http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=16818Boulder, CO -- The Intrago (pronounced Intra-Go) Corporation, together with the University of Washington and other partners, has been awarded funding for a shared electric vehicle system at the university's Seattle campus. This system was funded by the Washington State Department of Transportation through a program that fosters innovation to help reduce automobile trips into congested areas such as urban university campuses.
The campus network of self-rental electric bicycles will enhance mobility for students, faculty and staff that arrive to campus using alternative transportation and aims to reduce the number of automobile commute trips in the region.
"We're very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Intrago to bring this innovative project to our campus. This new form of on-demand personal mobility will add a significant enhancement to our award-winning U-Pass program. We anticipate this added incentive to further reduce the number of cars coming to campus each day as well as reduce car and truck use within our campus," stated Joshua Kavanagh, Director of Transportation Services, University of Washington.
Intrago is addressing the unmet need for on-demand personal mobility that is clean, right-sized and enjoyable to use for short-distance trips around campuses like the University of Washington, as well as corporate campuses, vacation destinations and high-density urban and public transit locations. The company's automated rental and management systems enable users to unlock and start any electric-powered vehicle, or unlock any bicycle in the system with their personal Intrago GoKey™. Users may select any vehicle at a station and then return it to the same or a different location.
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