Public Bikes Schemes in Regional Cities - NTA

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Public Bikes Schemes in Regional Cities

Expressions of Interest for Sponsorship – Public Bikes

The National Transport Authority (the “Authority”), acting on behalf of the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, is developing proposals for the potential introduction of public bike sharing schemes into the cities of Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

The Authority is seeking expressions of interest from commercial entities who may be interested in participating in sponsorship contracts relating to the proposed public bike sharing schemes. It is envisaged that, for an appropriate sponsor, the sponsorship contract for each city would include:

Naming rights to the bike scheme;
Branding/Advertising on the bicycles; and
Branding/Advertising at bike station locations.

For further information the Invitation for expressions of interest for the provision of sponsorship to public bike schemes in the regional cities document is available here.

Completed application forms should be submitted to the National Transport Authority at the address stated in the information document above before 5.00pm on Tuesday 18th December, 2012.



Background Reading – Reports
Summary of Commercial Report
Summary of Technical Report
Commercial Report
Technical Report

Background Reading - Presentations
The Dublin Bike Experience
Technical Report and Potential for Cork
Technical Report and Potential for Waterford
Technical Report and Potential for Limerick
Technical Report and Potential for Galway
Commercial Report Presentation

Gumbo

I believe they are using the Dublin City Council/JCDecaux system as a template as it worked out so well and is one of the most successful systems in europe.

bk

kceire wrote: »

I believe they are using the Dublin City Council/JCDecaux system as a template as it worked out so well and is one of the most successful systems in europe.

It has been very successful, but the downside is that it is relatively expensive to install and maintain.

Cheaper systems have now been developed and are being very successfully used in the US and Canada.

But the biggest reason for it's success in Dublin was that it is basically free. It needs to be the same in Cork, etc. to be just as successful, but the major issue is how do you fund it. The Dublin system was funded by advertising, but the ad market has dried up with the recession.

I hope that the Dublin Bikes card will work in Cork, etc. and vice versa and also that eventually they will all work with Leap card.

galwaycyclist

kceire wrote: »

I believe they are using the Dublin City Council/JCDecaux system as a template as it worked out so well and is one of the most successful systems in europe.

The JC Decaux system is not seen as being a viable model for the other schemes. In Galway a charge per use model is one of the options being considered.

bk

galwaycyclist wrote: »

The JC Decaux system is not seen as being a viable model for the other schemes. In Galway a charge per use model is one of the options being considered.

It will fail so. The reason the Dublin system works so well, because it is free. Charge for it and people won't bother.