Bike and Scooter Share
This category includes both docked, non-docked and hybrid bike share systems and scooter share system, including electric and non electric devices.
Testing Starts for Tasmanian Scooter Trials
Hobart & Launceston, Tasmania e-Scooter share service trials were launched in Tasmania in mid-December, shortly after new laws were introduced in the State to allow scooters and other personal mobility devices (PMD) to be used on footpaths, shared paths, bike paths and some roads. Beam and Neuron have been chosen to operate the 12-month trial…
Frankston First Regional City to Trial Neuron e-Bikes
Frankston, VIC Frankston has become the first Victorian city, and Australia’s first non-metropolitan centre, to introduce a Neuron Mobility e-bike share scheme, launching a 12-month trial in January. Neuron is operating a fleet of 150 safety-first pedal-assisted e-bikes to hire across the 23 square kilometre City of Frankston district. Frankston City Mayor Nathan Conroy said…
2022 a Year of Change
Sydney, NSW 2022 promises to be the most significant year in Australia’s micromobility development. The legalisation of rental scooters has occurred in all States except NSW — with a NSW trial a possibility later in 2022. Privately-owned electric personal mobility devices were approved for public use in Tasmania and WA in late 2021, adding to…
Beam Brings Share Scooters to Three WA Cities
Bunbury, WA Global micromobility company Beam will bring shared e-mobility operations to WA this summer, with operations in three cities after law changes allowed the use of e-scooters in that State. The app-based service will be available in Esperance and Rockingham for the first time, as shared e-mobility trials, and will be returning to Bunbury. Beam…
ACT Scooter Scheme Set for Expansion
Canberra, ACT An ongoing e-scooter trial in the ACT could be expanded to all Canberra town centres by the end of 2022, the ACT Minister for Transport and City Services, Chris Steel, announced last month. Positive community feedback and an independent review of the existing share scheme pilots in central Canberra and Belconnen has prompted…
Beam Partners with UK Government for ACT Promotion
Central Canberra & Belconnen, ACT Micromobility advocates and operators have been particularly busy this month, lending their voices to the key messages emerging from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. While many are appealing for micromobility to be considered in the summit’s discussions and decision making for CO2 emission reductions, others are using the massive…
Four e-Scooter Share Trials Announced
E-scooter share schemes will be trialled in four Victorian local government areas from later this year, in a 12-month pilot coordinated by the State’s Department of Transport.
Three metropolitan councils – the cities of Yarra, Melbourne and Port Phillip – will be joined by the regional City of Ballarat for the trial announced last month.
Lime Eases Financial Squeeze for Low-Income Customers
Further Expansion for Adelaide e-Scooter Trials
E-scooter share schemes in the heart of Adelaide are poised for further expansion, with the City of Adelaide council resolving to extend a pilot in North Adelaide for another 12 months.
A meeting of the council last month voted to apply to the South Australian Minister for Transport and Infrastructure for an extension of the North Adelaide trial beyond its current deadline of 31 October.
