Nextbike

nextbike
Industry Urban transport
Founded 2004 (2004)
Founder(s) Ralf Kalupner
Headquarters Leipzig, Germany
Key people Ralf Kalupner (CEO)
Products Bicycle sharing systems
Website www.nextbike.de

nextbike is a German company that designs, manufactures and markets products related to bike-sharing. As of 2011 it operates about 10.000 bikes in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Poland, New Zealand and Turkey.[1] The biggest implementations of the system in Germany are in Ruhr with 3.000 bikes [2] and Nuremberg with 750 bikes at 66 stations.[3] Both projects got funding by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, that offered ten million Euros as prize money in a competition for innovative bike rental schemes.[4] In 2011 nextbike started the system with 250 bikes in Munich the first city of its main German competitor Call a Bike.[5] Besides the big projects, nextbike focuses on about 20 small cities, like Tübingen with only 40 bikes.[6] In 2009 German street furniture provider and outdoor advertiser Wall took a 25,1% stake in nextbike.[7]

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References

  1. ^ Company presentation 2011
  2. ^ metropolradruhr bike sharing with 3.000 bikes at 300 stations
  3. ^ NorisBike project
  4. ^ Borcherding, Anke & Kristina Hartwig & Astrid Karl (2010): Fahrradfahren für Fortgeschritte- ne. Evaluation der Barrieren und Hindernisse der Beteiligung von Städten und Kommunen am Wettbewerb Modellversuch „Innovative öffentliche Fahrradverleihsysteme“ – Neue Mobilität in Städten des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (BMVBS) WZB Discussion Paper SP III 2010-601. Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. [1] / English abstract
  5. ^ NextBike in Munich, Call-a-Bike Munich gets a big competition
  6. ^ The alternative to taking public transport in Tübingen is the bike-hiring system "nextbike". [2]
  7. ^ Wall to Take 25, 1% Stake in nextbike

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