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When was having too many cycles in the city ever a problem?
Photograph from H.C. Anderson Blvd, Kobenhaven, Denmark
pic: Sonal Kulkarni
The document will be released to the public and the press along with the govt and private
stakeholders who will be involved in the system. The document only serves as a guide and
tables the issues. The final outcome will be decided by the government and the procedures
adopted by them
It should allow people to borrow a bike from point A and return it at point B.
The role of PBS in achieving a modal shift to public transportation is more valuable than
making complete trips.
objectives of mobility solution. We see customers of all ages using the service.
Everyone from teenagers to senior citizens enjoy PEDL.
running a PBS in Mobike - Increase adoption of bicycle rides - Be #2 or #3 in modal
share (in terms of no. of rides), Mass adoptions - From all walks of life.
a city in India and No deliberate segmentation for adoption. (by design, we are not ready
what kind of for para transit - for people with disabilities)
Ofo -We wish to bridge the last mile gap with our bicycles,
customers will be complementing public transport - to help reduce traffic congestion,
using your bikes? and to reduce carbon emissions from motorised vehicles. While
commuters are our key focus, our bicycles are used for a variety of
uses, including tourism and leisure.
This means it needs to serve all sections of society and not just the car user.
Why scale?
There is a need to scale now as both the
economy and purchasing power are
exploding. This is causing congestion at an
alarming scale. The built form is also
rapidly accommodating a car based travel
instead of a cycling & walk based form.
The environment is also degrading rapidly
with quickly deteriorating air quality. It is
imperative to shift the mode share towards
more sustainable modes as soon as
possible.
In a new market like PBS where we are trying to induce a demand, private players might not risk
their money where there is no existing demand while the city might commit to overlooking
immediate profits and deploy in low demand locations and look to induce a mode shift.
Municipal Corporation - The city corporation or development authority should provision spaces
in parking areas, sidewalks, CA sites or other locations identified by the nodal agency towards
bike parking.
Mass transport authorities - Mass transport organisations like the metro, bus and railway
authorities should provision space for bike docking stations within its stations and make them
available for bikes.
Traffic Police - The enforcement authority will allow for parking of bicycles in the street parking
areas identified by itself or the city corporation. Bikes left behind in unauthorised space need to
be towed away like motor vehicles and the operator responsible for getting it released. An MoU
is required with traffic police and the nodal agency to enable this.
A permit system with clear guidelines on service levels and outcomes will give the right
amount of control
PEDL - It would be very helpful if the city could support cycle sharing
QUESTION TO OPERATORS
operators with a clear parking policy which will allow parking on the
What regulations road or footpath in certain demarcated areas. This is the common
would you like to practice across Europe, the US, and China.
Mobike - Stringent rules of bike quality, recovery of damaged bikes,
see from the rules for parking norms and with time window for clearance, penalties
beyond that, allow operators to instill discipline among users through
government? incentives and penalties and addressing long term riding behaviours
Ofo - We will like to see fair regulations on bicycling so as to keep our
bicycles and riders safe in the city and get them fair share of the road
and time at signals.
The city should make it a condition that the operators provide data on broken bikes and
make available a neutral complaint portal that can take user complaints on the system.
Mobike
QUESTION TO OPERATORS
1.Commitment to make every street a cycle friendly street and this may
What would you not mean necessarily dedicated cycle track but more regulated parking
and segregated side lanes on the road
like to see from 2.Permit cycle parking at any legal authorised parking available for
the government? motorised vehicles
3.For Bangalore - All administrative stakeholders must be onboard -
DULT, BBMP,BMRCL, Traffic Police, BDA and not drive siloed
independent initiatives without a shared vision and commitment
4.Master Plan must include cycling infrastructure and amenities right
from cycling lanes. signages, traffic signals also some areas designated
as Cycle Only areas
5.A way to limit the number of bicycles on road but not any time soon.
the limit must be big enough to drive adoption and contain the menace
at the same time (e.g for Bangalore the limit must not be less than 5
Lacs initially)
PEDL - Over and above the parking regulations mentioned above, it
would be quite helpful if the government continued to focus on building
out cycle track infrastructure to ensure a more rapid adoption of
cycling. This will help reduce the city's carbon footprint in an even
quicker fashion.
Ofo - An enabling role.
So price fixing should be left to the operator. but if any discounts need to be given to a certain
section of society, like students or BPL card holders, then a those monies can be transferred to the
operator based on ride data submitted.
So the city should be willing to step in and run a PBS system of some reasonable scale to preserve
the market till it tips back
Ridership data, routes taken data, complaints, availability and broken bikes data, pricing
information, should be mandatorily provided to the city under the rules of the permit.
The operator should be allowed to determine where to operate. But the mechanism for
serving the other areas must be evolved on the basis of incentives and penalties
A nominal cost for the space allocated needs to be calculated, based on the guidance value in
the area, by the nodal agency and denoted as contribution to the project.
The nodal agency should be responsible for coordinating the allocation of the space and
provisioning the same to operators as inventory.
basis for you to commercial element since that will help maximise initial usage.
Ultimately, this helps improve the service.
select certain Mobike - 1. access to mass transit routes. 2. terrain/gradient. 3.
access to universities/campus - including corporates. 4. availability
regions to operate? of cycle-safe streets, parking and other favourable conditions
(levelled ground, right of way, street lighting, less deserted)
Ofo - We will aim for maximum impact by serving the regions with
highest need of our solution
PEDL - There's a possibility that other smaller players might begin QUESTION TO OPERATORS
operating in this area. By mid 2018, we will have coverage across
the entire city with each neighbourhood containing thousands of
What do you
PEDL cycles. expect to happen
Mobike - Infrastructure improvement from city authorities to make
it cycle friendly. user incentives may operate differently / at in areas where
different grade in these areas initially but there shall be attempts to you do not serve?
include these areas in the network
Credits
Special thanks to the below for providing their inputs in preparing the document.
Note: Ofo has reportedly closed operations since the time this data was being compiled and have
transferred their assets to Metro Bikes/Bounce.
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