Tembici’s inclusive & adaptive shared bikes

Tembici's inclusive & adaptive shared bikes

The Tembici bicycle-sharing system offers a fleet of mechanical bicycles and e-bikes, including cargo bikes and hand bikes that attach to wheelchairs, with these bikes available at sharing stations throughout the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

Service Provided

Tembici’s fleet in Bogotá consists of 1500 mechanical bikes, 1500 electric bikes, 150 handbikes, 150 cargo bikes, and approx. 300 sharing stations. It also works with QR code unlocking, a fast registration and application procedure, as well as a bike repair shop. The service is available 24/7 and for multiple days, if the user decides to pay extra for the additional time.

Intended Users

The intended user of Tembici is those people who do not own a car and want to find more efficient modes of moving in the city than the public transportation. It is also thought for those with a car but wish to change to a more sustainable transportation mode, as well as parents with children that need to transport heavier things through the use of the cargo bikes. Finally, for those people with physical limitations that, with the special hand bikes, which can easily attach to wheelchairs, can gain greater accessibility to city life.

Benefits

The bikes provided by Tembici are highly accessible, allowing people with wheelchairs to easily ride them by attaching their chairs to the special bike. The service offers 150 cargo bikes for users transporting children, groceries, furniture, or anything up to 100 kilograms in weight. The price to access the bikes are affordable and flexible, allowing users to lease the bikes for up to one week if they desire to do so.

Service Details

To use the Tembici bike sharing service it is necessary to download the app, create an account or log in, choose a plan and unlock the bike with a QR code. Users must download the Tembici app to use the system, which operates from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The stations in Bogotá can be found between 127th and 6th streets and between Carrera Séptima, Autopista Norte, NQS and Carrera 10. These are major road arteries in and around the city center, easily accessible to most of the urban population.

Financial Details

Tembici offers a daily, weekly, and single trip payment options (prices in colombian pesos). The single trip option costs, $1.890/ride + $300 per extra minute. The daily option offers unlimited rides for 24 hours and if more was travelled, then +$7.500 per extra hour must be paid. Finally, the weekly option allows users to ride unlimited for a whole week for a price of $29.900. If the weekly time has been surpassed, users must pay $7.500 per hour after returning agreement.

Carlos Rizzo, Head of Software Engineering in Tembici

"For more than 12 years, Tembici has been democratizing easy access to transportation, promoting sustainability, and improving life in urban areas through bicycle sharing programs. The company got its start in Brazil as a university project. When I joined as a software engineering specialist in 2019, the company was just expanding to Chile and Argentina. In 2020, we began introducing e-bikes. And in 2022, we debuted our service in Colombia."

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About the Service Providers

Originally from Brazil and founded in 2012, the company has expanded their operations to Chile, Argentina and in 2022 to Colombia, making it the largest bike-sharing system in Latin America. Tembici is the region´s leading micro-mobility technology company, creating solutions to inspire a revolution in urban space. They use technology and involve the public, private and civil society partners to make the coexistence of people and cities more efficient, smarter and more pleasant.

Tembici is Latin America’s leading micromobility company, offering a fleet of more than 22,000 bicycles and e-bikes, including cargo bikes and hundreds of hand bikes that attach to wheelchairs. The mobile apps that let riders book their bikes have been downloaded more than 1,900 million times. Tembici operates many solar-powered stations for the bikes in the four countries they´re operating.

Tembici uses BigQuery and its artificial intelligence and machine learning features to identify patterns in bike usage by location and reposition bikes according to demand. Their continuous improvement algorithm helps them analyze large volumes of traffic data and reallocate bikes depending on the day of the week and time of day.

Tembici´s commitment to sustainability aligns with Google Cloud´s values, which is why Google Cloud is a strategic partner for the company as they expand their bike sharing programs and make a positive global impact with their technology.