Mobility Innovation through an Efficient Mobile System for Bike Sharing on Campus

Abstract

Many Chinese cities have been experiencing severe pollution. To reduce the environmental impacts of transport pollution and purse sustainable developments of society, many cites in China have adopted transport policies that primarily aim to reduction in ownership and usage of motor vehicles and promote use of public transport. The primary solution should be the development of mass public transit systems, e.g. public bike rental systems. Public bike rental systems have received increasing attention in recent years with initiatives to increase public transport usage and lessen the environmental impacts. However, most of the universities in China are located in the suburbs. The limited coverage of public bike rental systems and transportation network offers college students limited access to public transit systems. We design an efficient mobile system for bike sharing on campus, with the aim of improving travel conditions for students at institutions of higher education. The bike sharing system includes two parts, i.e. client and server. Client is designed based on Android system and server is designed based on Openstack cloud computing system. The bike sharing system can bring information of bike sharing and entertainment together from diverse sources on campus in a uniform way. The bike sharing system provides a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases of bike sharing and entertainment. We divide the bike sharing system into five functional modules, i.e. login module, lessor module, lessee module and administrator module. By integrating the designs of four modules, we use Eclipse and MySQL to implement the bike sharing system based on Android.