BIKE SHARING PROGRAM
What is Bike Sharing Program?
A service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals who do not own them.
Benefits of bike sharing:
Benefits of bike sharing:
- A short, four-mile round trip by bicycle keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air.
- Cyclists are exposed to less pollution than taxi or bus passengers.
- Five billion gallons of fuel are wasted every year from cars idling in traffic.
- Those same traffic delays represent nine billion dollars in lost productivity.
- Overall, traffic congestion costs the US economy $78 billion a year.
- The average commuter spends 50 hours every year stuck in traffic.
- By 2032 traffic delays will more than double and CO2 emissions traced to congestion will reach 60 million tons.
- The average person loses 13 lbs. their first year of commuting by bike.
- At least 30 minutes of exercise is recommended at least 5 days a week.
- A fifteen minute bicycle ride to and from work five times a week can burn the equivalent of 11 pounds of fat in a year.
- The average American household spends more on transportation than on clothing, health care, and entertainment combined.
- On average, 18% of household expenditures are for transportation.
- Bicycling brings more than $1 billion to Colorado's state economy. The more often an employee cycles and the longer the distance traveled, the lower the rate of absenteeism.
How is Bike Sharing Works?
Three simple steps:
1. Choose a bike from bike station in the campus
2. Grab the bike and go.
3. Return your bike at bike station.
1. Choose a bike from bike station in the campus
2. Grab the bike and go.
3. Return your bike at bike station.
Why Bike Sharing?
1. To create a green campus with transportation solution that's clean, healthy, sustainable and lots of fun- going back to childhood memories!
2. To solve traffic problems in campus
Existing Problems:
2. To solve traffic problems in campus
Existing Problems:
- Traffic congestion
Traffic congestion in University of Malaya Main Entrance is somehow predictable but unavoidable. Vehicles are coming from the main road and also from the junction at the Pusat Asasi Sains. As the two lanes become one, it is heavily congested, especially during peak hours. Existing policy in University of Malaya only allow the final year undergraduate students to bring their own vehicle, however it is not effective enough to act as a way to relieve the congestion inside campus. There are still some students bring their own cars to campus without permit.
2. Insufficient of parking lots
3. Distance between dormitory and faculty is too far
Where?
University of Malaya, Malaysia