Decobike
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DECOBIKE is a bicycle sharing system deployed in the City of Miami Beach
. It’s a green program initiative aimed to replace the need for cars and taxis for local and short trips within the city. The program was rolled out on March 15, 2011 with approximately 60 kiosks & 500 bikes throughout the city. Miami Herald Article
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...
. It’s a green program initiative aimed to replace the need for cars and taxis for local and short trips within the city. The program was rolled out on March 15, 2011 with approximately 60 kiosks & 500 bikes throughout the city. Miami Herald Article
See also
- Alternatives to the automobileAlternatives to the automobileEstablished alternatives for some aspects of automobile use include public transit , cycling, walking, rollerblading and skateboarding. Car-share arrangements are also increasingly popular – the U.S...
- Bicycle rentalBike rentalA bike rental or bike hire business is a bike shop or other business that rents bikes for short periods of time for a fee...
- Bicycle cultureBicycle cultureBicycle culture can refer to a mainstream culture that supports the use of bicycles or to a subculture. Although "bike culture" is often used to refer to various forms of associated fashion, it is erroneous to call fashion in and of itself a culture....
- Free bicycle/Short term hire schemes
- Sustainable transportSustainable transportSustainable transport refers to any means of transport with low impact on the environment, and includes walking and cycling, transit oriented development, green vehicles, CarSharing, and building or protecting urban transport systems that are fuel-efficient, space-saving and promote healthy...
- CarsharingCarsharingCar sharing or Carsharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use...
- Collaborative consumptionCollaborative consumptionThe term collaborative consumption is used to describe an economic model based on sharing, swapping, bartering, trading or renting access to products as opposed to ownership. Technology and peer communities are enabling these old market behaviours to be reinvented in ways and on a scale never...