Why e-bikes can succeed where earlier bike-share schemes failed
Madison Bland, Abraham Leung and Benjamin Kaufman Shared mobility devices such as bicycles and electric scooters have experienced significant growth across the globe and Australia is no exception. In cities with such offerings, users are able to get around in more convenient and flexible ways. The recent emergence of dockless shared e-scooters (i.e. Lime and Neuron) heralded a new-age of micromobility. In Brisbane, it signalled the end for the ten-year-old CityCycle bike-share scheme. Not long after announcing CityCycle’s demise in late 2020, Brisbane City Council proposed its replacemen...