CYBIKE
A SELF ORGANIZING FITNESS LANDSCAPE FOR DEVELOPING USER RESPONSIVE BIKE SHARE HUBS DEEP CHANIARA, KARL POLLEY, EVAN JEANBLANC The design of the CYBIKE sharing program was developed to enhance access to forms of transportation outside of vehicles in the city of Ames, Iowa. Creating a system which calibrates itself to find the most coveted areas in need of bikes lays the foundation for a transportation system which directly responds to users needs over time. Without top down control the system reorganizes itself in response to perturbations such as weather and class sessions by adjusting predesignated paramaters relocate hubs where they will recieve the most use.
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CYBIKE
CYBIKE
FIND A BIKE
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PLAN YOUR ROUTE
SIGN IN TERMS Create an Account
CYBIKE HIRING
PARAMETERS - FREE FOR A YEAR
- 15 MINUTE RATE
The program will be free for the first year of operation to ensure its usage is not deterred by the initial cost.
The first 30 minutes of a ride are free so long as the bike is returned to a hub before time is up. After 30 minutes a 15 minute rate is charged to the rider.
- EMPTY HUBS
Empty hubs are happy hubs, there bikes are in use and they signal other hubs to join them.
- FULL HUBS
AGENTS - BIKES - HUBS - HUMANS
ENERGY
INITIAL DISTRIBUTION
CALIBRATION PERIOD
EMERGING BIKE HUBS
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- CYBIKE HIRING CYBKIE is hiring! Work when tou want shifting hubs to happy locations and returning lost bikes.
Full hubs are unhappy, in response to this they look for happy locations using their connections to other hubs.
USE FULL TRANSPORT
FEEDBACK
- BIKE GPS LOCATIONS - GLOBAL SATELLITE IMAGERY - TIME STAMPS - STARTS / STOPS
EMERGENT PATERNS - PRIME BIKE HUB LOCATIONS - NEW BIKE HUB LOCATIONS - SEASONAL BIKE NEEDS - CITY BIKE SATURATION
9’
CYBIKE ELEVATION
18’
GATHER INFORMATION (Test for one week)
YES
AM I AT A HUB?
NO
YES
DROP OFF GATHERED INFO
YES
AM I IN MOTION?
AM I HAPPY?
NO
STAY
PICK UP INFO FOR TRANSPORT
HAVE I BEEN MOVING FOR 30 MINUTES?
NO
HAVE I BEEN STOPPED FOR 5 MINUTES?
CONTINUE FREE USE
AM I EXCEEDINGLY HAPPY?
NO
PING MAP TO HAVE HUMAN MOVE ME
YES SET LOCATION FOR UNHAPPY HUBS
START CHARGING MONEY
LOCATE AREA OF EXCEEDING HAPPINESS
NO YES
YES
NO
PAY HUMAN FOR MOVING ME TO CORRECT LOCATION
SET PING ON MAP
HUB: BIKE
- If a bike has been stopped at any location for at least 5 minutes, a tick mark is recorded for that location. - Bikes also track the duration of each persons trip. (From bike-hub to bike-hub.
- Keeps track of information gathered by bikes, as well as information passed from other hubs. - Hubs organize themselves based on whether or not heymeet their definition of “Happy”. - Hubs are able to gather information from bikes that are within a certain proximity to them.
Happiness Criteria: Unhappy - 80% of the time, the hub has fewer than 75% of its slots filled. Happy - 80% of the time, the hub has at least 75% of its slots filled. Exceedingly Happy - 60% of the time, the hub has more than 100% of its slots filled