Metro Mobility E vs NLR OpenPATH

Metro Mobility is not your average bike share. Our electric bike program allows you to transform your commute with: A) ALL DAY RENTALS - allow you to commute and take trips throughout the day. B) ROUND TRIP RENTALS - mean you can ride to any destination (even if there’s no station nearby), lock to any bike rack or pole, and know your bike will be waiting for the return trip. C) ELECTRIC BIKES - provide added boost with an electric motor to let you ride farther, faster, and sweat free. How MetroShare™ Works: 1. Locate a Hub - Open the app and look for your nearest station location. See how many e-bikes are available at each location in real time. 2. Rent - Scan the QR code on any available e-bike to begin your rental, and it will automatically unlock from the station. 3. Ride - The bike’s electric drive system will make pedaling effortless as you glide past traffic to work or the store. When you arrive, use the built-in cable lock to secure the bike to a rack or pole. It will remain rented until you’re ready to head back (or to your next destination). 4. Return - To end your rental, ride back to the station where the bike was rented and simply plug the station’s ChargeLock cable into the bike. This will end your rental, lock the bike to the station, and begin charging. Download the app now to transform your commute.

The National Laboratory of the Rockies' Open Platform for Agile Trip Heuristics (NLR OpenPATH) enables people to track their travel modes—car, bus, bike, walking, etc.—and measure their associated energy use and carbon footprint. The app empowers communities to understand their travel mode choices and patterns, experiment with options to make them more sustainable, and evaluate the results. Such results can inform effective transportation policy and planning and be used to build more sustainable and accessible cities. NLR OpenPATH informs individual users about the impact of their choices, and also makes aggregated, community-level data on mode shares, trip frequencies, and carbon footprints available via a public dashboard. NLR OpenPATH incorporates continuous data collection and analysis via a smart phone app backed by a server and automated data processing. Its open nature enables transparent data collection and analysis, while allowing it to be configured for individual programs or studies. On first install, the app does not collect or transmit data. Once you click the link or scan the QR code to join a given study or program, you will be asked to consent to data collection and storage before the app begins functioning. If you are not part of a partner community or program but are simply interested in quantifying your individual carbon footprint, you can join the NLR-run open-access study. In the aggregate, your data might be used as the control for experiments run by our partners. At its core, the app represents an automatically sensed travel diary, constructed from background sensed location and accelerometer data. You can annotate the diary with semantic labels as requested by a given program administrator or researcher. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Therefore, the app automatically turns off the GPS if you are not moving. This significantly reduces the battery drain caused by location tracking. The app results in ~ 5% battery drain for up to 3 hours of travel per day.