YouBike
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YouBike (Chinese: 微笑單車; pinyin: Wéixiào Dānchē), originally Taipei Bike Sharing System, is a public bicycle sharing service offered by the Taipei City Department of Transportation in a BOT collaboration with local manufacturer Giant Bicycles. As of March 2025, YouBike service stations are available in the following areas in Taiwan: Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu Science Park, Miaoli County, Taichung City, Chiayi County, Chiayi City, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County, and Taitung County. Additionally, YouBike service stations are als
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- bicycle-sharing system
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Taoyuan
- Location
- Taiwan
- Official website
- www.youbike.com.tw
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- inception
- 2009-03-11
- Commons category
- YouBike
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Bikes
- Fees
- Government subsidies
- References
- External links
YouBike (Chinese: 微笑單車; pinyin: Wéixiào Dānchē), originally Taipei Bike Sharing System, is a public bicycle sharing service offered by the Taipei City Department of Transportation in a BOT collaboration with local manufacturer Giant Bicycles. As of March 2025, YouBike service stations are available in the following areas in Taiwan: Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu Science Park, Miaoli County, Taichung City, Chiayi County, Chiayi City, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County, and Taitung County. Additionally, YouBike service stations are also available in Putian, China.
In 2014, the system saw 22 million rentals, double the 11 million rentals the previous year, with 196 rental stations circulating 6,046 bikes. As of February 2023, there are a total of 1,582 YouBike 1.0 rental stations and 5,246 YouBike 2.0 rental stations across Taiwan, with a total of 653 million rentals. And is planned that by 2026, the number of stations will increase from the current 1,338 to 2,000, and the number of bikes will increase from 16,562 to 27,500.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “YouBike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.