
When city meets bike: how people in Oslo use the shared bike service Bysykkel
As a small foreign creature walking on the streets of Oslo, I get mixed feelings. Car drivers are usually friendlier to me than their peers elsewhere. They do not drive, like in some cities, as if they are practicing for the next Formula 1 race and they forgive my accidental and unintentional traffic rules transgressions with a smile. On the other hand, bicycles in Oslo move around in a way very different from what I have experienced in cities like Shanghai, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. As a statistician, without data, I cannot really say what that difference is. Knowing it is difficult to get data on the use of private bikes, I took a look at the city’s shared bikes.