Peter Dizikes | February 15, 2023 | MIT News Office

Amsterdam is a bike-friendly city but it is also a bike-thief-friendly city, as “tens of thousands of bikes per year are stolen — a substantial chunk of the estimated 850,000 or so that Amsterdam residents own.” A new study tries to answer the question “where do all the stolen bikes go?”

“Now an MIT experiment, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, has found answers by equipping a fleet of Amsterdam bicycles with mobile trackers and following their whereabouts over time. It turns out that, at least in Amsterdam, the vast majority of stolen bikes remain in the local area.”

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