The document summarizes a bicycle sharing project started in Bangalore, India called Namma Cycle. It aims to promote cycling as a sustainable mode of public transportation by starting with renting 200 bicycles across 10 stations on a university campus. The project is being run by Ride a Cycle Foundation and Gubbi Labs to address traffic issues and encourage multimodal transportation. It discusses how the bicycle sharing system works, future plans to expand it, and is seeking partner support from local businesses to help make the system sustainable and benefit the community.

1. Bangalore University Bicycle Sharing ProjectPartner Promotion & Collaboration Kit

2. Namma Cycle Story It all started under a Big Tamarind Tree when a Small Old Ghost on the big tree told us that the Solution to all our traffic woes is Bicycle. The Holy Ghost also told us that we have not realized the full potential of the bicycle. Forgetting the simple and easy way of commuting we have adopted expensive cars as mode of commute. The ghost remembered the happy days in the city when there were less automobiles and more bicycles. We asked how we can come out of this vicious loop of endless traffic congestion, pollutions , accidents etc in our city.The ghost closes its eyes and whispered , “Bicycle BicycleBicycle” .Before flying away on a bicycle it left a message,“The Bicycle as vehicle shall liberate you from Traffic Jams, shall bless you with good health and vitality, shall make our city safe for our kids, shall bring people together, shall make all your journeys fun and fill your life with laughter . Therefore go young men make bicycles accessible to common man. Share the Bicycles and Do care for your city“.So we started discussing how we can promote bicycles as a mode of commute and also as a Public Transport . We have been working with Urban Department to create Bicycle Streets, Pedestrial Friendly Neighborhoods, Bicycle Parking Facilities. Coming back to Namma Cycle Story, We had seen many Bike Sharing Systems in Europe. Yet in India there was hardly any effort to promote cycling as a public transport. So this effort is to make sure bicycles are accessible to common man and an experiment to make bicycle as a vehicle of commute for short trips and a suitable vehicle for public transport. We intend to start with renting 200 cycles across 10 stations at the JnanaBharthi Campus and see how people and the community responds to this unique experiment.

3. Vision of the Last Century Heavy Infrastructure 1.0Vision of the Next Century Soft Infrastructure 2.0Bike Sharing.

4. Car Sharing.

5. Uses Mobile Technology.

6. Resource Optimization.

7. Resource Tracking.

8. Resource Utilization Estimate.

9. Intelligent and feedback based.Resource Wastage.No feedback.Costly.Unsustainable.Car CenteredFlyovers. Underpasses.Wide Roads.

10. Bike Sharing IdeaBike sharing systems in urban areas usually differ from traditional bicycle rental services since they are offered at multiple locations facilitating short-predefined trips and last-mile-connectivity. A publicbicycle sharing system is an increasingly popular system whereby bicycles are made available on a large scale in a city allowing people to have ready access to these public bikes rather than rely on their own bikes concerning urban mobility. Cycle by its very structure enables faster and smoother mobility over short distances. And a bike sharing system acts as a feeder system for other public transport systems. The success of the bike sharing systems elsewhere proves that this system has ample scope and opportunity to emerge as an innovative and alternative urban mobility solution, especially in select neighbourhoods of Bangalore, India.

11. How does it work ?We will be having 10 stations with around 20 cycles in each station.Registration and Billing : The Student registers with a online system. He gets a ID and he pays a nominal pre paid charge for using the system.Renting the BicycleThe Bicycles will be kept at specific locations displayed below.A Node Manager will rent out the bicycle to the student. He will record the rental transactions using a Mobile Phone.Returning the Bicycle The student uses the bicycle and drops it another station. A Node Manager will take back the bicycle and stop the rental transaction.System Interface given below :Theft Prevention : (Put a diagram here of theft prevention )Students will be registered only after getting a letter from the HOD.System will store the rental transactions, any stolen cycle trip can be detected easily. Also bicycles are insured .

12. Future PlanMake Bike Sharing Model sustainable , economic and most preferred mode of commute in the University Campus. In this phase we will run the experiment within the university campus.