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Prepared for John B. | Delivered October 1, 2019
Dockless Bikeshare Market
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Goals
To understand the market size, market growth, and major players in the
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Early Findings
2017
At the end of 2017, dockless bikes accounted for about
44%
of the total bike share market in the U.S., but the bikes only accounted for about
4%
of the bike share rides. With
35 million
trips taken in 2017, that means 1.4 million were on dockless bikes (
35 million
*.04).
There were approximately 44,000 dockless bikes at the end of 2017.
There were
five major companies
in the dockless bikeshare space at the end of 2017: Jump (formerly Social Bicycles), Limebike, MoBike,
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BlueGoGo was the first company to introduce dockless bike sharing in the U.S. but they
declared bankruptcy
in 2017.
There were dockless bike systems in several states in 2017, including Washington, California, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina.
2018
There were approximately
3 million trips
taken on dockless pedal bikes in 2018 and
6 million
on dockless
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. However, dockless bikes have mostly disappeared from the U.S. compared to their growth in 2017.
A map published by the National Association of City Transportation Officials, shows
Washington state
as the only location with dockless bikes only in the U.S.
Dockless
e-scooters
grew in popularity which contributed to the decline of dockless bikes.
Lime and Spin
changed their focus from dockless bikes to dockless e-scooters
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