Lyon's rentabike scheme
Follow-up to Why campus bike hire won't work from Cycling to and around Warwick University
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The key point is that "high tech" is used to provide a strong incentive not to abuse the system. It's no use labouring under the hippy-era illusion that most people would be public-spirited enough to return bikes after use unless they knew they would be held accountable. Also "high-tech" cuts down on the paperwork.
13 Aug 2005 10:30
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[Skip to the latest comment]John Dale
Very interesting. I suspect that the costs of implementing a scheme of this sort for the campus would outweight the likely benefits.
13 Aug 2005, 11:37
There's a very similar scheme in Brussels, where they have much the same issues. I really don't think that bike hire/borrowing on campus is going to fly – the distances just aren't long enough to make it worth the effort.
13 Aug 2005, 13:40
Well the Registrar thinks it's worth a feasibility study see link
Although since that thread was being written there's been a move away from focussing on the technology to focus on the "market", with £2000 to be spent on investigating how often students and staff would use such a scheme.
13 Aug 2005, 13:44
John Dale
Yes. I speak as a member of that group when I say that I think it's unlikely that a scheme of the sort you describe would be adopted. (I also note that the chair of the group has now left the university and there has been a fairly long silence in relation to the group since that time.)
13 Aug 2005, 15:09
So does that mean the feasibility study has been quietly dropped? It's a pity that a larger group of people wasn't sampled to discover what proportion thought they would use such a scheme.
Personally I wouldn't as I don't travel between the extreme ends of the campus (Gibbet Hill and Westwood). Even if I did I would use my own bicycle, you wouldn't get me waiting around for minibuses. But I'm not representative of the wider body of students.
13 Aug 2005, 15:57
John Dale
I don't know. Quite often in these situations, working groups are eventually resurrected if someone deems it important enough. But there has been no sign of that to date.
13 Aug 2005, 19:17
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