INNOVATIVE PUBLIC BIKE SYSTEM

Case study: Bixi, Montreal' Innovative Public Bike System

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DateInnovative Public Bike System

1. Examine and explore key operations issues/areas of the bike sharing system,

Key Operations Issues

On September 21, 2008, a new self service, rental public bike system was introduced in Montréal Canada, by the city's parking authority, The Société en commandite Stationnement de Montréal (Stationnement de Montréal), a public body, for improving the transportation system in the city. The new bike system was inspired by similar concepts operating in various European countries, particularly the Velib' program in Paris. As part of the test launch, only 40 bikes were introduced in four separate places in the city. In the last cited part of 2007, the town of Montréal, as part of its transport design called 'Reinventing Montréal', liked to set up a comprehensive public biking scheme alike to that in numerous European countries. This was an try to evolve public transit and advance the general mobility in the town, in holding with sustainable development principles.

 The scheme they came out with, called BIXI, comprised of mechanical stages, two wheeler docks, two wheelers, yield positions, and backroom software. Being made from recyclable aluminum, the two wheelers were lightweight and natural environment friendly. The whole scheme was solar driven and modular, and therefore required no enduring bolting to the sites. So the dock positions could be taken and moved from one location to another, as necessary. Another differentiating characteristic of the Bixi two wheeler scheme was that it was Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled. The whole program was modeled to be self maintaining mainly through client charges and members and through some support from business sponsorship - very distinct from the advocating revenues-based forms taken up by numerous of the living public two wheeler schemes round the world. (Hamilton, Graeme 2009)

Figure 1 Process flow chart

Most analysts treasured the conceive and functioning form of Bixi and said that it was very innovative. They said that if Bixi became a achievement, it would one of the first self maintaining public two wheeler schemes in the world. They sharp out some limitations of the scheme as well. While the scheme looked better arranged to face the large-scale dispute of such biking schemes - robbery and vandalism - if it would really be adept to command such misuses was yet to be ascertained.

After a thriving check launch in September 2008, Stationnement de Montréal was organising for the full-fledged launch of the scheme in May 2009. With the Bixi scheme drawing many of vigilance from the transport agencies of other towns that liked to set up alike schemes Stationnement de Montréal was dynamically contemplating commercializing the task by proposing it, in entire or in part, to other cities.

Areas Of The Bike Sharing System

The Bixi public two wheeler circulating incorporates the following:

The idea, actually very well admired in Europe, comprises of making two wheelers accessible for short-term rental at yield places strategically established all through the city. The purchaser takes a two wheeler from ...