In the near future, you will start seeing city of Austin employees zipping around in these yellow Smart cars.

Austin City Council Thursday approved leasing 200 cars, at no cost, from Daimler.

The cars will be parked around the city for employees to use.

Daimler will pay for the car2go program during the six-month trial period.

After the trial program, the cars could become available for the general public to use.

Austin is the first city in the U.S. to take part in the program.

For city employees who would rather pedal their way around, they will have the option of using a bike as part of a bike sharing program.

Municipal workers can hop on one of 15 bikes that will be at one of six locations around town, for short distances.

The bikes are part of the Climate Protection Program funded by Austin Energy.

It’s also an effort to ease traffic congestion.