Search results for "Bike sharing"
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Valnerina Bike Sharing: prospettive di trasformazione territoriale
2018
Il contributo proposto intende esporre il progetto Valnerina Bike Sharing, un servizio intercomunale di bike sharing elettrico a pedalata assistita finanziato all’interno del Programma di Sviluppo Rurale per l'Umbria 2014 – 2020, che s’inserisce in un territorio compreso tra la Cascata delle Marmore e la ex ferrovia Spoleto-Norcia. Con l’obiettivo primario di incrementare il turismo responsabile in territori a elevato valore naturalistico, l'intervento intende incentivare la mobilità ciclo-pedonale, sostenibile e accessibile, utilizzando in gran misura l’arteria sentieristica della rete regionale che si snoda lungo l’asse del fiume Nera contribuendo alla definizione di un sistema unitario i…
School Bike Sharing Program: will it Succeed?
2020
Abstract Encouraging active and sustainable transport modes in order to limit the excessive use of cars, as well as reducing pollutant emissions and creating livable urban environments, has become one of the priorities for policymakers in recent years. The introduction of innovative systems increasingly being introduced in modern cities, such as bike sharing, can certainly contribute to the spread of cycling and thus allow a radical change in the mobility habits of their citizens. This can be especially true for high-school students who are often otherwise accompanied by their parents with private cars. This article aims to assess the influence that a bike sharing program for students has o…
The Role of Sharing Practise and Dematerialized Services in Smart Cities
2016
La gestione intelligente dell'abitare nelle città e delle tradizionali funzioni urbane riassume il modello smart city. Attraverso un approccio integrato generato dall'uso dell'ICT e del web, che assume il ruolo di tecnologia abilitante per il cambiamento, le città contemporanee stanno prepotentemente cambiando. L'età digitale crea infatti le condizioni per l'emergere di nuovi strumenti e nuovi servizi per i cittadini, basati sulla comunicazione e sulla condivisione e le pratiche di partecipazione. Il capitolo contestualizza questi cambiamenti focalizzando su alcuni esempi su cosa può essere definito come servizi dematerializzati delle città contemporanee, visti come nuovi servizi urbani e n…
Optimizing the level of service quality of a bike-sharing system
2016
Public bike-sharing programs have been deployed in hundreds of cities worldwide, improving mobility in a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable way. However, the quality of the service is drastically affected by imbalances in the distribution of bicycles among stations. We address this problem in two stages. First, we estimate the unsatisfied demand (lack of free lockers or lack of bicycles) at each station for a given time period in the future and for each possible number of bicycles at the beginning of the period. In a second stage, we use these estimates to guide our redistribution algorithms. Computational results using real data from the bike-sharing system in Palma de Mall…
Understanding the Key Factors of Shared Mobility Services: Palermo as a Case Study
2020
The potential success of shared mobility services in the urban area strongly depends on careful tariff planning, adequate sizing of the fleet and efficient integrated public transport system, as well as on the application of policies in favor of sustainable modes of transport. The balance between earnings and expenses is not always an easy target for the companies in those cities where these services are not well-rooted in the citizens’ mobility habits. Often only large operators in the sector can continue to offer a service generating profit. However, several factors can determine the success or the failure of shared mobility services. The objective of this study is to identify, thanks to …
Performance of LoRa for Bike-Sharing Systems
2019
Today bike sharing systems are becoming popular in many cities as short-distance transit vehicles. More than 18 million bicycles are available worldwide for public use and one of the main problems that afflicts such sharing systems is the loss of bikes, which can be stolen or simply left in unknown locations. Thus, many bikes are docked or tracked using GPS and costly cellular connections. In this paper, we consider the emerging Long Range (LoRa) technology for use in bike sharing systems. LoRa exploits free ISM bands and has been conceived for low power and low data rate applications. Additionally, LoRa is characterized by large cells and heterogeneous application domains, which may lead t…
Progettazione in un contesto multiutente e multimodale di sistemi di bike/car sharing per uno sviluppo sostenibile e smart di una città metropolitana
2021
Cycling for Home-to-School Travel in Palermo: A Method for Assessing the Optimal Allocation of New Cycling Infrastructure
2019
In order to reduce the number of cars on the road, one of the most incisive actions is to encourage cycling, e.g. through the introduction of bike-sharing systems. In particular, the activation of special bike-sharing programs for school students could lead students to choose this mode of transport to make their own home-school travel. The success of such initiatives is primarily linked to the presence of a continuous and functional cycle network, which can create safe routes to school. It is, therefore, necessary a cycle network design model that allows determining the optimal allocation of new cycle paths, maximizing the number of users and considering technical and economic constraints. …