The Problem:
The inability to park and get around the campus and surrounding areas at University of Florida. UF has limited parking for cars, the buses are crowed and slow, scooters are expensive and dangerous, and sometimes where you want to go is too far to walk.
The solution:
Copy the platform of Ubers’ JUMP, Lime, and Bird and bring electric razor scooters to UF’s campus and surrounding areas. The product I would be selling is like that of ride sharing. You would download the application onto your mobile device. The app will tell you where scooters are around campus. When a student picks up a scooter to ride they will be billed per minute. Where ever the final destination is they would typically just leave the scooter on the side walk parked. There would be staff that will go around at various times of the day to collect scooters and bring them to hot spot locations where students typically need the scooters. All scooters come equipped with tracking devices and when they are not found by the attendant looking for them they will sound an alarm. This is a valid solution because it is easy, affordable, fun, and safe. Additionally, the electric razor scooters have worked in places like Austin, Nashville, and Seattle.
Hi Emily,
ReplyDeleteI think your idea is very cool and very much needed in the UF area. In many big cities there are stands in which you can lock and park the scooters when done using them. So you could put a stand that holds say 10 scooters around major areas in Gainesville. Many of these apps follow the deposit based insurance. Such as, paying 100$ when you swipe your card, which insures that people will actually return the scooters. I hope you found this useful, awesome job!
Sincerely,
Ayla
Hi Emily:
ReplyDeleteI like your solution very much, it has some example to let us know that the app will look like and how it will function. According to your description this app it more useful to the local people especially the students who go to the UF, so it has a very specific customer. I think it may not be a bad thing since if it works in this university, it can also work in other schools, that could be a future development for this app. Excellent!
Hey Emily. I have used this platform of scooters in many cities and I love it. It is an easy and quick form on transportation. I think that this could change college towns across America. College students usually do not have to travel very far for class, but it is still often too far too walk. These scooters could solve the traffic and parking problem that UF has.
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