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GPS Bike System Rationale

The Product Services System I design is a GPS bike station located in all getaway accommodation locations throughout Australia. The intended markets are families with children, young couples, teenage groups, and backpackers.

For the first three targeted market, they usually go on accommodation during the long weekends, any other holidays such as semester break, school term break, or taking days off work. Their methods of travelling to the location are usually by driving or public transports. However, both these methods would produce a lot of pollution and it is best to minimise the use of these products and services. Also due to the cost of public transport and petrol are rapidly increasing, there is a need to have a cheaper way to travel.

Therefore, I introduced the GPS bike station, which it can produce zero carbon dioxide, and it is good exercise. So the GPS bike station would be located outside the visitor centre of all accommodation hot spots, such as Kiama, Blue Mountains, Byron Bay etc. which is very close if not, located to the city centre. These accommodation spots are small, which makes it easy to locate the stations, but there are more places to these area which people can explore. Therefore, having a bike would really help them explore these areas, and most the time, these places are in the mountains or close to cliffs where driving is not permitted. And it would take a very long walk to go to these places, which is very hard for families with children to go. And riding a bike has the benefit of interacting with the environment and gain a much deeper feeling with the surrounding, because if the people are driving in a car, they cannot stop anytime, anywhere to have a look at places. Whereas a bike can stop at any time, and the user can interact with the environment and not miss any part of the fun. There should not be much concern with the weather, as people would go on accommodation on nice weather and would not go out in a rainy day in the first place. The built in GPS is charged using solar power panel at the station, as well as the generator in the bike.

So the user can go online to reserve for a bike by entering their details, as well as go straight to the visitor centre and fill in credit card details, the user is then allocated a bike number and the user needs to unplug the bike to unlock it, and as the user ride the bike, the kinetic energy will be converted into charging power for the GPS, making the GPS last longer. Once the user is done with the bike, they return the bike back to the station and plug the charger back on, and it will notify the visitor centre, and charge the user by how long they used the bike. The GPS helps the user to go where they want, as well as for the visitor centre to locate the bike if the bike is lost or accidents happened.

Recharagable bike trip planner

1) Family goes for a long weekend trip. (eg. Kangaroo Valley, Barossa Valley, Byron Bay, etc.) which they are popular long weekend trip and cycling location.

2) Rechargeable bike station are located in the city center of all trip location. (eg. Kangaroo Valley, Barossa Valley, Byron Bay, etc.) It has solar panel on the roof to cover the bikes.

3) Each bike has a built in GPS, and it is charged by the solar panel when it was parked at the station.

4) User can rent a bike that contains two seats, they can go on their field trip. Which can reduce driving or taxi usage, hence less CO2 emission. The bike contains rechargeable batteries to charge the GPS, it converts the kinetic energy to the battery and can be used for the GPS, meaning it charges up the battery as the user rides the bike, and it can be used if the energy from solar panel runs out.

5) After user has finished using it for the day, they return it the station and it charges using the solar panel as it is returned. (The bike contains a built in GPS, therefore, the station can track on the location of the bike if it is lost or not returned.)