Case Study: Bicycle Transit Systems achieves on-time Los Angeles launch and reliable backup connectivity with Hughes Network Systems

HughesNet for Business Helps Keep Wheels Turning at Bike Sharing Company

Bicycle Transit Systems, which runs BCycle bike‑share programs in cities including Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, faced a critical connectivity challenge when launching a 1,000‑bicycle facility in Los Angeles: the local ISP could not provision fiber in time, threatening on‑time launch and the real‑time tracking, station balancing, and data collection their operations require. They turned to Hughes Network Systems and its HughesNet for Business service to fill the gap.

Hughes Network Systems connected the Los Angeles facility to HughesNet in an afternoon, enabling Bicycle Transit Systems to launch Los Angeles Metro Bike Share on schedule with no network glitches. The rapid deployment and stable bandwidth supported transactions, station telemetry and real‑time tracking during ramp‑up, and HughesNet now serves as a reliable backup network, providing insurance against outages and keeping operations running smoothly.

Bicycle Transit Systems

Tim McGraw

Director of Information Technology