Hi, Oslo has the same system as Barcelona, developed by the talented people at Frost Produkt (www.frostprodukt.com), and apart from the obvious vandalism the solution itself is quite slick in my humble opinion.
The system uses a personal RFID card (yearly subscription of %u20AC10, no code), and you are able to use the bikes for 3 hours at a time. If you fail to return the bikes after 3 hours you get a penalty. after three penalties your card is de-activated. There are also more temporary subscriptions available for tourists. The bike-racks have a built-in mobile-device that alerts the "bike-truck drivers" whenever a rack is empty, when it's full, and when a bike is put back straight away (meaning it's probably broken). This data is continually monitored to keep the balance of vacant bikes/vacant racks throughout the city at any given time. In conjunction with the "hardware" there are various web/mobile-based services telling users where they can find vacant bikes or vacant racks. all in all a very good service for %u20AC10 a year. niklas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43428 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
