India Bicycling

Imagine cycling 365 hours a year for just Rs.300! And you won't have to maintain the cycle, clean it or buy it. Just use the docking stations provided and you are good to go. What a useful system, particularly when one prefers using public transport or can't find parking close enough.
In other words: India's might have its first automated bicycle sharing system up and running across one of its big cities very soon. Known as ATCAG, this system is in pilot phase and appears to be a strong business model that strongly benefits the public.

The people behind it not only include Government officials thinking ahead but also three very young entrepreneurs. Meet Srinivas, Arfath and Srinidhi: they are in their early twenties and have come far with this BOT partnership. Together they form a company called Kerberon Automations and have developed innovative technology as part of the ATCAG system.

Autowalas should ideally think twice now before hiking up prices at will!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Kerberon Automations
• Srinidhi Sriram
• Srinivas Ramesh
• Syed Haseed Arfath
• ATCAG
• Indian Public Transport
• Green technology
• Lakshmi Rebecca
• Chai with Lakshmi
• Young Indian Entrepreneurs

[ArfathKerberon]

@athirupabc Congratulations on having successfully implemented the concept with whatever resources you had at your disposal! :) We at kerberon develop technology that would make the platform self-operable and more efficient in terms of customer experience and operation. It overcomes the disadvantages you have pointed out in your website. When we launched ATCAG in a private campus in early 2010, manual bike-share services were running in Delhi, Pune and we did understand that its a painful job :)

[athirupabc]

for more details please google athirup

[athirupabc]

there is a simplified version that is implemented in trivandrum and kochi....it involves bicycles locked with number locks....the opening codes are smsed to registered members....racks are easy to implement as it does not need much setup infrastructure...a software is developed for 24x7 response.....number locks are changed occasionally to prevent re-usage...a dropbox in each rack collects payments

[athirupabc]

really state-of-art

[ArfathKerberon]

Thank you guys for the positive reactions...will not disappoint you!

[psankar]

All the best

[ravitejwani]

Fantastic!!! Hope to see the lanes for these cycles coming up soon in Bangalore, in order to overcome the traffic. Great going.. Wish you good luck...

[shashidarla]

This concept has been beautifully implemented in London and Milan. But I believe Bangalore would surely be a right choice to commence this venture !