Bike Estácio Shared Bike System (Tembici)
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Curitiba's docked bike-share tripled its fleet in under a year, betting on GPS-tracked e-bikes and a university sponsor to make the numbers work.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 11 more in Curitiba · 🛴 Shared mobility guide · 🚲 Mobility projects
Tembici runs Curitiba's docked bike-share under sponsor branding "Bike Estácio": launched July 2023 with 250 bikes at 20 stations, it grew to 780 bikes (530 electric) across 51 stations by June 2024. GPS on the e-bikes tracks location and deters theft; riders unlock via the Tembici app or a station QR code.
📊 Impact
Tembici reported the system passed 1 million cumulative trips within less than a year of operation (by mid-2024), with over 1 million km ridden between January and April 2024 alone (operator-reported figures).
🎓 Lesson
Growth came from converting to a sponsor-subsidized model (Estácio) and rapid electrification (530 of 780 bikes are e-bikes) rather than fleet size alone — but all usage figures are self-reported by the operator; no independent ridership audit was found.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Bike Estácio Shared Bike System (Tembici)” — Curitiba, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/curitiba-tembici-bikeshare/ (last verified 2026-08-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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