Modular Transportation: Electric Scooter Sharing

Anton Grimes’ entry into the Australian Design Awards competition is a smart twist on the increasingly popular bike sharing idea. He’s created a much more compact system for sharing electric scooters in urban areas.

Grimes explains his design:

The Link scooter system is designed as a modular transport solution that can be retrofitted to existing Streetscape Smart Poles. It allows users to hire a small lightweight electronic scooter from a hub and ride to the desired destination and then return the scooter to another hub, where it is recharged. The use of existing light poles reduces the cost of the unit and provides strong anchors that carry both telecommunications and power to the hub. The device was designed to suit the Sydney 2030 plan to reduce cars in the CBD and make the city more pedestrian oriented.

[via Treehugger]