Here’s how it’s going to work:
Grab, the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia, today unveiled GrabCycle Beta, a marketplace app that will bring mobility partners oBike, GBikes, Anywheel and Popscoot into a single app for bike rental.
With GrabCycle, it’s easy for anyone to find a bike or an e-scooter whenever they need one. This is a pilot project by GrabVentures, Grab’s innovation arm to test new mobility and payment concepts.
Grab also announced Sentosa as its first GrabCycle Venue Partner, as part of a broader strategic partnership between the two companies. There will be dedicated GrabCycle bike parking stations across Sentosa, which would make it easy for users to find a parking space anywhere they go.
Difficulty in finding bike parking spaces is one of the top reasons for indiscriminate parking. At GrabCycle Venue Partner locations, bike parking will be better organised, without polluting public spaces. This will be rolled out at other GrabCycle Venue Partner locations.
Grab has also partnered YCH, Singapore’s largest home-grown supply chain solutions company, to manage proper parking and rebalancing of GrabCycle vehicles at venue partners’ locations.
Bike-sharing and bike rental bring significant benefits to cities and people. It is green and is four times more space efficient than cars. In Copenhagen, the City of Cyclists, bicycle traffic has led to a reduction of approximately 90,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
Bike- sharing is also highly affordable for commuters, making it an effective and scalable solution to supplement public transport coverage in countries.
In Singapore, approximately one in five car commutes are three kilometers and under. There is huge potential to convert this segment of commuters into bike-sharing users, in support of the country’s car-lite ambition. With GrabCycle, the first personal mobility marketplace in Southeast Asia, Grab wants to unlock the freedom of cycling and scooting. Benefits for users include:
Cities today are built around automobiles. With the increasing popularity of bike-sharing, cities now need to think about reallocating space for bikes and PMD users. In addition to creating more parking stations in Singapore with GrabCycle Venue Partners, Grab will work on the following initiatives:
Using data to build a friendly bike-share environment: Grab can leverage its troves of data and insights to collaborate with public and private sector organisations to develop new cycling pathways and common parking spots, improving the experience for cycling enthusiasts and all road users.
GrabCycle Beta is currently in production. For more information about GrabCycle Beta, visit this website.
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