BOSEH Bike Share
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BOSEH — 'Bike on the Street Everybody Happy' — was launched in 2017 under mayor Ridwan Kamil as an automated bike share: register in person, get a BRIZZI stored-value card, tap it at a dock, enter a PIN and the lock releases. The docks and cards still work, and the city transport unit still runs it at Rp 1,000 for the first hour. But the automation now sits on top of a manual operation. Registration is only possible at five staffed booths, two of them inside a private developer's township where the electric and tandem bikes are kept, and reporters found broken docks, snapped locks and missing bikes at unstaffed shelters. Riders describe arriving at a shelter with nobody to ask when the machine will not cooperate.
📊 Impact
Local reporting in August 2025 found the shelter network had shrunk from about 30 sites at launch, with more than a dozen switched off; 200 bikes were being trucked out from a depot by the transport department to 23 active shelters each morning and collected again in the evening. At one shelter with eight docks, two bikes were parked. Staff at another put weekday demand at 10 to 15 rentals.
🎓 Lesson
Automatic docking is what makes a bike share cheap to run; once the docks are unreliable, the city pays for a van, a driver and a booth attendant to do the job the hardware was bought to do — and the system quietly becomes a bike rental with extra steps. Spare parts, not launch fleets, decide whether a docked scheme survives its first decade.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “BOSEH Bike Share” — Bandung, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bandung-boseh-bikeshare/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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