Bike-sharing services have been gaining increasingly more users in several Brazilian cities. In São Paulo, Yellow's system will make 20,000 bikes available using an innovative dockless model, eliminating the need to pick up or return them to specific stations. They will be monitored via GPS through chips from Vodafone Brasil—the local partner of Datora Mobile—allowing users to connect to and locate the bikes via an app. Operations began on August 2.
The “dockless” model is already used in several European and Asian cities. In addition to leisure and avoiding heavy traffic, Yellow's system is intended to serve as a complementary transit option to facilitate the first and last mile of daily commutes. Yellow aims to provide a transportation option that connects users between their homes, public transit, and work or school.
How it works
Using the system is very simple: the bikes are located on a map in the Yellow app, enabled by Vodafone Brasil's connectivity. The bike is unlocked by scanning a QR code, allowing the user to begin riding. Upon reaching their destination, the user simply locks the padlock manually to end the trip, releasing the bike for the next user. Initially, cars will redistribute the bikes; however, the company believes the system will naturally balance itself over time.
“Technological solutions benefit markets such as complex fleet management and even remote medical monitoring, and now they also drive improvements in urban mobility through projects like this,” points out Daniel Fuchs, Innovation Director at Datora.
Via CicloVivo.
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