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Bicycle Dashboard Navigation unit

prototype of the on-board navigation unit

Clean Link

physical navigation tool & mobile app feature

'JOINING THE DATA'

04/04/2016-09/05/2016

Promotional video demonstrating how Dublin Bike: Clean Link as a product can be used to assist cyclists to take healthier routes.

Joining the Data was a five week industry lead brief exploring the issues and opportunities surrounding air quality. Industry partners were the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and Intel Ireland. Supplied with access to the EPA’s national ambient air quality monitoring network, our class was given a chance to work with a real-world dataset.

 

The outcome of our designs were particularly focused on: 

  1. Encouraging citizens to engage with the data.

  2. Making the data meaningful to the people with the hope of…..

  3. Empowering citizens to look for information and take action in maintaining/achieving a high standard of air in Ireland. 

 

After a 2 week research period, our team decided to design for inner city cyclist. How might we encoourafe cyclists to be more conscious of air pollution? Cyclists are the most vulnerable road users to air pollutants. Using the EPA's data set, our design will inform members of the public of areas of good quality air and poor quality air through city bike schemes. This information will encourage cyclists take cleaner and healthier routes when commuting in the city. 

 

We would like to present Clean Link. We invisaged in the future a re-evaluation of the Dublin Bike service. In this next iteration their is the potential to incorperate Clean Link into the system.

 

Based on the EPA's data, Clean Link is both a navigational tool and mobile app feature to encourage cyclists to take cleaner and healthier routes.

Mobile App Feature

high-fidelity click through prototype 

There are two components to the Clean Link system: the physical navigation tool located on the dashboard of the bicycle and the mobile app feature for plotting cleaner routes.

 

When the bicycle is dispensed from the station lock, the users chosen route within the app is synced with the onboard navigational indicators via bluetooth. The bicycle links with the GPS system on the mobile device and thus the user is guided to their destination.

 

In the event that a turn is missed or a wrong turn is taken, the on-board system simply notifies the cyclists of the change in route and adapts the navigation indictators.

 

The tool empowers cycists to make healither choices in a seamless manner. Engagement with the EPA's data gives users the chance to learn about ambient air quality and opens a discussion on the condition of the cities air.

The Clean Link mobile app feature would be incorperated into the revised Dublin Bike application. The Clean Link feature allows users to plot their route from station to station before dispensing a bicycle from the station. When the destination is decided upon on the map, 2 routes are displaye the fastest route and the cleanest route based on the real-time data supplied by the EPA. The app saves favourited routes and most frequently used routes allowing for a fast and efficent service.

 

New swipe technology allows the cyclist to dispense the bicycle using the app's unlock bike feature. Simply swipe your phone over the bollard holding the bike and you are on your journey.

App feature click through

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