14-08-2019 22:24 via calgary.ctvnews.ca

Location data from shared e-scooters helps city map your movements

Calgarians have been enthusiastically jumping on thousands of shared bikes and scooters, but city officials are enthusiastic about another facet of the program: the location data of each and every trip. Lime and Bird are the two companies offering the dockless bikes and scooters in Calgary. Each scooter and bike has built-in GPS and uses 3G wireless technology to collect and transmit the location data of every single trip. “This data is really helpful because we can actually track the spee
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