The rise of dockless bike rentals poses a problem for public spaces, consumer privacy, and puts pressure on the local economy. We designed a concept for a decentralized, autonomous sharing model that could be a responsible alternative to the new wave of bike rentals.

Main sectors: Platform Economies & Service Sharing; Social Economy; Local Economy

Main applications: Public Transportation; Public Utilities

Established in: 2018

URL: https://the-incredible-machine.com/fairbike.html

Organisation: The incredible machine

Organisation type: Companies (for-profit) – Startup

Founders: Leon Van Klaveren

Partners: N/A

Country: Netherlands

City: Rotterdam

Stage of project: Demo

Geographical reach: Local

DLT / Blockchain: N/A

Other technologies: IoT / Smart Appliances / Wearables

Whitepaper: N/A

Github: N/A

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheIncMac

This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.