What do you have here.

This section of this "Do-it-Yourself" toolkit is divided into two parts as you will see from the menu. First here you have a growing set of references (the site being consistently worked with and updated as new materials come in) which will help you understand the state of play with cit bike projects by whatever name all over the world. Here briefly are a few words of background on each to get you going in your research:

As you will see there is a fast-expanding wealth of information out there, and mastering this is of course a step in the process of having your strategy. But only a step.

The sites and references in brief:

1. World wide news
   This is a pretty much "must have" if you want to keep up with the fast moving state of play in the field. We check it out daily or almost, and then follow up. There will be a handful of postings every day.

2. Google on city bikes
   This is a blunter tool, but important especially a you begin to dig into our topic.

3. Bike-sharing.blogspot.com<
   Bike-sharing Blog provides information on the emerging public transportation mode of bike-sharing. The Blog is provided by MetroBike LLC, and by Paul DeMaio. It's a must visit site if you want to follow the field.

4. P. DeMaio World map
   Strong visual clues showing 2nd (low-tech) and 3rd (high-tech) generation bike-sharing programs world wide.

5. On-line inventory 1

6. On-line inventory 2

7. Wikipedia on Public Bikes

8. Bike/transit integration

9. Wikipedia on Cyclocity

10. Technorati on City Bikes

11. NICHES EU project

12. Comparaison des Systèmes Automatisés
    

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