Pedal Power: UC's First Automated Bike-Sharing Program

Sometimes great ideas are born in unlikely places. The inspiration for ZotWheels, UC Irvine's New Bike-Sharing System, came to Ronald Fleming in a Palm Springs-area outlet mall, where the interim director of Parking & Transportation Services had gotten a stroller for his young daughter from a self-serve vending station. It occurred to him: Why couldn't we do this with bicycles?

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