About MetroBike, LLC

In 1995, as an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, Paul DeMaio, MetroBike’s founder, came across information about Copenhagen, Denmark’s new “Bycyklen”, or City Bikes, bike-sharing program on the Web. Fascinated with the eco-friendliness of this egalitarian concept, DeMaio spent the following semester abroad researching the City Bike program and learning the design concepts and philosophies of the bike’s co-designer and the City Bike Foundation of Copenhagen.

Since Copenhagen, DeMaio has published a variety of papers on bike-sharing, including the groundbreaking work, Will Smart Bikes Succeed as Public Transportation in the United States? in 2004, which is some of the earliest research on the topic. Research was helpful in disseminating the concept to a greater audience, but there was much more to be done for the idea to be tangible. That’s when DeMaio saw the need to create a company that would assist organizations in implementing bike-sharing programs. He founded MetroBike, LLC in 2005 to develop a market for bike-sharing and assist with its rapid growth in North America and around the world.

Paul DeMaio
Founder, MetroBike LLC

Today, MetroBike’s clients are governments, non-profits, for-profits, and universities and DeMaio also writes The Bike-sharing Blog, an international news resource about the field. DeMaio has a Master of Transportation Policy, Operations, & Logistics from George Mason University School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of City Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture. As an international expert on bike-sharing, he has been quoted by TIME, The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.