MICROMOBILITY


THE BIG SHIFT


Shared transport operators have had to rapidly shift their focus in the past year. Tier’s regional general manager for Northern Europe, Fred Jones, explains


What are the latest developments for Tier? It has been an exciting time at Tier over the last few months! We recently acquired Nextbike (now called Nextbike by Tier) which operates docked bike schemes globally, and means, for example, we run schemes in Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.


In April, we launched our first fully integrated


Nextbike by Tier and Tier system in Limerick, with our unique multi-modal offering making the difference in a competitive tender process. Users are able to pick Tier dockless e-bikes or Nextbike by Tier docked push bikes through a single app. We also have an integrated system in Navan which incorporates e-cargo bikes as well.


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The benefit of this is we are able to offer micromobility at a range of price points and we can cover a broader range of journey times, all of which helps us encourage people to leave their cars at home, especially for shorter local journeys. On the technology perspective, we are in the process of retrofitting a new computer module, called ‘Parrot’ to our existing e-scooter fleet across the UK. The new module is capable of pavement and tandem riding detection, helping us tackle anti-social riding behaviour. It is the first time in the industry these new safety features have gone from small scale pilots to be being able to be provided on an entire fleet in an economically sustainable way and by


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