EnCicla is a public bicycle renting service in

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

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, which began in 2011. It is one of two the public bike sharing programs in Colombia and was the first such program created in Latin America. It is part of the Aburrá Valley Integrated Transport System (''Sistema Integrado de Transporte del Valle de Aburrá'', SITVA).

Description

The system consists of over 1,600 bicycles distributed over 90 stations that are strategically located near points of attraction in the city. The system has approximately 9,100 active users and bicycles have been rented over 13 million times since September 2014. The bicycles are free to use for anyone aged 16 years old or older. Its hours of operation are from 5:30 am to 9:00 pm Monday through Friday. To rent a bicycle, one must first register online on EnCicla's official website. Tourists can present their passports as identification to rent a bike. Several bike stations are near major universities, including National University of Colombia at Medellín, Pontifical Bolivarian University, and the

University of Antioquia The University of Antioquia ( es, Universidad de Antioquia), also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university located primarily in the city of Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, with regional campuses in Amalfi, Andes ...

. Arví Park has six bicycles stations collectively known as the "Bicycle in the Park" stations. Due to the complexity of the transport systems in Medellin and the challenges for integrating EnCicla with other modes of transport, such as the Metro, a study by Universidad EAFIT assessed EnCicla as a new bicycle sharing system (BSS) in Medellin, Colombia.Bejarano, M., Ceballos, L. M., & Maya, J. (2017). A User-Centred Assessment of a New Bicycle Sharing System in Medellin. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 44, 145–158. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2016.11.004

History

The first stage of the bicycle sharing system consisted of 400 bicycles.

Stations

And more.

References

Community bicycle programs Bicycle sharing in Colombia {{Colombia-stub