Short answers, pulled from the story.
The White Bicycle Plan started in the summer of 1965 when a group called Provo painted fifty bicycles white and placed them unlocked in Amsterdam. The program lasted less than one month because police confiscated all bikes within a day and most were stolen or found in canals.
The Bikeabout scheme was launched in October 1995 by the University of Portsmouth as part of its Green Transport Plan. This smart card fully automated system used magnetic striped cards to unlock bikes from storage racks but was discontinued by the university in 1998.
In 2012, the biggest public bike share programs were located in Wuhan with around 90,000 bikes and Hangzhou with around 60,000 bikes. These two Chinese cities led the world's fifteen largest public bike share programs at that time.
User rent fees may range from the equivalent of US$0.50 to 30.00 per day depending on the specific city and provider. Many systems offer subscriptions that make the first 30 or 45 minutes of use either free or very inexpensive for short intervals.
Starting the 30th of March 2021, passengers renting a YouBike from any station in the Taipei Keelung metropolitan area receive a discount of NT$5 when using their EasyCard to transfer within one hour. This integration aims to solve the last mile problem by improving transit accessibility.