Bhubaneswar : Here is a good news for both residents and outsiders who need a sound option for touring the smart city. The State Capital will soon provide the facility of cycling on sharing basis to every one of its inhabitants, guests and tourists . Anyone can access the benefit at a very small rental expense .
For the purpose , two leading Public Bicycle Sharing ( PBS) companies have been granted tenders by the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) to convey 1,500 quantities of bikes . Out of which Hexi Bikes is going to deploy 1,000 and Yaana Bikes 500 bicycles. The bikes will be hearty in manufactured and structure and smooth for riding on city streets. The cycles will likewise be carefully mapped dependent on GPS areas and can be easily operated with Mobile App based systems .
The Mobile App will likewise incorporate arrangements of online payment for the service . The Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT), a SPV to oversee urban transport in and around the city, and BSCL are additionally creating bicycle depots over the city, incorporated with Bus Queue Shelters (BQS) to facilitate the clients to the multi operatering system . All the proceedings and implementations are targeted to be finished before Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup-2018. The docking stations for cycles would cover all zones including heritage territory and Info City.
The bikes will likewise be fitted with smart locks, which can be operated through mobile application . A membership system is also going to be adopted for this PBS clients . It’s of two sorts, i.e. members and non-members. The members are not going to be charged for the initial 30 minutes where as the non- members will be charged for the same, very nominally. The following 30 minutes will be charged according to the expense structure.
Top world cities like Paris has PBS framework with 4,000 cycles, London accompanies 8,300 and Montreal 5,120. So also, Indian urban areas like Bhopal (500), Mysore (550), Ahmedabad (200) and Gurgaon have such framework set up .
