Concept Ideas

Commute Calculator

To promote commuting by bicycle, we have to show students how beneficial it can be to the environment, the community, and most importantly, how much time and money they personally spend on getting to and from work or school. While students do care about the environmental effects of commuting by car, bus, or train, they probably don’t care about those factors as they do about ones that affect them directly and immediately.

The “Commute Calculator” would ask each student to roughly calculate how much time or money they spend each day when commuting by car or public transportation. After totalling up the costs of things like gas, parking, or bus fare, students will see how much they spend daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly on their current commute style. Then we will compare these prices to what it would if the student were to buy a bike today and use it for the said amounts of time.

In addition to cost, we could calculate the amount of time a student’s commute takes on average, when adding up things like traffic, bus delays, or time it takes to find parking. We could then use google maps to get a rough estimate of how long it would take to commute by bicycle, because it would often take less time!

After comparing the student’s current commute vs. commuting by bicycle, we could then talk to the student more about how commuting by bike is more energy efficient and better for the environment. 

Bike Game Show

“The Bike is right”

This idea of a bike show would help put in perspective of how it much it really cost to own a bicycle. The player would get a image of a bicycle or parts and would have to guess the price. These guesses can range from how much a replacement tire would cost to the price used bike. Having a comparison of how much it would cost for cars to bicycles would strengthen the idea of how cost effective cycling is. There can be an incentive for guessing close to the actual price.

      This idea can also be implemented to interactive wall. This would be done having images parts placed on a wall and having a flip down to reveal the actual price. This would inform people walking around the space.

 
  

PEDAL POWER TRIVIA

San Francisco State is a huge commuter school which means majority of the students takes public transportation. People drive by themselves all the time, which is a big problem because of all the emissions that are going to the ozone. We need to get the knowledge out to students about how biking to school is great on saving money but also saves the Earth.

The pedal power trivia, is a game that would test people’s knowledge about the cost of them owning/using a car vs. owning/using a Bike along with bike affordability.

The theme Pedal Power fits perfectly into this game because it requires contestants to crank the pedal to cause the game wheels on to move. The way we would display the game show wheels would be on a old bike that we may find. Using that old bike we can somehow get the pedal to power both wheels so they can both spin simultaneously. One wheel would contain letters and the other would contain numbers. Whichever both number and letter the wheel spins to. This determines the question you would get from the trivia board. The Trivia board would be made in a grid style labeled with either numbers or letters along the X and Y axis, which can be made up from cardboard or even cork board. On the each pin point on the grid will contain a question in which the contestant will be asked to answer, if answered wrong they will be given the correct answer for knowledge along with a possible consolation prize. Although if the contestant answers correctly they can either walk away with a small prize or keep going to win a bigger prize. I was thinking of creating a prize level indicator using a bike that follows a road for visuals to show the contestant what prize level they would be at.