# On-demand transportation in China

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2018-06-04

bicycles, china, china-bike, china-growth, global-share, internet-trends-2018, kleiner-perkins, mary-meeker, mobility, on-demand-bicycle, on-demand-transportation, tech, transport, transportation, uncategorized, urban, urban-mobility, venture-capital

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Last week, Mary Meeker of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers published her annual internet trends report. You can find it [here](https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140), if for whatever reason it is not showing up below. Also, [here is last year’s Internet Trends 2017 presentation](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/161526091773/internet-trends-2017) in case you’re curious.

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[**Internet Trends Report 2018**](//www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140) from [**Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers**](https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins)

One slide that stood out for me is the one below. It shows the global demand for transportation trips booked through smartphone apps. The numbers include on-demand taxis, private for-hire vehicles, as well as on-demand motorbikes and bicycles.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/48a18eb4f1667778adb8b9fb5aca705e.png)

China, through a combination of cars and bicycles, makes up 68% of the global share. It looks to be over 5 billion completed trips in Q1 2018. A staggering number. At the same time, look at how much of that is a result of growth in the number of _bicycle_ trips.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/on-demand-transportation-in-china)*