Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Application Form 2012
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Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Application Form 2012 Please return the Application Form to the Guangzhou Award Secretariat at [email protected] by 30 September 2012. A. Profile of the Initiative Name of City/Community: Kaohsiung City Name of Province/State: Taiwan Name of Country/Region: Republic of China (R.O.C) Geographic Region (Please Africa (Sub-Saharan) select and tick one): Asia and Pacific ■ East and Central Europe North Africa and Middle East North America Latin America & Caribbean Title, name and position of person(s) submitting: 1. 2. 3. Basic City Data: Population size: 2,775,482 Surface Area: 2,947.6159 (km2) Population Density: 942 (people/km2) GDP per capita: NT$13,745 billion Other: (please specify) Kaohsiung, Taiwan's major international gateway, with Dual Port of sea and air, warehousing, logistics, transportation connections, multiple ethnic inclusion, talent incubation and technology R & D center. As the years of public and municipal joint efforts to promote the concept of "urban governance" over the years, has been transformed into a business-driven industrial city, and culture, travel more than green space and sustainable development to become a metropolis, actively continuing to fight traffic, fight ecological, fight life "progressing towards vitality, happiness, comfort marine healthy Cities. B. Background Information: Title of Slogan of the Initiative (25 words max.): Kaohsiung City Public Bike Rental System. Start date of the initiative: March, 2009. Tentative end date of the initiative: Kaohsiung City Public Bike Rental System is ongoing. 1 Thematic area(s): Public Service (Transportation ) / Sustainable City. C. Summary of the origins of the initiative: Describe how the initiative came about and what challenges or issues of sustainable development it is meant to address using the following lead questions as your guide (350 words max). 1. Describe briefly the reason(s) for undertaking initiative including challenge(s) or issues confronting the city/region/community. Include where relevant number of people, enterprises or institutions affected. There are 2.3 million locomotive in Kaohsiung, emissions caused Kaohsiung poor air quality. To coordinate with the Kaohsiung MRT operation, create a healthier life and leisure environment, reduce locomotive air pollutants emissions, and Replace two-stroke motorcycles. Kaohsiung City Government Reference to the city of Paris public bike share plan, and build the first shuttle-public-bike rental system. Expect to change the public's riding habits and reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. 2. Describe the goals of the initiative in terms of desired change or outcome and timeframe for achieving the change or outcome (for example, change in policy, strategy, business model, technology, means of implementation, financing arrangements, measuring and evaluating, etc.) If 40 percent (about 920,000) of locomotive run between Kaohsiung cities converted to take public transportation modes gradually. The shuttle-public-bike rental system could be the role of “last mile” connection, and reduce the city steam locomotive pollution emissions. Set each of the stages are as follows: 1. The first 4 years is build stage, combined with economic incentives to encourage people to ride, and then to cultivate riding habits. In this case the investment is much greater than the income. 2. The 5th to 7th years is Reduce public spending stage: Adjust rates gradually reduce losses. 3. Expect after eight years in private hands, with their business, reduce government spending. List the parties and partners to the initiative (specify public, private, non-governmental, individual, etc.) and who is or was the leading partner(s) and the role they each played. 1. Kaohsiung City Government Environmental Protection Agency: Responsible for tendering plan contract procurement and project execution quality supervision. 2. Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation: Responsible for Public Bike Rental System operations, maintenance (including customer service and allocate vehicles) and marketing and promotion. 3. VSprite Technology Co., Ltd.: Responsible for public bicycle rental system build, the ticket integration (with the Kaohsiung MRT Card ticket card integration) technology development and bus services, cash flow software development. 4. Describe the resources used for implementing the initiative including funding/financing strategy or arrangements and Include any significant contributions that are not in cash, for 2 example, in human, technical or managerial resources. Kaohsiung Public-Bike Rental System built funds roughly from Kaohsiung, Environmental Defense Fund, year by year, gradually investment. Kaohsiung mayor Chen concern that there felt no biking pathways infrastructure is not suitable for riding bike. The city government has its heart set on building and combining the biking pathways throughout the city, which recently has the total length of 500 kilo-meters, awarded third place of Asian top 5 biking friendly cities 2010 by CNN. D. Summary of the innovation for the initiative: Describe the innovation for the initiative using the following lead questions as a guide (350 words max). 1. Describe whether the initiative should be considered evolutionary or revolutionary. Evolutionary would imply that innovation evolved over time based on lessons learned from experience and that the changes or outcomes are cumulative. Revolutionary would imply something quite new or something that has been borrowed from elsewhere but never been tried before in the sector or context in question and therefore bears a certain degree of risk. Kaohsiung Public-Bike Rental System abroad (Paris, Copenhagen, Montreal, Barcelona and Hangzhou) Bike-Sharing plan experience, it’s a revolutionary innovation, and was inspired or borrowed from other experiences and linkage with the other experiences made (Radio Frequency Identification System and Smart Lock). 2. Describe where the innovation is being applied, for example, in policy, strategy, implementation, financing arrangement, technology, governance and administration, planning and design, etc. Applications of Kaohsiung Public-Bike Rental System include: 1. Public policy: Rental station stations planning, land use coordination and made, above mention need more than one unit and co-ordination could be successfully implemented. 2. Economic incentive policy: In the case of the initial site to no more than the low fees to encourage people to use. 3. Scale up economies of rental station: Reference to foreign experience, Rental stations set between 300-500 yards from planning, to reach the goal of "last mile access". 4. Continuous technology integration: Adopted in the Technical planning to reduce the time and cost of the call -. 5. Performance indicators to effectively manage. 6. Technology through the integration of information technology, real-time effective to enhance service quality: With cloud technology, back to the circumstances of the instant rental station call center and allocate vehicles for effective management. 3. Describe whether the innovation was inspired or borrowed from other experiences and how was the linkage with the other experiences made. Similarly, describe whether other parties have benefited or are benefiting from your innovation and how? Kaohsiung Public-Bike Rental System daily Turnover Rate of more than three times. There are four success factors: 3 1. Card integrated with public transport ticket: The successful experience of the reference to the Hangzhou public bicycle, bus cards. So in the end of 2011 with the Kaohsiung MRT card electronic ticket card integration, after the use of the sharp rise. 2. Inexpensive charges: Kaohsiung City Government-owned commission Public-Bike Rental System, less than the size of the economy before launch waive the dues section 1 hour free economic incentives to encourage people to ride. The Taipei Public Bike Rental System also made reference to the city experience launched waive the dues and 30 minutes of free riding rate has increased drastically. 3. Improve the bicycling environment: Learn from Beijing's public bike experience, In addition to the high fees, no perfect biking pathways, and its main missing. Kaohsiung City Government actively built and integrate bicycling environment, biking pathways, to ensure the safety of users. 4. Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation use of promotional resources (advertising in MRT station), to encourage citizens to choose it as a means of transportation. And Cooperation with the Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Fund, provided discount of MRT and Public-Bike two-way transit. 4. Describe whether there was or is any obstacles or resistance to the innovation and if so, how it was or is being overcome. Obstacles: 1. Rental Location applied. 2. Electricity applied. 3. Hard to change People riding habits. Overcome: 1. Constant communication and coordination 2. Invite the power supply unit to survey before confirm the Rental Location. And made decision after confirmed neighboring power supply could supplied energy. 3. Economic incentives to encourage people to ride. E. Summary of the desired change or outcome and how it is being measured Describe how the initiative, and in particular the innovation, is or will be making a qualitative and/or quantitative change and how that change or outcome is being measured (350 words max) 1. What change(s) or outcome have you already achieved or hope to achieve. Please describe the nature of the change