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Hiring a bike is set to become easier and smarter
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SHANGHAI has about 80,000 hire bikes that can only be borrowed after the user registers a bike card. Now the rental service is set to become smarter.
Bikes needing a card operate mainly in suburban districts including Baoshan, Minhang and Songjiang. They were bought by local governments to encourage green transport long before the smartphone became popular.
Local users currently have to go to the authorities to apply for a bike card, using their ID, a demand that puts off a substantial number of potential casual users.
From early 2017, people will be able to rent all bikes via mobile phones.
“Our first step is to make the rental and payment easier,” said Yu Yi, chief executive of U-Bicycle’s, which is working with local governments to save “these (80,000) wasted bikes.”
“We also plan to work with local governments to make the return easier, allowing users not having to return them to a specific spot,” Yu said.
The city’s first 1,000 public bikes were launched in 2008 near Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park metro station as a government service contracted by Forever Bicycle.
The bike rental market has become increasingly competitive over the past few months, after the first Mobike appeared in Shanghai in April.
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