As has been said many times, the bicycle is the most efficient and effective mode of transportation in urban areas for trips under 8km of distance as it is a solution that improves mobility and reduces congestion. For electrical bicycles, distance increases above 15km. The use of bicycles as a mode of transportation has many benefits to society, environmental benefits, reduced sedentary, improves cardiovascular health, easy-of-use, low cost, face Europe’s population aging, etc.
But individual mobility has continued to evolve, and electric kick-scooters have made a very strong entry into the market in all countries, both for private and shared use.
The use of bicycles and kick scooters are widespread throughout the world, all cultures and economical levels, age, gender...
According to the EU bicycle policy challenges, governments have promoted different strategies to promote their use, such as bike lanes, 30 zones, traffic lights for bicycle, bike sharing systems (conventional and electrical), simple parking, among others, that are resulting in an increase of the use of private bicycle as a mode of transportation in cities. And kick scooters have taken advantage of all these policies to take up their share of use in cities as well.
So, cities have important challenges to face in the face of this increase in personal mobility vehicles: on the one hand, theft, and on the other, how to manage the streets of this fleet of private and sharing vehicles that are occupying public spaces around the world by leaps and bounds.
In this way, users are demanding secure parking due to the high number of bicycle thefts that occur in cities. And cities need order. And the sharing market needs volume, and cities so far regulate order by limiting the number of licenses.
Both administrations and private companies are already implementing and paying for parking solutions for people who travel by bicycle and kick scooter, as it was done before with other private transport modes. In this context and to tackle one of the main EU micro mobility challenges, Vadecity has created vadeBike (product and service), an innovative product and service of bicycle and kick scooter parking: smart, safe, easy-of-use, with high efficiency of the utilization of the space, good cost efficiency and added value for money.
The main socioeconomic impact expected is the increase of the use of the bicycle and kick scooters as mode of transportation, in benefit of the whole society, reducing the number of thefts and providing organized locations to park the bicycles and kick scooters comfortably. Therefore, we can affirm that the global impact of the project is the reduction of congestion and pollution in large urban areas. This objective is directly linked to the challenges of the European Commission on the management of urban mobility.
