How Park 011 built a free bike parking network across Belgrade

Park 011 is Bikeep's partner in Serbia. It opened its first station in 2021 at Kalemegdan, Belgrade's fortress park, and has since grown it into a network of about 16 free bike and e-scooter parking and charging stations. Most are in Belgrade, and the network reaches the coast too, with a station run for Kotor Municipality in Montenegro.

A network riders actually use

Together the stations have logged about 20,900 parkings by around 3,200 riders since 2021. Shopping centres are the busiest.

• Ušće Shopping Center. About 6,800 parkings.
• Delta City. About 3,400.
• BC Ušće Towers. About 2,600.
• TC Novi Merkator and TC Immo Centar. About 1,700 each.

The network also covers TC Beo, BC Navigator, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Roda Decathlon and the Blok 44 and Kalenić markets.

Paid for by the screens

Each station has a digital advertising screen, and the advertising pays for the network, so riders park and charge for free. In August 2024 mobile operator A1 Srbija became the network's sponsor. A1 helped bring free parking and charging to 12 key locations, 10 of them charging both e-bikes and e-scooters and 2 for e-scooters only, and added free A1 Wi-Fi for riders waiting for their battery to charge. How the model works is explained in How advertising funds free bike parking.

How it works

• Bikes and e-scooters. Docks hold regular bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters.
• Free charging. Riders charge while they are parked.
• App. The Bikeep app shows every station and opens the docks in a few steps.
• Free. Parking and charging cost nothing.

Green News covered the A1 stations in Serbian. More on bike parking for cities.