In recent years, the disorderly competition in the bike-sharing market has made the supply of bikes oversaturated. Regulatory rules have been introduced to control the scale of delivery, which has led to more and more bikes being idle or abandoned. In response to the concept and original...

Bicycle manufacturing supply chain management is central to providing product and services at the right place, right time, right delivery and right price. The way supply chains are operated has a massive impact on the speed and quality of service that can be provided. Supply chain risks and...

Man has, since early times, conceived in fanciful illusions of a device that would travel on both land and water. Such devices were soon created in the form of bicycles and were in fact patented and constructed with varying degrees of success. Amphibious cycle is a transport that can move on the...

In the current era of Industrial 4.0, open innovation, and the sharing economy, innovation ecosystems are formed through government-industry-university (triple helix) interaction. The concept of responsible innovation has emerged to explore how innovation can be conducted in a transparent,...

Industry 4.0, started in Germany in 2011, was fervently promoted by various advanced countries and followed by the introduction of "smart manufacturing". As an innovative strategy of the manufacturing industry "smart manufacturing" has attracted considerable attention in the field of academics...

Background/Purpose: Bicycles are a popular means of transportation in rural areas, especially among low-income populations, but they are also gaining popularity in metropolitan areas, especially among the fortunate and affluent. The Indian bicycle industry is dominated by roadsters, fancy,...

Objective – This study aims to analyse the current situation of Taiwan's fitness equipment and bicycle industries, to compare their future development. As a result of globalization and the trend of the knowledge economy, patent information can be used to predict the trend of these...

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding the bicycle as a product -- 3. Understanding the market through bicycle statistics -- 4. Marketing the bicycle -- 5. Twenty years of variety marketing in the Italian market: Cannondale 1998–2017 -- 6. Conclusion.

Through a historical analysis of the bicycle industry, this book explores how the bicycle was developed, manufactured and marketed, from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The author highlights the contributions made by the bicycle industry to marketing as it is...

This paper investigates the causes underlying the tragic story of Korea's bicycle industry from what appeared to be as competitive as Taiwan's up until the 1970s to its complete dissolution and collapse. Whereas Taiwan went on to overtake Japan as the world's number one bicycle exporter by 1980,...

Substituting bicycling for driving is frequently promoted as a means of reducing energy consumption and the associated degradation of the environment. This paper estimates the magnitude of this effect. The analysis takes account of the first-order effects due to the dramatically lower energy...

The characteristics of bicycle crashes in cities where bicycles are a minor transport mode have received little attention in road safety research. However, the characteristics of these injury-inflicting bicycle crashes are expected to be very different from those happening in cities where...

"This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the period from 1876 to the beginning of World War I. It looks particularly at the life and career of the industry's most significant personality during this era, Albert Augustus Pope"--Provided by publisher