ZYP

Zyp bicycle

Zyp is a bike share program operating in Birmingham. The program was created REV Birmingham in partnership with the City of Birmingham, the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Program sponsors include Regions Bank, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and the Alabama Power Foundation. REV's Lindsey West is the program manager.

Zyp was launched in September 2015 with 400 bright green bicycles distributed to 40 stations. 100 of the bicyles include electrically-assisted pedaling. Birmingham's is the first bike share program in the United States to offer electrically-assisted bicycles. The bicycles, charging kiosks were designed by Michael Dallaire and provided, along with GPS-enabled management software, by Bewegen of Quebec, Ontario. The bicycles themselves were manufactured by Procycle.

References

• Davis, Bryan (July 20, 2015) "'Zyp' to be official brand of REV's BikeShare program." Birmingham Business Journal

External links

• Zyp website