Japan-wide Bike Share Model Development

Regional Bike Share I need a document that develops a bike share model for a Japan-wide regional bike share. First, I need help to decide what kind of document I need. THEORY - describe how entripy scales in a complex system, and use this to explain why profitability degrades in proportion to the size of a bike share - Use layered system theory (a large system made of many systems working together) to build a regional bike share model. Individual campus bike shares are the layers that all work on the same platform, and the platform covers all of Japan. - Entripy (the tendancy for bike shares to be less profitable the larger they get) can be corrected with the addition of each layer (as each new campus bike share is added to the platform). Because each campus purchases and manages its own bike share, the management of each campus is organic and unique, so the platform will correlate each campus' profitability with its unique points of efficiency. - Each time the platform finds another major point of efficiency, it will integrate that point into how it manages the other bike shares. In this way, each campus added to the platform makes the platform more profitable, and allows the bike share to be scaled as a while, profitably across an area the size of Japan. PURPOSE I work for an electric bicycle in Okinawa Japan which is trying to sell a bike share to the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST). I am coordinating the meetings for December, and OIST just invited me to an Ideathon on December 5th. They asked me to integrate their research into the bike share platform, but because the factory outsources the platform to major cell phone companies, the platform is proprietary. So, I recommended that OIST make their own platform. This will give them many advantages, but creating a bike share platform is expensive. My hope is that I can sell them the idea of a regional bike share for which they own the platform. The more bikes on the platform, the more data they will collect, and if they own the platform then they can expand the bike share to other campuses without having to buy the bikes (if they convince other campuses to also buy a bike share and use their platform to manage it). Part of my pitch will also be that they can design the platform to find points of efficiency from each bike share to integrate into the platform so that in theory, each bike share that is added will make all of the other bike shares more profitable. RESEARCH I don't know what kind of paper will be most appropriate, and because of this, I don't know what research I should do. But I need the paper to describe why a layered system model (a large platform that manages many self-managed campus bike shares as one big bike share network) might be more profitable for a large bike share than if the entire large bike share were designed and managed by a single management. I want the research that goes into the paper to unpack how such a platform might integrate the unique points of effiency in each campus, into the rest of the platform to make the entire platform more profitable.