The service Bizi Zaragoza It is already completely available, since Monday, July 21, throughout Zaragoza. In total, 2,500 electric bicycles and 276 stations distributed throughout the city that will allow citizens to always have a bicycle ready to use 5 minutes at the foot of their neighborhoods, “as Antonio Aranda, territorial delegate of Serveo, the concessionary company, the concessionary company, this Monday at a press conference. With six months of advance regarding forecasts, this service arrives for the first time to areas such as Torrero, Miralbueno, Oliver-Valdefierro, Casablanca, Las Fuentes or San José.
With this implementation, The mayor of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, He has recognized that “Zaragoza is leading being a city with cleaner mobility throughout Spain.” “We are talking about that if we compare ourselves in the service we have with respect to other Spanish cities we are in front of Madrid in the number of bicycles per inhabitant or stations per inhabitant. In Zaragoza, we have 289 average bicycles for each Zaragozano while in Madrid they have 456 per Madrid,” said the mayor.
And, he pointed out, the same goes for the number of stations. In Zaragoza, there are 2,600 inhabitants per station and in Madrid 5,600. “This means that we have a much closer service to all Zaragoza, much more accessible and much more useful. I think it is an example of that real impact that the bike system has on the daily life of the Zaragozano and moves and is really proposed as a real public transport alternative to move around the city,” said Chueca.
In addition, he has also announced that Zaragoza has been recognized as one of the 100 cities in the world of bicycle by Copenhagenize, one of the most complete classifications about European cities in the use of the bicycle. It is the first time that the Aragonese capital is preselected in this ranking.
1.8 million sponsorship journeys
Bizi Zaragoza deployed the first electric bicycles in the city at the beginning of the year and since that time 1.8 million journeys have been made which is more than 4 million kilometers. “For us to put it in value, that means that we have given more than 100 laps to the earth and that we have been more than 10 times to the Moon. Each hard media displacement about 11 minutes, which confirms that the public bike is already the option preferred by the Zaragozans to move,” said Antonio Aranda, a territorial delegate of Serveo.
Thus, the 46,000 users and the 21,000 subscribers have been exceeded (it is expected that there will be 50,000 at the end of the year). For stations, the most used are that of Plaza España, Plaza San Francisco, those close to hospitals such as Miguel Servet or the clinician and, in general, all in the downtown area. Bizi Zaragoza is an intelligent public bike service that makes use of AI to analyze what are those areas with more demand and adjust the distribution of bicycles based on this. Now, with the total implementation, that system must also be adjusted with the objective of seeing how the greatest number of bikes affects the uses.
Until now, 15 uses were being recorded per bike and day, a fact that doubles the usual in other cities. Until the end of the year, the welcome rate in the annual bond is 30 euros.
