Motivate systems, including Citi Bike in New York, Divvy in Chicago, Capital Bikeshare in the D.C. area, Hubway in the Boston area and BIKETOWN in Portland, OR were responsible for over 80 % of
bike share trips taken in 2016.
Motivate systems, including Citi Bike in New York, Divvy in Chicago, Capital Bikeshare in the D.C. area, Hubway in the Boston area, BIKETOWN in Portland and Ford GoBike in the San Francisco Bay Area, are responsible for over 80 percent
of bike share trips taken annually.
While this type of ride might look quite different from the
average bike share trip, bike share professionals can still learn from the equity - oriented conversations and planning that went into LACBC's successful program.
In 2017, 48 % of all station -
based bike share trips took place during rush hours (7 - 9AM or 4 - 6PM), and 76 % of all trips took place on weekdays.1
In developing the estimate, NACTO also assumed two possible average trip lengths to create a «high» and «low» estimate for the total number of
dockless bike share trips.
According to the National Association of City Transportation Officials there were over 28 million
U.S. bike share trips taken in 2016, a 25 % increase over the prior year.
Over 80 percent of
the bike share trips taken in 2016 across the country were on Motivate bikes.
Over 35 million
bike share trips were taken in 2017, 25 % more than in 2016 The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an association of 60 cities in North America, today released the second - ever nationwide count of bike share rides in the United States.
NACTO's methodology for counting dockless
bike share trips is provided in the Appendix (below).
Another key finding was that more than 123 million
bike share trips have been taken since 2010, and it comes at no surprise that the number of companies entering the bike share market has been going up rapidly of late.
The country's largest systems generate the vast majority of all bike share rides, with the five biggest systems (Citi Bike in New York, Capital Bikeshare in Greater Washington DC, Citi Bike in Miami, Divvy in Chicago, and Hubway in Greater Boston) generating 85 % of
all bike share trips.
Over 28 million
bike share trips have been managed through this same software.