PBSC Urban Solutions
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| Privately held | |
| Industry | Bicycle-sharing systems |
| Founded | 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Founder | Société en commandite Stationnement de Montréal (SCSM) |
| Headquarters | Longueuil, Canada |
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Worldwide |
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Luc Sabbatini (CEO) |
| Brands | BIXI |
| Website | pbsc |
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PBSC Urban Solutions (originally the non-profit Public Bike System Company or Société de Vélo en Libre-Service) is a corporation based in Longueuil, Quebec that manufactures and supplies bicycle-sharing systems, equipment, parts, and software to cities in Canada, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom and Australia. The company has supplied close to 47,000 bikes and 3,800 stations to 15 cities and two university campuses.
Public Bike System Company (PBSC) was initially created by the City of Montreal to supply and operate its public bike share system under the brand BIXI (later becoming BIXI Montréal), which was introduced in May 2009 with 3,000 bicycles and 300 stations. The name BIXI is a portmanteau of BIcycle and taXI. In 2010, PBSC exported the BIXI brand of bike share systems to Minneapolis,London,Washington D.C and Melbourne. The company later provided systems to Boston and Toronto in 2011, Chattanooga in 2012, New York City, the Stony Brook University,Aspen,San Francisco,Chicago and Columbus in 2013.
At the end of 2013, PBSC started having financial problems that lead to the company filing for bankruptcy in early 2014. Bruno Rodi purchased the international division in April 2014 and renamed the company PBSC Urban Solutions. (Montreal's on-the-ground BIXI bike-share operations were not included in the sale and were reorganized under the BIXI Montréal name.) He then sold the majority share to Luc Sabbatini in January 2015, who became CEO. Since then, PBSC Urban Solutions has extended its activity in Mexico with the Huizi system in Toluca, has signed a contract in Honolulu and has extended its activities in Chicago,Guadalajara and Toronto.
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