Georgia Tech students take bike sharing high-tech
Emory University and Georgia Tech are going high-tech with bike sharing! Emory already has a successful bike sharing program, and now a $50,000 grant awarded to some Georgia Tech students and Bike Emory by the Ford College Community Challenge will fund development of "ViaCycle," an automated bike share system. ViaCycle "promises to create advanced bicycle sharing technology that allows easy deployment of affordable, sustainable transportation." The project will roll out this summer/fall on the Emory campus, and developers how to bring bike sharing to Georgia Tech and the neighborhoods between the campuses at some point in the future. This video from the press conference demonstrate how the prototype works, and more videos about the system are available in the AtlBicycleCoalition video stream.
$50,000 Ford College Community Challenge Grant
to Georgia Tech students and to Bike Emory
followed by a demonstration of viaCycle
an intelligent, distributed bicycle sharing system
10 am
March 9, 2010
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Management - Room 200
800 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information, call 404 385-4950
Directions to the College of Management can be found at the following link:
http://mgt.gatech.edu/about_us/map_directions.html
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