Brilliant bike share scheme transforms your commute | Hangzhou Bicycle Service, Ashden Award
Last year China suffered its worst air pollution ever with more than 70 cities reaching dangerous levels. The city of Hangzhou in the northwest Zhejiang province is taking affirmative action to protect the health of its citizens by encouraging them to use its public bicycle hire service. Since the Hangzhou Bicycle Service started up in May 2008, thousands of bicycles have been rented for free more than 700 million times thanks to an innovative financial model.
Funded by the government, the project makes a profit – by selling the advertising rights on over 3000 bicycle sites and renting out the service kiosks – which is then used to cover staff salaries and maintain the service. Hangzhou Bicycle Service has gone on to advise over 200 other cities in China to help spread the concept of public bicycles.
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Bike Sharing in China
Bike sharing may be the fastest growing business in China. Let's explore it in detail in Hangzhou, China.
What is BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM? What does BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM mean?
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What is BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM? What does BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM mean? BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM meaning - BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM definition - BICYCLE SHARING SYSTEM explanation.
Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under license.
A bicycle-sharing system, public bicycle system, or bike-share scheme, is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals on a very short term basis. Bike share schemes allow people to borrow a bike from point A and return it at point B. Many bike-share systems offer subscriptions that make the first 30–45 minutes of use either free or very inexpensive, encouraging use as transportation. This allows each bike to serve several users per day. In most bike-share cities, casual riding over several hours or days is better served by bicycle rental than by bike-share. For many systems, smartphone mapping apps show nearby stations with available bikes and open docks.
Bike-share began in Europe in 1965 and a viable format emerged in the mid-2000s thanks to the introduction of information technology. As of June 2014, public bikesharing systems were available in 50 countries on five continents, including 712 cities, operating approximately 806,200 bicycles at 37,500 stations. As of May 2011, the Wuhan and Hangzhou Public Bicycle bike-share systems in China were the largest in the world, with around 90,000 and 60,000 bicycles respectively. The Vélib' in Paris bicycle stations, is the largest outside of China. The countries with the most systems are Spain (132), Italy (104), and China (79). As of July 2013, the systems with the higher market penetration are both operating in France, the Parisian Velib' with 1 bike per 97 inhabitants and Vélo'v in Lyon with one bike per 121 residents.
Bicycle-sharing systems can be divided into two general categories: Community Bike programmes organised mostly by local community groups or non-profit organisations; and Smart Bike programmes implemented by government agencies, sometimes in a public–private partnership. The central concept of these systems is to provide free or affordable access to bicycles for short-distance trips in an urban area as an alternative to motorised public transport or private vehicles, thereby reducing traffic congestion, noise, and air pollution. Bicycle-sharing systems have also been cited as a way to solve the last mile problem and connect users to public transit networks.
The reasons people use bike-share vary considerably. Some who would otherwise use their own bicycle have concerns about theft or vandalism, parking or storage, and maintenance requirements. However, with limits on the number of places where bicycles can be rented or returned, the service resembles public transit, and has therefore been criticised as less convenient than a privately owned bicycle used door-to-door. Government-run bicycle-sharing programmes can also prove costly to the public unless subsidised by commercial interests, typically in the form of advertising on stations or the bicycles themselves.
Hangzhou Bike Rental
The beautiful and historic city of Hangzhou has another beautiful and historic achievement... an excellent bike rental system! It's a 300 Yuan deposit for a bike card key and it ends of costing about 30 Yuan per day depending on the time used.
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The Vigilantes of China’s Bike Sharing Economy
Shared-bike enthusiasts have made a game of scouring the city streets to find and report improperly parked bicycles.
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78,000 bikes on offer in E. China’s Hangzhou
China is home to 16 of the biggest bike sharing programs in the world, with the city of Hangzhou offering 78-thousand bikes for locals and tourists alike to use.
BIKE Sharing in China!
If only we had a similar system all around the US. What a great option for the locals in Zhenjiang! I am jealous!
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China's Cities Fight Back Against Shared Bikes
After complaints from the public about the poor parking etiquette of China's shared-bike riders, cities across China take action to remove offending vehicles
Guangzhou Rent-A-Bike Epidemic
China had a really good idea to provide rental bikes to its residents. The bikes were cheap to manufacture and cost the consumer very little to rent (15 cents USD per hour). However, due to a lack of copyright laws in China a flurry of copycats rose up and flooded the market (more than 30 different brands exist now). This video gives you but a taste of the ensuing madness that has ocurred.
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Mountains of Abandoned Bikes in China
Fighting to solve China's air pollution problem, bike-sharing companies such as Ofo, Mobike, and Quick-to begun their journey to free city streets of greenhouse gas spewing motor-vehicles by introducing bike sharing, a system that allows users to rent bicycles for travel through a mobile app. However, plagued with the issues of excess and clutter along city streets and pathways, the government and the aforementioned bike sharing companies decided that the best course of action was to send large swaths of bikes to allocated dumps, creating what seems to resemble zombie bike mountains. Perhaps not the best solution?
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World's Longest Cycling SkyWay in China
China has completed work on its first cycling skyway. Surprisingly, it also happens to be the world's longest bridge.
The Copenhagen-based architects designed the Xiamen Bicycle Skyway to cover five major residential areas and three business centres in Xiamen – a city in China's Fujian province.
The 7.6-kilometer long skyway runs 5 meters above the road and just below a bus rapid transit line in downtown Xiamen.
Featuring a green floor, the skyway is 4.8 metres wide to allow several bicycles to travel side-by-side.
Eleven entry and exit points, including a looped one, provide commuters with access to bus and BRT stations, overpasses, shopping malls and other public buildings.
It's targeted at decreasing traffic congestion and promoting green forms of transportation in the city.
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Drone footage shows thousands of bicycles abandoned in China as bike sharing reaches saturation
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Bike sharing in China may have hit peak supply, as thousands of abandoned shared bikes piled up in Shanghai. The government has removed bikes from the streets and stored them at “bicycle graveyards”. French-born photographer Mathias Guillin filmed one of the sites with his drone.
'Bicycle Kingdom': China's Bike Sharing Programs May Have Hit Peak Supply In Major Cities | TIME
Over the last year or so, however, something remarkable has happened: the self-styled “Bicycle Kingdom” has risen from the scrapheap. China has been infected by a bike-sharing fever where brightly colored common-usage bikes are located and rented via smartphone apps. Around 60 firms have put 16-18 million bicycles onto Chinese streets. They are ridden for a time and then parked at the roadside for the next customer. No bike stands. No set docking station.
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'Bicycle Kingdom': China's Bike Sharing Programs May Have Hit Peak Supply In Major Cities | TIME
China's Bicycle Graveyards
China’s bicycle graveyards: Bike-sharing industry’s rapid expansion has resulted in huge piles of bikes abandoned near urban hubs