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| 1991 || || System launch || A second generation of bike-sharing program launches in {{w|Farsø}} and {{w|Grenå}}, Denmark.<ref name="Bike-sharing">{{cite web |title=Bike-sharing: History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future |url=https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1196&context=jpt |website=scholarcommons.usf.edu |accessdate=2 July 2019}}</ref> These bikes can be picked up and returned at specific locations (racks) with a coin deposit (like super market trolleys). These second generation bikes would still experience theft due to the anonymity of the users, though their advantage remains in their simplicity and low cost. The system is still in use in Denmark and other (Scandinavian) countries.<ref name="Three generations bike sharing">{{cite web |title=Three generations bike sharing |url=http://www.bikesharing.eu/global-solutions/three-generations |website=bikesharing.eu |accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Denmark}}
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| 1995 || || System launch || Having taken 30 years for another major city to attempt a large-scale public bike program, Bycyklen, or City Bikes, launches in {{w|Copenhagen}} as the first large-scale second generation bike-sharing program, with many improvements over the previous generation.<ref name="Bike-sharing"/> This system allows users to access sturdy, shared bicycles at specific locations throughout the city via a coin-operated system. Despite clear improvements over Amsterdam’s White Bikes, thefts and vandalism still plague the program, in addition to problems in funding. The system eventually flourish, featuring fixed docks, where riders deposit money to unlock the bikes. Riders would then get their deposit back after returning the bike to a dock.<ref name="A brief history of bike sharing"/><ref name="THE BIKE-SHARE BOOM"/> || {{w|Denmark}} ({{w|CopenhaguenCopenhagen}})
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| 1996 || || System launch || Bikeaboutin launches at {{w|Portsmouth University}} in {{w|England}} as the third generation of bike-sharing programs, where students can use a magneticstripe magnetic stripe card to rent a bike.<ref name="Bike-sharing"/> It is the first to come up with a solution to the theft problem. The magnetic-stripe card to borrow a bike, allows it to be tracked when it isn't returned.<ref name="THE BIKE-SHARE BOOM"/> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1996 || || Organization || {{w|8D Technologies}} is founded in {{w|Canada}}. It develops {{w|bicycle-sharing system}}s and [[w:Parking meter#Fully electrical|automated parking management systems]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.8d.com/about/ |title=About | 8D Technologies |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=8D |access-date=4 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Canada}}
| 2013 || June || System launch || Velobike is launched in {{w|Moscow}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Russian cyclists bringing bike culture to Moscow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/russian-cyclists-worlds-worst-traffic-bike-culture-moscow |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=1 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Russia}}
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| 2013 || July || Statistics || As of date, the systems with the higher market penetration are {{w|Vélib'}} in {{w|Paris}} with 1 buke bike per 97 inhabitants, {{w|Vélo'v}} in {{w|Lyon}} with 1 bike per 121 residents, and {{w|Hangzou}} in China with 1 per 145.<ref name="rep.bntu.by"/> ||
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| 2013 || || System launch || Rekola launches in {{w|Prague}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rekola |url=http://www.seen2.com/learn?s=Rekola |website=seen2.com |accessdate=2 July 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Czechia}}
