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 👐 Opening Ceremony success disrupts shared mobility

To prepare for Paris 2024's one-of-a-kind Opening Ceremony, the city created a ‘red zone’ around the Seine, limiting vehicles from moving or being parked around the river. To secure the area, many journeys were disrupted for as much as a week before Friday’s event, including the activity of shared mobility companies.

As you can see from the City Dive dashboard below, fleet distribution across the city was very different from how it usually looks.

During the red zone period (18-26 July), there was an average of 203,647 trips per day, across all shared mobility modes. The same dates a month earlier registered an average of 241,285 trips.

🚲 Bike operators prepare for an Olympic summer

In preparation for the influx of users during the Paris Olympic Games, Dott announced last week a fleet increase of 5,000 bikes across Paris, Saint-Denis and Versailles.

This boosts their Paris fleet to a total of 15,000 electric bikes from July until September, as authorised by Paris City Hall. To cope with the increased fleet and demand, 40 additional staff members will be present to ensure upkeep of the new fleet.

Similarly, Lime increased their fleet to 15,000 bikes at the beginning of the month - check out our previous newsletter for more details.

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Launch in Fátima and Ourém (PT)

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CITY UPDATES 🌐

Ibiza (ES) | TIER-Dott scooters vandalised as city fights vehicle misuse.

Molfetta (IT) | Municipal bike sharing system celebrates 100 days of operations.

Paris (FR) | Certain bus lanes now prohibited for cyclists during the Olympic Games.

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INDUSTRY NEWS 🗞️

N. American shared bike and scooter trips rose 16% from 2022-23, to 133 million - compared to 540 million rides in Europe, as estimated by Fluctuo.

Bolt’s CEO reveals the reason why they still don’t operate in Serbia - the mafia.

Dott launches group rides, allowing up to 3 vehicles to be rented with one account.

Nextbike completes restructuring proceedings.

Mayten acquires shared mobility aggregator Cogo.