The Pros And Cons Of Public Bicycle Sharing System

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Public bicycle system, or bicycle sharing system, which can be traced back to the 1960s in Europe, has been drawing increasing attention in China and even abroad despite its first launch in the Chinese market more than a decade ago, proven by the huge quantities of bikes featured various colors representing different companies on the main streets of China and the rocketing number of users. To gain such achievements, the convenience and cheapness it features and the current technology, both of which directly contribute to its great success, and its lasting impact on Chinese society should not be ignored. This essay will explain the three factors mentioned above. The convenience of public bicycle system, including the massive quantities …show more content…

Over the past 53 years, three generations of the bike-sharing system have been launched around the world, first two of which failed to be implemented because of the poor maintenance and lack of position-fixing technology, leading to damage and theft for private use(DeMaio, 2003, 2004). The third generation started with a bike-sharing program called Bikeabout in 1996 at Portsmouth University in England, innovative for the application of magnetic stripe card to rent a bike(DeMaio 2005). This also put forward an idea of the electronically-locking rack, which is still employed nowadays. Twenty years later, the application of GPS and the online payment, people simply need to scan the two-dimensional code on the bike and ride it after the electronically- controlled locker is off. The position of the bike is fixed and simultaneously, and the computer will calculate the amount of money they have to pay, which is proportional to the time of riding. Having finished the ride, money will be drawn from one’s account via the Internet. To a large extent, cases like damage and theft are eliminated with these …show more content…

As is known to all, unlike most means of transportation, a bike consume one’s energy instead of oil. In other words, bikes expose riders to daily exercise with zero-carbon emission on the way to the destination. In a world where cars remain the major transportation and air quality is getting worse due to the massive carbon emission, people owning private cars are expected to leave their cars at home and switch to the bike-sharing system(Shafi Musaddique, 2017). In the long term, if the business keeps thriving, chances are that the there will be fewer cars running on the roads and air quality in highly-polluted cities like Beijing and Shanghai will be

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