Ttareungyi Public Bike-Share

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Modeled on Paris's Vélib, Seoul piloted the unmanned Ttareungyi bike-share with about 400 bikes in late 2014 before its full citywide launch in October 2015. It now runs roughly 45,000 bikes across some 2,800 self-service docking stations, with an app tracking each rider's distance, duration, and calories burned. The city reports over 250 million cumulative rides and 5.06 million users as of September 2025.

Live 📅 since 2015
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
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Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ Seoul Metropolitan Government (official)Program description: unmanned rental system, station siting, app usage tracking.
↗ Seoul Metropolitan Government (official, current stats)Nov 2025: ~45,000 bikes, ~2,800 stations, 250M cumulative rides, 5.06M cumulative users, new 3-hour pass.
↗ Asian Development Bank / Development Asia (independent)Independent case study on program rationale, fleet/station scale, growth trajectory.
↗ Wikipedia: Ddareungi2014 pilot and October 2015 official launch timeline; notes a pre-existing 2000-era rental scheme.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Ttareungyi Public Bike-Share” — Seoul, South Korea. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/seoul-ttareungyi-bikeshare/ (last verified 2026-07-21). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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