Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan

Tokyo so crowded that want to find a place to stop bicycles are worried about, but also the Japanese could come up with such a creative genius to solve the shortage of space for this growing problem. ECO-Cycle Park is a fully automated building bicycle storage system 11 meters underground at the street, it can accommodate 200 bicycles.

Although Japan is one of the leading automobile manufacturing countries in the world, and its public transport system is perhaps the world's most advanced, but the bike is still a means of transport the more crowded cities by the people welcome. Unfortunately, the parking space in this country, "a small place," said the particularly valuable, bike owners often had to be parked on the sidewalk, so give pedestrians inconvenience. To solve this problem, Japanese specializing in tidal and flood control systems technology company Giken Seisakusho developed out of this underground bike parking system, bike store takes only 8 seconds to go. Cylindrical structure buried in the ground only seven meters wide, but deep enough to accommodate each cylinder sub-200 two-wheel bike.

Cyclists need to pay a monthly fee in order to get personal car card ECO-Cycle parking. No matter where it is, whenever you want to stop, the only thing they do is put a bicycle parked on the parking ground between (like a newsstand same) door, credit card, robots vise car, then the door opens automatically, bike go, disappear underground in . The whole process takes 8 seconds to get back as fast bike. Since 2010 the port of Tokyo Southern Star Park implement this park system, this area illegally parked bicycle disappeared.

Giken Company R & D department head underground Shotaro Yano advantage when it comes to ECO-Cycle, said: "steel into the ground to form a cylindrical structure, then the soil carried away in the middle of two months to complete the construction of a system due. soil pressure is evenly distributed (as cylindrical structure), so this parking facility have a very strong seismic capacity. means of transport is the bicycle in the center of the cylinder, the distance can be reduced to the smallest movement of the bicycle. "a the entire underground parking system takes 1.5 billion yen ($ 1.5 million), is currently in the whole of Japan 16 different areas, including currently under construction, a total of 43 sets of ECO-Cycle parking systems.