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Revisiting my experiences and lessons learnt at Alta Planning and Design. Mpho Bowie-Molefe. What does Alta do?. Planning and designing streets, parks etc. Operating Bike share systems in: New York Boston Chattanooga Melbourne. What is Bike share?.
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Revisiting my experiences and lessons learnt at Alta Planning and Design. Mpho Bowie-Molefe
What does Alta do? • Planning and designing streets, parks etc. • Operating Bike share systems in: • New York • Boston • Chattanooga • Melbourne
What is Bike share? • A service in which bicycles are provided to the community as a green alternative mode of travel.
What was my task? • To research ridership information of bike share systems across the U.S.A. and to assemble this information into an easy-to-use database. • To research new emerging forms of bike share. • To locate and mark the position of all stations of different bike share systems. • To write up a feasibility study of my own to summarize all I had learnt.
Ridership Data • Allowed my boss to identify trends that will help inform future decisions is to face.
New emerging forms of bike share • Non-station based bike share is a new form of bike share in which the technology in bike stations is transferred onto the bikes.
Google Maps • Positioning the stations allows my boss to see different factors that affect the placing of bike share stations. Hotel Mall
What I learnt • All about bike share. • How to relate to others in a workplace. • How to write reports. • Different ways of presenting data. • Looked at my city from a different perspective.