With the Campus Card, teachers and students in Tongji University can borrow a public bike to travel on the campus in a green and low-carbon way. On September 6, the day when the newcomers of the year came to school, Tongji launched 200 retrofitted bikes on Siping Lu Campus for students to borrow, generating a new landscape on the campus.
On the campus of universities, it is common to see broken bikes without owners occupying public space for long and influencing campus traffic. How to handle these broken bikes has become a big difficulty for the universities.
In summer vacation this year, the Administrative Office, the Youth League, the Students’ Union, Postgraduates Union, Logistics Group and the Security Office of Tongji University, conducted a thorough survey and evaluation on Siping Lu Campus and advocated the faculty and students to walk and ride bikes on the campus. A number of broken bikes with no owners were announced to the public following the legal procedure. Broken bikes with no owners to claim were retrofitted and turned into school bikes for the students and teachers to freely borrow. These bikes have been painted into green, each marked with a logo as “Tongji Bike for Public Good” and bearing a unique code.
To facilitate the users, Tongji set up three spots, one in front of the library, one in front of Xiyuan Canteen, and one in front of Xibei Canteen on Siping Lu Campus for teachers and students to borrow and return from 8:30 am to 16:30 pm every day. With their personal Campus Card, the users can borrow one bike for free for use on the campus only. The bike shall be returned to any one of the three places on the borrowing day.
The Security Office of Tongji is responsible for security supervision and coordination of these bikes; the Logistics Group is responsible for daily maintenance of these bikes; the Youth League is responsible for guiding the Students’ Union and the Postgraduates’ Union to set up students’ teams to conduct daily management and data analysis of the bikes’ borrowing and returning.
As learned, based on the pilot program of the first batch of bikes for public good, Tongji University is to retrofit more broken bikes on the campus and arrange more places for borrowing and returning to facilitate traffic on the campus. The program is to be promoted to other campus of the university as well.