BIKE INTERMODAL
THE INTERMODAL BIKE - Multi-modal integration of cycling mobility through product and process innovations in bicycle design
| Coordinatore | TRILIX SRL
Organization address
address: Largo Francia 114 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 2˙114˙060 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙581˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) |
| Code Call | FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-04-01 - 2014-03-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TRILIX SRL
Organization address
address: Largo Francia 114 contact info |
IT (Torino) | coordinator | 396˙700.00 |
| 2 |
Tecnologie Urbane SRL
Organization address
address: Via Alessandro Volta 17 contact info |
IT (Milano) | participant | 607˙400.00 |
| 3 |
maxon motor ag
Organization address
city: Sachseln contact info |
CH (Sachseln) | participant | 304˙600.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
Organization address
address: Piazza San Marco 4 contact info |
IT (Florence) | participant | 120˙800.00 |
| 5 |
ATAF SPA
Organization address
address: Viale Dei Mille 115 contact info |
IT (FIRENZE) | participant | 72˙000.00 |
| 6 |
JAVNO PODJETJE LJUBLJANSKI POTNISKI PROMET D.O.O.
Organization address
address: CELOVSKA CESTA 160 contact info |
SI (LJUBLJANA) | participant | 72˙000.00 |
| 7 |
TICONA GMBH
Organization address
address: PROFESSOR-STAUDINGER-STRASSE contact info |
DE (KLESTERBACH) | participant | 7˙500.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Goals • Object of this work is to provide -by means of product and process innovations- an advanced compactable bicycle, making it practical to carry along a bicycle aboard public transportation, easily, safely and for a large number of passengers. The ultimate goal is a synergic, intermodal integration of public transport and cycling, expanding the share of both modalities in the urban mobility. Drivers • Bicycling, very efficient in the short range, but not so on longer distances, could be re-introduced into daily travel to handle the trip’s end portions, enhancing the effectiveness of other modalities through an additive effect, re-balancing in a cost-effective way the modal mix in favor of micro-mobility and public transport. The state of the art doesn’t allow a collective, pervasive use of the folding bikes in “intermodal duty”, because of excessive weight and volume when collapsed -often exceeding the baggage limits of city bus and metros- discouraging their use out of practicality and safety on board. • The proposed research aims at providing a solution developing a fully engineered, production-ready, new bike typology, based on an innovative concept for a bike frame already tested on mock-ups and working models. The advantage over the state of the art is an unprecedented compactness (factor 6 over common folders) and low weight (factor 3) obtained combining a collapsible, pre-tensioned space-frame with a modern industrial process centered on the use of contemporary engineering plastics. The process innovation will also allow low cost, quality control, opening-closing automation, electric power assistance and last, but not least in a design-conscious world, aestethic value. The work program will develop a new supply-chain, assembling several application-specific know-how modules of mature and well known technologies, all commonly and economically available. • Both direct, project-specific, and extended, broadly applicable results are expected.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Imagine an extremely lightweight bicycle that folds and unfolds and has optional electrical assistance. Researchers have designed this personal vehicle as a pleasurable individual urban mobility tool, to be used in conjunction with all other types of transportation.