LEGO Foundation LEGO Foundation - Research & Learning - Research & Learning. Bike Sharing with RF-ID. The Portland City Council today approved a community bicycling sharing program. Bike sharing allows users to check their rentals back in at any station in the city. RF-ID is used to identify bikes and riders.
It will cost about $4 million, with $2 million from federal funds and $2 million from private investments. The city would likely start with 75 stations and 750 bikes. Capital Bikeshare uses a system designed by Montreal-based Bixi. Denver’s B-cycle project, SmartBike and Ubicycle have similar RFID bike sharing technology. Capital Bikeshare website also has smartphone applications to see where rental stations are located and how many bikes are available. Mayor Sam Adams has endorsed the bike sharing program.
Garmin Cycling Sensors include: The $150 Edge 200 GPS-enabled cycling computer. which tracks time, distance, speed, location and calories burned—without needing to install a separate sensor. White Spaces, say proponents, may soon provide a low-cost connectivity option. Nice Ride « bike.walk.MOVE. Nice Ride season over, but consider the bus for short trips Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 The following is a post written by Hilary Reeves, communications director, Bike Walk Twin Cities, that originally ran in the Downtown Journal. Now that Nice Ride bikes are tucked away for the winter, consider using the bus for your quick trips to lunch, meetings, doctor’s appointments, or shopping.
Using Metro Transit is an ideal way to save on car and gas expenses, improve our local air quality and enhance your personal health. It’s always sad to see the green bikes and stations taken off the road for winter. The folks at Nice Ride report that people who subscribe to Nice Ride (and get their own key fob for locking and unlocking bikes) use them primarily for transportation – including getting to work or school. Nice Ride stations are strategically located near both bus and light rail stops. Use the bus for your short trips Downtown Minneapolis to Uptown? Benefits of Metro Transit Goodnight Nice Ride. Citybyke.co.uk - Bike sharing, Cycle sharing, Bike rental, Velib, Vipre.
Membership fees within the UK Daily - from £2.00 per day for day of rental Weekly - from £7.00 per week for week of rental Annual - from £50.00 per annum The first one hours usage is free, thereafter the charge is £3.00 per hour or part thereof. Please note that these are indicative prices and may vary at different cities. A deposit will be required to secure the value of the bikes. Bike Management, Payment Processing and Kiosks Billing systems, payment kiosks and call centre support functions are managed by our Partnering Organisation -Shere Ltd. Shere a UK based company is a supplier of high quality Self Service and desktop transactional systems to the travel and leisure industries.
Currently, Shere has more than 1,000 automated ticketing terminals installed in the UK processing around £100 million per month in cash and card payments. Billing systems and memberships can be adapted to suit individual locations and needs. Welcome to Bike San Pedro. Bike San Pedro - Waterfront A San Pedro Aesthetic Mitigation Proposal to the Port of Los Angeles (online version). Submitted by Richard Pawlowski 9.17.08 Essential GREEN Transportation Program for San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles Introduction San Pedro, because of it's unique street topography, historic community characteristics and proximity to the Port of Los Angeles - where most ALL east-west streets are either uphill OR downhill and also go to OR from the Port itself, San Pedro needs its own unique and strategic, long-range bike transportation plan.
The Planning Department of City of Los Angeles, the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and Los Angles Department of Transportation (LADOT) have NOT yet done this nor are they likely to anytime soon because of staffing, budget constraints and inter-agency conflicts. Phase One - COMMUNITY DRAFTED PLAN Phase Two - BIKE FREE ON THE WATERFRONT Phase Two of BIKE SAN PEDRO will begin a BIKE FREE ON THE WATERFRONT program - so Management & Estimated Cost.
Charlwood Design envisions Vestri bike rental system for a greener tomorrow. Taking inspiration from the modern city environment, Charlwood Design (Victoria-based Australian design firm) conceives the Vestri bike rental system that allots wind turbines a respectable position within an entirely green setup. Aside from generating their own power, the stations lock the bikes and wirelessly communicate to a central command centre about vacant slots. The central computer and bike lighting also get the much-needed succor from the wind power. Vestri Bike: The bike system will rely on modern, elegant Vestri bikes to offer an eco-friendly commute. The low-cost bikes come with a rotationally molded polypropylene body and shaft drive for easy maintenance.
