Once you make a reservation, you will have 5 minutes to go and get a bicycle at the station
The use of electric bikes rose by 90% in 2021, compared to 2020
The last few years have seen the new Bicing model establish itself as one of the safest, healthiest and most sustainable means of transport
Bicing continues to implement new functions to improve user experience for its subscribers. From now on users can reserve an electric bicycle to ensure they have one when they reach their station. Reservations will need to be made using Barcelona’s mobility app, which manages Bicing and many of the city’s other services.
To enjoy this new function, all you need is the latest updated version of smou. Once inside the app it's very easy to make a reservation: just look on the map for your station of origin, click on the reservation button and select which type of bicycle you want, mechanical or electric. Any user who has made a reservation will have 5 minutes to go to the station and collect an electric bicycle.
Reserving a mechanical bicycle is just one of options that was already available to Bicing users through smou, which now has another for reserving electric bicycles. One of the various other functions smou offers is for users to take a bicycle comfortably and safely using a QR code, create routes, geolocate the closest stations and check for bicycle availability
A benchmark in sustainable mobility
Thanks to its new model, Bicing has established itself over the last few years as one of the safest, healthiest and most sustainable means of transport. The last two years has seen the number of km travelled by Bicing users triple, reaching 35 million in 2021. A year that ended with 130,000 subscribers, up by 14% on 2019, before the start of the pandemic. There is a clear upward trend for electric bicycle use, which rose by 90% in 2021 in comparison with 2020, reaching over 5 million journeys a year and now representing more than 36% of all journeys. Each electric bicycle travels an average of 750 km every month, while each mechanical bicycle covers 400 km.
This is a project financed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed by European Union – NextGenerationEU.
