Tackling a complex urban mobility challenge: a car –free and green city

DESCRIPTION OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CASE

The bicycle is the most individual and low- emission means of transport of all. E-bike in particular enables old people or people who would not cycle due to distance or effort to use the bike. The ideal city of the future is car-free and green. The bicycle or especially e-bikes are unavoidable, no matter if as a shared or owned vehicle.

But e-bikes are at high risk if they are protected with a regular cycle lock or even in a regular accessible parking lot. So what concept could we provide to store e- bikes safe and charge them, on order to provide even more advantages for the customer?

Think out of the box (e.g. a tree) in order to keep the investment costs low and create a sustainable, efficient and cheap solution. Also implement IoT elements for predictive maintenance and increased user experience.

Questions that need answers

Technical aspect

• Which mechanical construction would you use? (elevator, automatic storage, ...)
• Which technological implementation do you use for the check-in (app. check-in Terminal) How do you secure the bikes? (damage from the machine, damage to people, damage from environmental events ....)
• Is the system scalable for future increase of e-bikes?

Business aspect