Year: 2002 - 2009

Clear Channel Smart Bike; A smarter solution to city transport. In today's urban environment, developing integrated transport strategies and reducing the number of cars on the street are critical issues worldwide. Addressing the problems of traffic congestion and pollution, Clear Channel and Frost Produkt has developed an innovative bicycle borrowing scheme suitable for use in cities across the globe.

The project included the development of bicycles, bicycle lights, locking mechanism, user interface, foundation principle, bicycle transportation vehicle and maintenance tools. The product specification was to develop a modular bicycle system that had good resistance to vandalism, resist different climatic conditions, easy maintainable and fast and cost effective installation in varied terrain and surfaces.

Frost Produkt was also project manager for the implementation of the finished systems from foundation to final assembly in the cities of Oslo, Trondheim, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Barcelona. Clear Channel has taken over the operation and start-up responsibility based on knowledge transfer from Frost Produkt and established the Smart Bike city bike system in another 15 cities across the world.

Photos by Marius Ektvedt