O iFood Pedal was created in 2020 within the model of shared economy, which is a system in which people exchange or rent objects when they prefer to share things rather than own them — especially if they are going to use these items from time to time.
The program is in line with this premise, and allows delivery men and women to share electric or conventional bicycles. Instead of buying a bicycle, they can rent the vehicle to use for delivery, at affordable prices.
In addition to sharing bikes, delivery drivers iFood Pedal They have access to Support Points, which have rest areas, microwaves to heat food, water, bathrooms, coffee, wifi and power points to recharge their cell phones.
The idea of sharing bicycles in cities was born in the 1960s, in Amsterdam (Netherlands). The first successful program of its kindhi designed by Luud Schimmelpennink, in association with the Provo group, in 1965, when they painted bicycles white and made them available in the city for everyone to use.
Since then, systems and technologies have been evolving towards more sophisticated models. At the same pace, bike sharing on iFood Pedal follows a movement that is on the rise around the world: bike sharing. One study carried out in 2019 shows how these systems have grown rapidly at the end of recent years.
How many bikes are shared in the world?
According to the survey, the absolute majority (95%) of bike sharing systems in the world were launched from 2007 onwards. The idea became popular from that year onwards due to the launch of Vélib, in Paris (to this day one of the largest in the world, with 20 thousand bicycles available to the public).
“Recent technological transformations and innovations are drastically reshaping our cities and increasing their options for introducing and managing bike-sharing services as a new mode of transportation,” the study says.
In 2022, it is estimated that 8.9 million bicycles will be shared in different types of systems around the world, according to the Bike Sharing World Map. China is the country with the largest number of bike-sharing systems in the world (623), followed by the United States (174), Germany (107), Italy (104) and France (70), points out a study based on this data in 2021. Brazil is in thirteenth place in the ranking, with 13 systems.
