The bike share systems require lots of managment and inventory maintenance and balancing. Certain stations get swamped with bikes at the end of every day, and other stations are stripped of bikes. Vans have to collect the surplus and re-allocate them to the poor inventory sites. Not that difficult, but it takes real time cloud inventory data.
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Bike share in NYC gets off to poor start due to software failure
Read about the re-birth (after a bad birth) of the NYC system here on ABC News
The bike share systems require lots of managment and inventory maintenance and balancing. Certain stations get swamped with bikes at the end of every day, and other stations are stripped of bikes. Vans have to collect the surplus and re-allocate them to the poor inventory sites. Not that difficult, but it takes real time cloud inventory data.
Go bikes!
BIKE NYC and CLE share bad real estate mafia
Thanks Jeff - so far, CLE and NYC bike rollout is almost a disaster by design. What do banks have to do with bikes, anyway? hmmm
https://www.citibikenyc.com/