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Jelbi — BVG's Integrated Mobility App

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Berlin transit operator BVG launched Jelbi in 2019, built on Trafi's platform, bundling public transport with shared bikes, e-scooters, mopeds, car-share, ride-hailing and taxis into one app for routing, booking and payment. Physical "Jelbi stations" and smaller "Jelbi points" cluster these shared vehicles at hubs across the city; BVG reports roughly 350 such locations by 2025 and calls it Europe's largest mobility-station network. It remains live and growing.

Live 📅 since 2019
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?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 →
Run byBVG
Scale🏙️ City-wide
🚲 MobilityShared mobilityPublic transportSmart ticketing

Sources

↗ Trafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International)Published 21 February 2019Independent trade press confirming 2019 launch, BVG+Trafi, and initial modes.
↗ Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)Published 30 July 2025Operator primary source: modes, station count, vehicles, downloads (self-reported).
↗ Jelbi stations & points (official)Describes the physical hubs, distinction between stations (with car-share) and points, and the 'largest network' framing.
↗ BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)Published 17 September 2024 · updated 6 November 2024Provider account: growth from 5 to ~10-13 services, 230+ hubs, ~70,000 vehicles, ~885k downloads.

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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2019. 3 of 4 sources carry a publication date, from 21 February 2019 to 30 July 2025.

When the sources were published

  1. ITS International · pressTrafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International)
  2. Trafi · vendorBVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi) · updated 6 November 2024
  3. Jelbi (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, BVG) · operatorJelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)

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Claim 1 clm-f28f4a248ce81e0f quantitative
Berlin transit operator BVG launched Jelbi in 2019
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The BVG/Jelbi whitepaper's own timeline states the Jelbi alliance was presented in February 2019, the first Jelbi station opened in April 2019, and the app itself launched in June 2019: "Im Februar 2019 wurde das Jelbi-Bündnis vorgestellt, im April die erste Jelbi-Station eröffnet und im Juni 2019 die Jelbi-App gelauncht." ITS International's 21 February 2019 article independently confirms BVG ("public transport company Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)") as the operator partnering with Trafi.
Caveat
The ITS International piece was published on 21 Feb 2019 and describes the launch as still forthcoming ("will be available in the summer"), so the explicit year comes from the whitepaper's own timeline, not from ITS's body text. The whitepaper is a PowerPoint-to-PDF export; its embedded text layer may not respond cleanly to a direct on-page search — the passage sits on the slide titled "Erste Mobilitätsstation Berlins 2019 am U Prinzenstraße / Wo alles seinen Anfang nahm."

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)
  2. Trafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International)
Claim 2 clm-153991356747c6f7 descriptive
built on Trafi's platform
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What the mapping says
ITS International: "Technology firm Trafi has partnered with public transport company Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) to launch a mobility app." Trafi's own case study calls the result "an all-in-one MaaS app, powered by Trafi."
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Trafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International)
  2. BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)
Claim 3 clm-db1d697b1922ca99 descriptive
bundling public transport with shared bikes, e-scooters, mopeds, car-share, ride-hailing and taxis into one app
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
ITS International (2019): Jelbi lets users "access the city's entire public transportation system including scooters, bikes, ride-hailing and car-sharing as well as taxis." Trafi's case study adds the app "started with 5 Mobility Service Providers (MSPs) and has grown to include 10, covering various transport types such as public transport, ridesharing, car sharing, bike sharing, and scooter sharing." The official Jelbi stations page captions a hub photo "E-scooter and e-mopeds." The BVG whitepaper notes Berlin's own shared fleet, which Jelbi gives access to, includes "über 60.000 Mieträdern, Scootern, Mopeds, Lastenrädern und Carsharing-Autos" (over 60,000 rental bikes, scooters, mopeds, cargo bikes and car-sharing cars) alongside "ÖPNV und Taxen."
Caveat
No single cited source lists all seven modes together. Mopeds are confirmed only indirectly — a hub-photo caption and a whitepaper passage about Berlin's citywide shared-vehicle fleet, not a sentence naming Jelbi's own integrated modes. Terminology also varies: ITS International uses "ride-hailing", while Trafi's own case study calls the equivalent category "ridesharing".

