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Written By idontspam - 3 June, 2011

Bangalore Last Mile Transportation Infrastructure cycle infrastructure bike sharing NMT

 

Anyone who claims that bike-sharing is a European-style transportation innovation has clearly never set foot in Hangzhou, China. The 50,000-bike system in this southern China city of almost 7 million people (about 1.5 million people fewer than New York City) blows all other bike-shares off the map. As Bradley Schroeder of theInstitute for Transportation and Development Policy said, "I don't think there is anywhere you can stand in Hangzhou for more than a minute or two where you wouldn't have a Hangzhou Public Bike go past you."

Hangzhou's 2,050 bike-share stations are spaced less than a thousand feet from each other in the city center, and on an average day riders make 240,000 trips using the system. Its popularity and success have set a new standard for bike-sharing in Asia. And the city is far from finished. The Hangzhou Bicycle Company plans to expand the bike-share system to 175,000 bikes by 2020!

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level of "sharing"

silkboard - 5 June, 2011 - 11:00

Key numbers from the report

  • "2,050 bike-share stations"
  • "240,000" daily trips
  • "50,000-bike system"

So 5 trips on each cycle per day on average. 25 cycles at each bike-share-station. ~ 120 transactions at each bike-share station per day. All reasonable numbers.

 

Yay! CBD gets bike

idontspam - 24 June, 2011 - 02:52

Yay! CBD gets bike sharing

Alight from Metro, hop on to bicycle

Automated bicycle sharing system in Bangalore

Haseeb Arfath - 28 June, 2011 - 07:50

Hi Guys! I am a new entrant in here...to start of i am the co-founder-CMD of Kerberon Automations Pvt Ltd (http://www.kerberonautomations.com/) the company that is setting up the centralized bicycle sharing platform in the CBD area of our city. Got a call yesterday from Srinidhi (the admin/team lead of praja) asking me to get involved with this community...going through it I ve to thank him for introducing me to his very informative online community portal!....I would like all the members in here to let me know  of any suggestions they would like to see in this system that would be set up by july 30th and i promise we will consider them! To let you know more about our plans here's the TOI article 

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-24/bangalore/29698917_1_public-bicycle-stations-space

Now the updates since then!

  1. Closed a deal with a French bicycle company called Btwin (i am sure the cyclists here know about this very cool bicycle company) to supply unique custom made bicycles for ATCAG( tats what the platform would be called) and already the first lot is shipped from their manufacturing facility.
  2. Finalizing the locations with property owners...almost done there....
  3. Work is in full swing at our docking station manufacturing facility....
  4. Started an interaction with namma bengalurians by registering with praja.in :P 
  5. In talks with different ministries/departments of both central and state governments to take this to much much greater level and not just CBD and Bangalore to benefit the end users!

About the system:

  1. Still unclear about the fares!! (the poll up in praja must help!! :) )
  2. First 45 minutes of use will be free.
  3. The user needs to furnish Residential address proof, identity proof to get his smart card.
  4. Totally automated! ...like in any other European city but completely different in design that lets us get the system up and running within a few hours!

I request you to please put in those suggestions/wishes and queries and I promise to actively take forward the conversations :)

Haseeb, So how many stations

idontspam - 28 June, 2011 - 15:53

Haseeb, So how many stations are you planning to have? does the pickup & drop have to be at the same station? How do you balance the bike availability if not?

China showing the way

idontspam - 3 June, 2011 - 09:44

China showing the way, I wasnt surprised at all. They are doers. Atleast in NMT some baby steps are being taken here in Bengaluru hope it doesnt get stuck with the non-doers abound

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