GreenBicycling: A Smartphone-Based Public Bicycle Sharing System for Healthy Life

Abstract

Gas-consumed urban transportation causes the problems of environment pollution and traffic congestion.Bicycling is an alternative transportation way for short-distance movement, which is a green and healthy style. Some modern cities are building Public Bicycle Sharing System (PBSS), so that inhabitants and tourists can temporarily use bicycles anywhere in the city. In this paper, GreenBicycling, a smartphone-based Public Bicycle Sharing System for healthy life is developed. GreenBicycling aims to improve the user experience and encourage cyclist to use BSS. It allows cyclist to query not only the current information of rental spots, but also the forecast state. To achieve this goal, an improved back propagation network prediction model is proposed. In addition, a quantitative measurement of calorie consumption in a riding trip is introduced into GreenBicycling, so that the cyclist could get intuitive understanding of how much calorie reduction from the riding. A simplified version of the GreenBicycling APP has been released in the Windows Phone Market.

Determinative Variables Toward Promoting Use of Active Modes of Transportation: Enhancing Level of Sustainable Mobility in Communities

“…At present, almost everything humans do is through the internet and some modern cities are using the internet of things (IoT) technologies for building an intelligent active transportation system (Brincat et al, 2019). Accordingly, IoT-based facilities relate to active modes of transportation are playing a substantial role in the future of sustainable mobility all around the world (Zhao et al, 2013).…”

Cooperative Sensing Data Collection and Distribution with Packet Collision Avoidance in Mobile Long-Thin Networks

“…Cycling is a green and healthy style for short-distance movement, which has been studied in [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. Eisenman et al [ 13 ] designed and implemented a mobile networked sensing system, called BikeNet, for cyclists to provide the healthiness of a given route, such as pollution levels, allergen levels, noise levels, and roughness of the terrain.…”

“…Shin et al [ 14 ] designed a sensor-based tracking system for cyclist groups to provide each bicycle with a green power source, establish the riding path without a GPS device, and monitor cyclist trajectories and group positions. Zhao et al [ 15 ] developed a smartphone-based public bicycle sharing system for cyclists to query the numbers of bicycles in rental spots and predict the available number of returning bicycles. In addition, cyclists can estimate their calorie expenditure during a riding trip and keep tracking their physical exercises.…”

“…On the other hand, cycling has gained popularity in recent years due to concerns such as the environment and health [ 12 ]. Existing works include the bike-based mobile sensing system [ 13 ], sensor-based cyclist group tracking system [ 14 ], smartphone-based public bicycle sharing system [ 15 ], and networked bicycle platoon cooperation system [ 16 ]. In addition, multi-criteria urban bicycle routing [ 17 ] and cyclist crossing behavior model [ 18 ] are proposed for improving cycling experiences.…”

Spatiotemporal analysis of urban mobility dynamics: a case study of bicycle sharing system

“…They revealed imbalance states in bike distribution that can be understood in terms of system structure and activity dynamics. Several studies have analysed and proposed some methods to address the imbalance issue from different points of view, such as the optimization of fleet routing and the number of fleets [67], a proposal for giving incentives to users to rebalance [68], implementing imbalance prediction [17,27,69], and proposing journey advice for users [108,114,115]. Some of those studies will be reviewed in the next subsections.…”