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Bicycles stolen in Amsterdam mostly don’t leave the Amsterdam area, according to a study by MIT’s Senseable City Lab in collaboration with TU Delft. The researchers placed inexpensive GPS trackers in 100 second-hand bikes. Seventy of those bikes were stolen. They tracked the stolen bikes and found that 68 remained in the city or surrounds.

Scientists placed trackers on 100 bikes in Amsterdam and of the 70 that were stolen, a total of 68 didn’t leave the area

Researchers tracked the whereabouts of stolen bicycles in Amsterdam, revealing patterns of activity after bikes are pilfered. The work was led by members of MIT’s Sensable City Lab.