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Trafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International)
  2. Jelbi stations & points (official)
  3. Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)
  4. BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)
Claim 4 clm-54d6ae167ad53a63 descriptive
for routing, booking and payment
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Trafi's case study: "Jelbi offers a fully integrated experience, allowing users to plan, book, and pay for trips without switching between different apps," with listed features including "Multi-modal journey planning" and "Intermodal routing."
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)
Claim 5 clm-fb762d9fc315babc descriptive
Physical "Jelbi stations" and smaller "Jelbi points" cluster these shared vehicles at hubs across the city
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The official Jelbi stations page distinguishes "Jelbi stations" ("Here you can rent, return and charge vehicles") from "Jelbi points" ("small hubs for all vehicles with just two wheels"). Trafi's account: "We distinguish between Jelbi stations and Jelbi points. While Jelbi points only offer two-wheeled options like bike and scooter sharing, Jelbi stations also provide car sharing."
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jelbi stations & points (official)
  2. BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)
Claim 6 clm-f34b15bc22fc48dc quantitative
BVG reports roughly 350 such locations by 2025
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The BVG/Jelbi whitepaper (dated 30 July 2025, covering "Jelbi-Standorte 2019–2025"): "Mit fast 60.000 buchbaren Fahrzeugen (Sharing, ÖPNV und Taxen), 11 Mobilitätsangeboten und 1,1 Million Downloads ist Jelbi die größte Mobilitätsplattform im ÖPNV und mit bald 350 Standorten das größte Netz an Mobilitätsstationen Europas." ("...and, with soon 350 locations, the largest network of mobility stations in Europe.")
Caveat
The whitepaper says "bald 350" (soon [reaching] 350) — the count had not yet reached 350 at the time of the July 2025 report, only approaching it. The entry's "roughly 350 ... by 2025" turns a forward-looking figure into a stated total.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)
Claim 7 clm-2271cbc48f7d797a descriptive
calls it Europe's largest mobility-station network
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The same whitepaper passage explicitly calls Jelbi "das größte Netz an Mobilitätsstationen Europas" (the largest network of mobility stations in Europe); the identical phrase also appears as a standalone section heading in the document ("Das größte Netz an Mobilitätsstationen Europas").
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025)
Claim 8 clm-71fd4a9da90f8202 descriptive
It remains live and growing
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The official Jelbi stations page states "Jelbi is growing! You'll find our stations not only in the city center but also in the outer districts." Trafi's account similarly notes "There are over 230 mobility hubs all across Berlin - and the number will continue to grow."
Caveat
Both cited passages are undated on their face, and the newest of the four sources (the BVG whitepaper) is from July 2025, about a year before this entry's 25 July 2026 verification date. "Remains live" rests on these being current, reachable statements of an ongoing trend rather than on a source dated to 2026.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Jelbi stations & points (official)
  2. BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi)
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Actor types
utility
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4 source dossiers

Trafi & BVG launch integrated mobility app (ITS International) itsinternational.com · 3 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · itsinternational.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2019-02-21
Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-07-25
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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Independent trade press confirming 2019 launch, BVG+Trafi, and initial modes.

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Claims linked
Jelbi — Six Years of Jelbi, interim results (BVG/Jelbi whitepaper, 2025) jelbi.de · 4 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · jelbi.de
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
2025-07-30
Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-07-25
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

Operator primary source: modes, station count, vehicles, downloads (self-reported).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Jelbi stations & points (official) jelbi.de · 3 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · jelbi.de
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-07-25
Dossier created
2026-08-22
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No local capture recorded
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Open the recorded source note

Describes the physical hubs, distinction between stations (with car-share) and points, and the 'largest network' framing.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
BVG Jelbi: 5 years of MaaS in Berlin (Trafi) trafi.com · 5 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-f18c2247d9e4eaa5
Publisher
Name not classified · trafi.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-09-17
Updated
2024-11-06
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-25
Dossier created
2026-08-22
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

Provider account: growth from 5 to ~10-13 services, 230+ hubs, ~70,000 vehicles, ~885k downloads.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Jelbi — BVG's Integrated Mobility App” — Berlin, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/berlin-jelbi-maas/ (last verified 2026-07-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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