TOP STORIES 🔥

🌲 Human Forest secures £5.5m

London-based Forest (formerly Human Forest) just raised an additional £5.5m, having raised £12m in a Series A back in April. The company told Sifted at the same time that they were also profitable across all operations (excluding the cost of deploying bikes).

With dockless bike ridership on the rise - more on that next week when we drop our Q3 European Index - perhaps they will now be looking to take their unique business model beyond London…

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LAUNCHES AND EXPANSIONS 🚀

Altervélo | Bikes (170)
Launch in Réunion Island (FR)

Bolt | Bikes
Launch in Nicosia (CY) | 60
Launch in Leeuwarden (NL) | 100

BUE | Bikes (60)
Launch in Entroncamento (PT)

Cambio | Cars (2)
Upcoming launch in Essen (BE)
Launch in Dilbeek (NL)

Citiz | Cars (2)
Launch in Divonne-les-Bains (FR)

Clem.mobi | Bikes (2) & cars (2)
Launch in Flers (FR)

Enjoy | Cars
Launch in Padua (IT)

GoSharing | Mopeds (175) & bikes (100)
Launch in Leeuwarden (NL)

GreenMobility | Cars (1,000)
Upcoming launch in Copenhagen (DK)

Loue’ise | Cars
Launch in Saint-Erblon (FR)

Mevo | Stations (25)
Launch in Gdańsk (PL)

Mobicity | Bikes
Launch in Châteaubriant (FR)

nextbike | Stations (14)
Launch in Germering (DE) | (14)
Launch in Bedburg | (5)

Publibike | Stations (4)
Launch in Basel (CH)

Remi | Cars
Launch in Toury (FR)

Vélib | Bikes
Launch in Villeneuve-la-Garenne (FR)

EXITS 👋

Share Now | Cars
Exit Copenhagen (DK) 

Cityscoot | Mopeds (2,050)
Exit Milan and Turin (IT) due to financial constraints

POLIS Conference: T-2 days

⏰ 9am, Thursday 30th November

🧭 Session 4G, Cafeteria

🎙 “Solving challenges that shared mobility faces in 2024”

TENDER WATCH 👀

🔴 Closed

🟢 Open

Agios Nikolas (GR) | 🚲 (1 × 36)
▪️ Application deadline 12/12
▪️ 36 bikes & 6 stations

🟠 Upcoming & rumoured

A Coruña (ES) | Bike scheme set to be put up for tender before end of 2024.

Freiburg (DE) | Bike tender to be announced for 2024. The current Frelo scheme (nextbike by TIER) is made up of 720 bikes & 92 stations.

⚡️ Tell us what countries you’d like us to focus on.

CITY UPDATES 🌐

Astypalea (GR) | AstyMove MaaS project highly succesful.

Barcelona (ES) | Preliminary agreement reached with Bicing workers, as strikes called off.

Bonn (DE) | Council discusses establishing scooter sharing zones.

Bristol (UK) | TIER could be fined over slow rollout of scooters.

Brussels (BE) | 450 scooter drop zones to be installed.

Endingen (DE) | Council votes against regional bike-share tender participation.

Escoire (FR) | Shared bikes offered to residents for free.

Gdańsk (PL) | Urban Sharing CEO questions whether Mevo success is long-term.

Gries (DE) | Plans to launch a bike-sharing garage.

Limerick (IE) | Number of shared bike users has been halved in the last five years.

Lünen (DE) | Decision made to continue bike sharing scheme.

Lyon (FR) | e-Vélo’v bikes to be replaced by JC Decaux by 2025.

Moncton (FR) | $50,000 allocated in 2024 budget to develop car sharing.

Nuremberg (DE) | Station-based system for scooters to be introduced from May 2024.

Paris (FR) | Car sharing lane to be introduced on the Périphérique.

Portugal (PT) | Shared mobility services to now be included in free student transport passes.

Rorschach (CH) | TIER scooter trials to be extended until 2026.

Saint-Nazaire (FR) | New VelYcéo agency inaugurated, and plans to deliver 1,600 bikes by June 2024.

Temse (BE) | Car sharing test day held, and more vehicles to be added to the fleet.

Torres Novas (PT) | BUTe service temporarily suspended.

Veldhoven (NL) | Designated parking spaces for shared bikes and mopeds to be implemented from 2024.

York (UK) | Scooters fitted with safety sound system.

INDUSTRY NEWS 🗞️

Dott, Lyft and other mobility companies discuss whether cities should offer micro-subsidies.

Getaround generated $59.4m in revenue in 2022 financials.

MMfE publishes micromobility parking recommendations.

MUBi presents 23 measures to boost bicycle mobility.

TIER partners with Navit to simplify corporate mobility & statistics released about shared mobility’s sustainable impact in Italy.