NACTO’s 2020-2021 Shared Micromobility report examines data from cities across the U.S. and finds that shared micromobility systems, especially e-bikes, were a major contributor of the pandemic-era bicycle boom, providing crucial options for essential workers—and everyone else—to get around.

And while COVID-19 upended almost all established mobility patterns, shared micromobility ridership in the U.S. nearly rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, with 112 million trips. Over the course of 2021, people took 47 million trips on station- based bike share systems, 62.5 million trips on dockless e-scooters, and 2.5 million trips on dockless bikes in the U.S.—a sharp contrast with 2020, when people took only 65 million trips across all shared micromobility modes.

NACTO’s Shared Micromobility series analyzes data from across the U.S. and Canada, providing a yearly update on bike share, e-scooters, and other micromobility systems.