Smart Bike Sharing System to make the City even Smarter

Smart Bike Sharing System to make the City even Smarter Monika Rani* and O. P. Vyas Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad {monikarani1988 and dropvyas}@gmail.com Abstract. These last years with the growing population in the smart city demands an efficient transportation sharing (bike sharing) system for developing the smart city. The Bike sharing as we know is affordable, easily accessible and reliable mode of transportation. But an efficient bike sharing capable of not only sharing bike also provides information regarding the availability of bike per station, route business, time/day-wise bike schedule. The embedded sensors are able to opportunistically communicate through wireless communication with stations when available, providing real-time data about tours/minutes, speed, effort, rhythm, etc. We have been based on our study analysis data to predict regarding the bike’s available at stations, bike schedule, a location of the nearest hub where a bike is available etc., reduce the user time and effort. Keywords: Smart Cities, Bike sharing, NS2 Simulator. 1 Introduction Smart city demand for energy-efficient transport system also an emphasis on sharing system for utilization of vehicle (example bicycle, motor bikes etc.). Sharing bike system has various benefits like appropriate resource management, reduce pollution, etc., lead to improved health. To motivate the bike user first we need to explore various parameters like a number of stations, the number of routes, the number of available bikes per station by using the appropriate statistical approach. Once we obtain the correct status regarding the parameters, then the serving of bikes to the growing population in the smart city become quite an easy job.
The motivation of our work is to enhance the efficiency of Bike sharing system by making bikes smart by deploying sensors on bikes this will help in collecting real- time data and to forward them to nearby stations. In the recent years popularity of a bike sharing program has shown a vital growth. Another reason is easily accessible and economical in promoting short-term bike rental system. There would be less congestion for commuters in traffic of the car parking. Tourists can also enjoy hassle free travel without changing multiple busses and taxis. The environment also gets the benefit of less smog after a weekday commute. Cities are managing development and urban living culture is facing major challenges in our daily lives. Based on statistical data of 2007, half of the population of the world was living their lives in cities. UN population fund forecasts that by the end of 2030 nearly 60% of the world population would live their life in cities [1]. Out of all major issues, we can outline, air quality, environmental crisis, and transportation issues. Use of a bicycle is an important mode of transportation that could be helpful to many urban transportation issues. As the use of motor vehicles is increasing problems as cost, congestion, accidents, loss of amenity and space, noise, air pollution, energy consumption and have an adverse effect on the natural environment. In future, use of the bicycle as transport should be the transportation solution for cities as it has no adverse effects [2] [3].
One more critical issue in any modes of transportation is of pod cars to bike, the issue is about picking people from the transport hub as a railway station, bus depots and to their destination, this problem is called last mile problem [4]. Ever wondered if we could take our vehicle out and then forget it after reaching the destination or if you don’t have to plea anyone to drop you down or pick you up. Bike sharing is required where a person can borrow a bicycle from one of our stations in the city and can return to another station. For the same smart bike sharing system develops the concept of riding a bike from one point and returning it back at another point can help to solve last mile problem. An efficient bike sharing system collects the real-time data using sensors deployed on them and send the data to stations on the way. Smart bike sharing not only solves the issue of the last mile, but also a problem of area/acres requires for car parking and reduces the waiting time for a local bus.
Our problem was to increase the efficiency of bike sharing systems and increase the participation of people in these sustainable systems, thus moving towards the concept of the smart city. Due to growing population and ch

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