Urban transportation app Citymapper quietly rolled out an app update that lets you find many alternative mobility services in the app.
You can now find the nearest dockless bike or electric scooter around you (not the Bird and Lime kind, the motorcycle kind).The integrations are already live in many cities.
The company didnt add new buttons for each service because it was already getting quite crowded with buses, subways and ride-sharing services.If you tap the bike button, you get a map view of the streets around you.
In addition to traditional bike-sharing services, youll now find colored dots representing both Ofo and Mobike .
Below the map, you get a list of the closest bikes.
TechCrunchs Ingrid Lunden previously reported that the Mobike integration was coming soon.But Citymapper also added a new scooter button in multiple cities.
As the name suggests, this button helps you locate the closest free-floating scooter that you can unlock with your phone.In Paris, youll find Coup and Cityscoot scooters.
In Berlin, youll find Coup scooters.
In Madrid and Barcelona, youll find Muving, ioscoot, eCooltra and Yugo scooters You get the idea.
Chances are all your local options will be there.Interestingly, electric scooters from Bird and Lime arent in there just yet.
It might be what everybody is talking about, but youll only see Jump and Ford bikes in San Francisco.For now, all you can do is locate the nearest bike or scooter.
You still have to open each individual app to scan the QR code and unlock those vehicles.But this is an interesting approach.
Citymapper doesnt operate any transportation service.
It can be an agnostic player and provide a comprehensive view of whats around you without any conflict of interest.
It doesnt have to recreate a transportation hub like Lyft or Uber as those two companies recently acquired Motivate and Jump to provide bike-sharing services.And if youre visiting a city for the first time, you can open the app to find out how youll be able to navigate that new city.