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If CaBi does this, it's Metro's free parking at outer stations all over. Lure people in with a cheap promise and when the program becomes a success, start wrangling money out of people. If stations are heavily used, this is a sign of success and capacity should be added. Not necessarily on that station, perhaps on the next corner. People did not pay for limited bikes. They paid for access to the bikes.

Finally, if you want to give people an incentive to rebalance, give them credit for taking bikes from (almost) full stations and bringing bikes to (almost) empty stations. For instance, give people $0.50 for each of those actions. You can even add the stipulation that the credit only applies to charges, and can not be cashed out. Almost full or empty can be defined as in three or less spots/bikes left, so the deal becomes system wide and completely dependent upon circumstances.

by Jasper on Jun 6, 2011 3:27 pm • link • report

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