amsterdam RAI • Glyncorrwg, Wales • Clermont Ferrand
• Amsterdam Sloterdijk www.afan-valley-bike-hire.com http://www.moovicite.com/presentation/
• Amsterdam Zuid WTC
• Apeldoorn • Fremington near Barnstaple, Exmoor and Okehampton • Le Marais Poitevin
• Arnhem www.biketrail.co.uk http://www.veniseverteloisirs.fr/
• Assen
• Baarn • Aberdeen • Toulouse
• Best www.cyclehighlands.com www.movimento.coop/innovation.htm
• Bilthoven
• Bovenkarspel-Grootebroek* • Cumbria • Strasbourg
• Boxtel www.keswickmountainbikes.co.uk www.strasbourg.fr/Strasbourgfr/GB/SeDeplacer/Avelo/
• Breda choisir/
• Bussum Zuid* • Wiltshire
• Castricum www.thelockinn.co.uk • Lyon
• Culemborg www.velov.grandlyon.com
• Delft • Inverness-shire, Scotland
• Deventer www.neviscycles.com
• Dordrecht Italy:
• Driebergen-Zeist • Shropshire • Florence
• Ede-Wageningen http://www.pearcecycles.co.uk http://www.florencebybike.it/rental-new.htm
• Eindhoven
• Eindhoven Beukenlaan* • Jersey, Channel Islands
• Emmen www.zebrahire.com Spain:
• Enschede • Barcelona
• Goes • Glasgow http://bikerentalbarcelona.com/english/
• Gouda http://www.gearbikes.com/
• Maassluis http://www.cyclerepairman.co.uk/
• Maastricht Denmark:
• Meppel • Edinburgh • Copenhagen
• Middelburg http://www.biketrax.co.uk/info/bike_hire.php http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/tourist/plan_and_book/
• Naarden-Bussum http://www.cyclescotland.co.uk/1rentals.htm how_to_get_around/bikes/bike_hire
• Nijmegen
• Roermond • Dunoon
• Roosendaal http://www.xbikesargyll.co.uk/home.asp Austria:
• Rotterdam Alexander* • Vienna
• Rotterdam Centraal • Trossachs http://www.pedalpower.at/e2.htm
• Rotterdam Zuidplein http://members.aol.com/scotcycle/ http://www.topbicycle.com/RentDropoffPickup.htm
• Schiedam Centrum www.citybikewien.at
• Schiphol* • Perthshire
• Sittard http://www.comriecroftbikes.co.uk/
• Sneek* http://www.scottishcyclehire.co.uk/ Czech Republic:
• Steenwijk http://www.loch-tay.co.uk/mbikes.htm • Prague
• Tiel http://www.topbicycle.com/RentDropoffPickup.htm
• Groningen • Dundee & St Andrews • Cesky Krumlo
• Den Haag Centraal http://www.spokescycles.net/ http://www.topbicycle.com/RentDropoffPickup.htm
• Den Haag HS • Brno
• Den Haag Laan van NOI* • Fort William & area http://www.topbicycle.com/RentDropoffPickup.htm
• Den Haag Mariahoeve* http://www.neviscycles.com/
• Haarlem http://www.offbeatbikes.co.uk/
• Haarlem Spaarnwoude* Slovakia:
• Heemstede-Aerdenhout • Invernesscity • Bratislava
• Heerenveen http://www.highlandbikes.com/ http://www.topbicycle.com/RentDropoffPickup.htm
• Heerhugowaard
• Helmond • Invernessregion
• ‘s-Hertogenbosch http://members.aol.com/almmoore/index.html Belgium:
• Hillegom* http://web.onetel.com/~mollymo/squarewheels/ • Antwerp
• Hilversum http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/recycles/ http://www.fietshaven.be/Tourists
• Hilversum Noord http://www.speysidebikes.com/
• Hilversum Sportpark
• Hoofddorp* • Aberdeenshire
• Hoogeveen http://www.cabinfever.org.uk/
• Hoorn http://www.cyclehighlands.com/
• Houten
• Kampen • London
• Leeuwarden www.oybike.com
• Leiden Centraal
• Leiden Lammenschans
• Lelystad Germany:
• Tilburg • Berlin
• Utrecht Centraal • Frankfurt
• Utrecht Stadhuis • München
• Utrecht Terwijde* • Köln
• Utrecht Westraven • Dresden
• Velsen Zuid** • Brandenburg
• Venlo http://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/kundenbuchung/
• Vleuten*
• Vlissingen • Dresden,
• Weesp • Erlangen,
• Winschoten* • Heidelberg,
• Woerden • Leipzig,
• Zaandam • Nurnberg,
• Zaltbommel • Wiesbaden.
• Zoetermeer Centrum West www.nextbike.de
• Zoetermeer Stadhuis
• Zutphen
• Zwijndrecht
• Zwolle
http://www.ov-fiets.nl/waarhuur/
Participating Supporting
Cities Agencies
Rome, DB Rent GmbH,
Dipartimento X, Politiche Germany
Ambientali ed Agricole
Italy Goudappel Coffeng BV,
The Netherlands
Berlin,
Senate Department for CPI Progetti S.P.A.,
Urban Development Italy
(SenStadt),
Germany Velo Mondial,
The Netherlands/
Ploiesti, England
City Hall (PMP),
Romania University of Rome
“La Sapienza” DITS,
Bucharest, Italy
Regia Autonoma de
Transport Bucuresti (RATB), ATAC
Romania (Agenzia della Mobilità del
Comune di Roma S.p.A),
Barcelona, Italy
Barcelona Municipality
(BCN), ISIS
Spain (Istituto di Studi per
l’Integrazione dei Sistemi),
Göteborg, Italy
Traffic and Public
Transport Authority
Sweden