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Bicycles are not generally considered a form of public transport, but the concept has been challenged successfully in the world in the public use of bicycles (pubs). The introduction of smart card in the pub concept was created on "Smart Honda and the bike path to becoming a revolutionary public transport system of the city in the world. Book that will explain the concept of publication of review a pub and talk about current and planned implementation of the Smart Honda.

What is a pub and how it works

The basic principle of the publication is the concept of sustainable transportation. The publication is ideal for urban transport, due to its advantages in other types of transport, as are the following:

- Provides transport demand
- Arrival at destination is not accessible transit
- Requires less than the other mode of transportation infrastructure,
- Is it cheaper to produce and maintain,
- Do not add to congestion - do not create pollution,
- Reduce cycle thefts personal and
- Provide users with the added benefit of exercise.

Another mode of transportation provides many or all of these benefits. A pub is a bike that can be used to meet their transportation needs in an environmentally sound manner. The first is to use an ad to get to their destination, then left the publication in this area for another use. The theory is that a few hundreds or thousands of pubs in the street, it should always be a publication available for use.


Three generations of pubs, with four current generated. To better understand the third and fourth generation of pubs, which is better known as Smart bike, it is important to understand how the pub concept come. Probably 50 cities around the world in bars. Most of these programs exist in Europe, including some of North America and some in Asia. The program is known to the pub under different aliases, such as "city bikes", "free bike" and in a rainbow of colors is painted "White Bicycles", "Yellow Bikes", "Red Bicycle", etc. .
First generation of pubs

The pub concept began in 1968 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as a progressive ideology of a period. Cricket Schimmelpenninck with the government of the city of Amsterdam has launched the "White Honda ad placement in a program of a small number of pubs in the city.

The bars then distributed throughout the city and always clean and cheap transport. Unfortunately, the program is abused. Pubs are not left on the sidewalk, but made his home for private use or thrown into the canals of Amsterdam. Over a decade later, a similar program launched in Milan, Italy, with 1,000 pubs, but not when any of the pubs will be returned to the street after a short period of use.

First generation of pubs

First generation of pubs, like the Dutch program, usually given the widespread use of bicycle market, which is painted in a color output of other bikes. There is no need to pubs should be returned, so we can find a license or be anywhere on the road. The program type of publication often feel free to the user. A group of communities, sometimes with financial support from local government, the program will pub.

In the United States as of summer 2001, the program has about 25 commercials from the first generation. American cities in the first generation includes pubs Portland, OR, Minneapolis / St Paul, MN Boulder, CO; Princeton, Quezon City, and others. The first generation of American pubs are a success, however, bars are stolen from big problems. While the first generation of the publication program is the least expensive to run because most materials and time are given, is the least reliable people.