Emerging cities of the XXI century must set sustainable criteria of growth and economic development. Cities are increasing their population, that’s why urban mobility will be decisive in the creation of environments that, in case of having set environmental criteria, will negatively impact in the health of citizens: noise, pollution, stress ... The involvement of all people and organisms is essential to contribute in drawing a new model of urban mobility, in which public transport must gain place to the individual, in benefit of a healthier environment, friendly and respectful with the urban environment.
Similarly, urban intermodality is one of the objectives of cities committed to the future must bear in mind, complemented by the introduction of educational policies towards public spirit and shared services. Next generation Mobility systems need to be endowed with intelligence, so that there is a communication of the city’s system and the citizens. They also need a centralized management, which will provide the relevant data in order that we can analyze the behavior and improve the system.
Therefore, the role of the private enterprise is key and specially the role of the technology. As a practical case, ICNITA EMOVITY shows an example of a Project implemented in 15 cities in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, which has been opened to the public few months ago, and which turned to be the biggest project in the world in terms of network of public bike parking.
Project Background and Context:
The growing use of the private car obliges city councils to simplify and encourage citizens to use of sustainable means of transport. Among these alternatives, the most efficient is the bicycle.
The current concern of cities and their citizens is mostly theft of the private bicycle, or of some of its fittings, whenever it is parked in the street. City councils need to be able to provide citizens with a municipal network of safe bicycle parking areas with sufficient surveillance to prevent abuse such as permanent occupations of a
slot.
The growing use of the private car obliges city councils to simplify and encourage citizens to use of sustainable means of transport. Among these alternatives, the most efficient is the bicycle.
The current concern of cities and their citizens is mostly theft of the private bicycle, or of some of its fittings, whenever it is parked in the street. City councils need to be able to provide citizens with a municipal network of safe bicycle parking areas with sufficient surveillance to prevent abuse such as permanent occupations of a
slot.
The City of Barcelona was a pioneer in implementing a Bike Sharing System, and after some years, cities that
that comprise the Barcelona Metropolitan Area had the aim to promote the use of the bike as well, giving to the citizens a completely safe and comfortable solution, so they could use their particular bike to move within city. They realized that their profile of citizens already had their own bike, so the city councils decided to look for a network of safe parking for the bikes, which must be really chap to maintain, especially compared to the
Bike Sharing system, which has some associated cost as the redistribution of bikes and their maintenance.
We are definitely living in a moment where the bicycle is no longer a mean of transport for the lower classes, but is considered as a fast and sustainable mean of urban transport, and it can even become a luxury product.
We are definitely living in a moment where the bicycle is no longer a mean of transport for the lower classes, but is considered as a fast and sustainable mean of urban transport, and it can even become a luxury product.
Conceptualization of the system and Project Design:
There are some important aspects that anyone must consider in order to
success in launching a new solution related to the urban transport System:
Innovation & New technologiesThere are some important aspects that anyone must consider in order to
success in launching a new solution related to the urban transport System:
Sustainable cities
Shared solutions
Mobility on demand
Coexisting with the urban environment
Saturated cities
Economic crisis
Intermodality
Business models
Reducing noise in the area
Reducing CO2 contamination
Going green
Real-time management
Intelligence in the system
Economic viability
Safe
Simplicity & User friendly
Guaranteed operation
Energy efficient
Adaptability & Easy installation
The Result:
The Network of safe private bicycle parking bays is a innovative solution comprised of bicycle parking modules that fully protect it from vandalism, allowing to every person to keep his bike in an individual space. This is an alternative and complementary system to the bicycle sharing and enables users to have their own bicycle, while at the same time being a more economical solution for city councils.
The electronic control guarantees safe, sure user management. The centralised system enables operators to control the condition of all the modules from one point. It has different technologies as the RFID or the GPRS integrated. The modules are completely independent as the power is supplied by solar panels and communication is via mobile telephone networks
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