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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by gevz on Friday August 29, 2014 @10:51PM (#8245444)
I wonder how this problem is solved by car2go. There are no stations to drop the vehicle, and cars can not be transported in bulk. Would it help to get rid of the stations for the bikes?
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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by wuschel on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:28AM (#8248854)
In Germany, Call-a-bike (Deutsche Bahn) [1] operates exactly like this. Bikes can be rented everywhere inside the city, and can be left on every junction within a city. There are no drop-off/rental stations.

So far, I did not have any problems to find a bike when I needed it.

[1] http://www.bahn.de/p/view/service/fahrrad/call_a_bike.shtml

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