The World's Top 7 Bike-Share Systems

If you want to have a great bike-share program in your city, a few factors are key, according to a report just out from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. They include:

• Lots of densely situated stations, ideally no more than about 325 yards apart
• Many bikes (10-30 per 1,000 residents in the coverage area)
• A sweeping coverage area that's more than six square miles
• Solid, usable bikes with hardware that discourages theft
• Easy-to-use stations and payment systems

If you don't have enough bikes and stations in a wide enough area, you're setting a system up for failure. Read more.