Fully adjustable (through a fastener) seat sits above a shock absorbent spring. The concept: The Vestri rental stations – deployed around a vertical wind turbine – are built from aluminum. The rental process: As users insert a credit card or a Vestri card, they qualify themselves to borrow bikes. Free Bike Hire Cheltenham - Transport - Cheltenham. 'Boris bikes' scheme is launched for Canterbury. ON YOUR BIKE: A docking station containing 20 folding bikes will be installed at Canterbury West Comments (0) A BICYCLE hire project similar to the "Boris bikes" scheme in London is being introduced in Canterbury.
Lockers containing 20 folding bikes will be installed at Canterbury West railway station by the spring, which can be hired in both the short and long term for commuter, business and leisure trips. The initiative is being led by bike hire company Brompton Dock, Kent County Council and train operator Southeastern. It has been compared to the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme known as "Boris bikes," which was launched by London mayor Boris Johnson in July 2010. In Canterbury, the bikes will be available to hire for £2.50 a day if cyclists pay a £45 annual membership fee, or £5 a day if they pay £10 for the year. They must first register on the company's website and pay the membership fee, which can also be done on a smartphone.
He said: "I think it's a fantastic idea. Home | Design Council. About Measuring Usability LLC. Measuring Usefulness. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) Jeff Sauro • November 1, 2011 Is it easy to use? As important as that question is, there's one that's more important: Is it useful? First and foremost, a product, website or application should solve a problem, fill a need or offer something people find useful.
In fact, people are willing to put up with poor usability if a product delivers something of great perceived value. Conversely, it doesn't matter how easy to use a product is if people don't find it useful. Predicting Usage A good first step in predicting how much people will use a new product is to predict how how much they are using an existing product. He developed what's come to be known as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and a standardized questionnaire[pdf] that measures technology acceptance. Participants are asked to provide their level of agreement on a 7 point scale (1=strongly disagree and 7 = strongly agree). Usefulness is 1.5 times more important than Ease of Use Caution. Using AI to Evaluate Creative Designs (ICDC 2012) Marc Stickdorn, This is Service Design Thinking, 10 Nov 2011. Thomas Fisher: The Rigor of Creativity. Watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. We have so mystified, romanticized, and idealized creativity, so convinced ourselves that it remains primarily the purview of artists or "geniuses," that far too many people believe that they are not creative.
In fact, they have not been allowed, or allowed themselves, to use the creativity that they and just about everyone else is born with. All human beings have a capacity for creativity because of how our brain works. When we learn about some object, for instance, we store that knowledge in different parts of our brain. Our educational system largely tests this recombinant ability. Creativity involves the intentional, systematic, and rigorous miscombination of what we know in order to generate something new. Janet Echelman reveals this creative process at work.
Creativity involves the intentional, systematic, and rigorous miscombination of what we know in order to generate something new. -- Thomas Fisher Ideas are not set in stone. Prof. Dr. Mary Lou Maher: "Technology Enhanced Innovation and Learning" Mary Lou Maher. This is Service Design Thinking. Design for Innovation.
Use our methods. DP0 (Design Project Zero) is a 90-minute (including debrief) fast-paced project though a full design cycle. Students pair up to interview each other, create a point-of-view, ideate, and make a new solution that is “useful and meaningful” to their partner. Two versions of DP0 are “The Wallet Project” and “The Gift-Giving Project”. They have the similar format, only the topic is different. The original DP0 The Wallet Project was created for the d.school’s very first course in 2004 and the project starts with students looking at the content of their partner’s wallet or purse (and goes on to ask every student to design something for their partner). Another DP0 topic is The Gift-Giving Project where students are asked to redesign how their partner gives gifts. Get the materials to facilitate the activity for a group yourself here. Or play the Crash Course (video facilitation that leads the group) here. Designers. Service Design. Mention service design to your UX colleagues and you may find yourself unwittingly engaged in a game of Buzzword Bingo.
Whether you call it “service design,” “holistic design,” “multi-channel experience design” or “cross-channel design,” chances are you’re all talking about the same thing. And your next challenge is defining exactly what you mean when you say “service design.” The field of service design is still young and evolving. And its interdisciplinary nature makes it difficult to define. In fact, according to the first-ever textbook on service design, This is Service Design Thinking, no common definition of service design exists.
Isn’t It Just Good Marketing? As someone with experience in both marketing and experience design, I’m intrigued by the ways in which the fields of marketing and service design overlap and complement one another. Here are a few things to consider when we compare marketing and service design: What a Production! Deal with Reality Beyond Center Stage.