CycleHop
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | November 1, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida |
| Founder | Josh Squire[1] |
| Headquarters | Miami Beach, Florida , United States |
| Website | cyclehop |
CycleHop LLC is a bicycle sharing platform and mobility company that operates bike share systems in fifteen cities in North America, including Vancouver Bike Share in British Columbia.
History
[edit]The company's founder traces its history back to 1997[2] and the company's first patent for an "unattended automated bicycle rental station."[3]
In April 2014, the company bought Capital Bixi company in Canada and in October re-launched the service under VeloGo brand in Ottawa.[4] In 2016, it launched bike-sharing service Mobi in Vancouver, sponsored by Shaw Communications.[5] However, in June 2019, the company announced that was pulling out from Ottawa.[6]
As of January 2015, the firm operated bike-sharing systems in seven cities.[7]
In March 2018, the firm launched HOPR (pronounced like “hopper”), a mobile app that allows to search for public transport, car share and bike share options.[8] As of 2018, it was running bike-sharing systems in 15 cities in the USA and Canada.[8]
The company had planned to move its headquarters from Miami Beach to Santa Monica in 2015,[9] but remained headquartered in Florida as of 2019.[10]
In 2021, CycleHop launched its flagship ride-share program in Rochester under its contract with Rochester Transit Service. The program received a $240,000 grant to add 8 stations to low income neighborhoods in Monroe County.[11] The stations, at which users could find traditional bicycles, electric bikes, and scooters, were developed through a partnership with Emergnt Design Labs and manufactured in Rochester.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Howell, Mike (February 24, 2016). "Bike share CEO promises not to undercut". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "CycleHop I About". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
- ^ "Unattended automated bicycle rental station".
- ^ "New Ottawa-Gatineau bike share service VeloGo launches". CBC.ca. October 10, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Alter, Lloyd (April 24, 2018). "Vancouver's Mobi bike share system is just weird". TreeHugger. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ "VeloGO a no go in Ottawa-Gatineau this summer". CBC.ca. June 22, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Austen, Ian (January 9, 2015). "The Uphill Push to Save a Bike-Share Pioneer". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ a b Bevilacqua, Matt (March 12, 2018). "HOPR Is an All-in-One App for Bike Share, Ride Share, and Public Transit". Bicycling. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Simpson, David Mark (January 29, 2015). "CycleHop moving HQ to Santa Monica, eyes L.A. bikeshare". Santa Monica Daily Press. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Lynch, Ryan (April 29, 2019). "Hopr launches in Orlando as successor to Juice Bike Share". Orlando Business Journal. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Murphy, Justin. "Bike and scooter share program HOPR adds stations in low-income Rochester neighborhoods". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ Nashed, Jeremy (2021-07-31). "HOPR's Vehicle Docking Station". Emergnt Design Labs. Retrieved 2022-10-05.