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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I also imagine a scenario where, like "bus tracker" you can use "bike tracker" on your smartphone to determine how many available bikes there are at a given station.
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This already exists in just about every city with a large bikesharing system. Most of them make the data public, so anyone who knows how to write apps can produce one.
Here's a website with real-time availability for dozens of cities, including the major US systems and many of the minor ones. It even shows usage for Chicago's little existing network.