SmartBike

An innovative approach to public transport

SmartBike is a revolutionary and exciting new means of public transportation, using new technologies to facilitate fast and easy access to the user and organized to be a true public transport service for each individual.

This transport service is available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and is accessible for all. The stations are strategically placed at regular intervals throughout the city, located close to public transport hubs such as train-, metro-, and bus stations and at central locations like office and shopping areas as well as tourist attractions.

Providing the public with the missing link between existing points of public transportation and desired destinations, SmartBike offers a new form of mobility, complementing the existing public transport. The service will cause a major transformation in the way people travel around cities and offers convenience, freedom of movement and time!

It is undisputed that SmartBike is the world’s only street-proven system that has been developed and refined during more than ten years of program operation. The service has been installed in a wide variety of environments, taking into account geographical as well as meteorological aspects. In 2007, Clear Channel Outdoor will become the first company to implement a fully automatic bicycle-sharing program in the United States, in Washington DC.

Historians of public bike sharing services all credit Clear Channel Outdoor with a pioneering role. The very first SmartBike installation was ours in the city of Rennes, France, in 1998, and subsequently its recent spread to Scandinavia and Spain.

The popularity of the service is easily explained as cities around the world are fighting traffic congestion, struggling to reduce pollution and working hard to extend their networks of public transportation. Additional benefits such as reducing theft of public bicycles as well as the obvious positive effect on public health also contribute to improving a city’s identity.