From door to door with shared transport

In addition to public transport (OV), you can use transport sharing services to reach your destination. Is the bus, tram or metro stop still too far from your destination? If not, you can opt for transport sharing and finish your trip on bicycle or electric scooter rental.

What is transport sharing?

Transport sharing is the use of a vehicle that is available to multiple people. You just use it and pay for it when you need to.

Think of bicycles or scooters. You can find these all over the city. They are a useful way to quickly get where you are going. And you can arrange all of it with an app on your mobile.

Not in the mood for the extra 15-minute walk from the stop to your house? Just rent a bike for the last stretch.

Donkey republic shared bikes

How do I recognise transport sharing services on the street?

There are various providers such as Felyx, OV bikes from NS, Check and Donkey. You can recognised shared vehicles by their colour and logo.

A Felyx scooter is dark green with the name Felyx in white. The OV bicycles from NS are yellow and blue with the NS logo. Check scooters are white and purple. Donkey is orange with the blue GVB sign attached to the mudguard.

How do I use transport sharing?

Plan your OV journey with transport sharing

Follow these steps for incorporating shared vehicles into your journey:

  1. Open the journey planner in the GVB app

  2. Enter your destination under Travel Advice

  3. Enter your journey’s start and end locations under Start and Finish. You can choose an e-bike, a regular bike, scooter etc.

  4. Select the shared vehicle you want and then Save

Tips

  • Are you choosing to rent an Electric Bicycle or Electric Scooter? This is done through a different provider. You will be shown nearby rental locations.

  • For the options Walk, Bicycle, E-Bike or Scooter, we assume that you are using your own vehicle.

Reserve or rent a shared vehicle for your journey
The GVB app will show you nearby rental locations and available shared vehicles. The actual reservation andrental of a bicycle or scooter is done by the transport sharing provider. You can usually do this with a mobile app. Want to rent a Donkey bicycle? You need the Donkey app to do that.

Tips

In order to use transport sharing, you will usually need a mobile phone with the provider’s app, internet access and Bluetooth. For a OV bicycle, you have a free OV bicycle subscription on your personal OV-chipkaart (public transport chip card).