Sustainable mobility is a goal for several countries. This kind of mobility depends not only on personal motivation but
also on government actions. Encouraging people, particularly children and younger, to raise awareness of the importance
and benefits of using sustainable transport, like bicycles, is crucial to developing a sustainable society. This work
presents the IPBike project, a Portuguese project applied at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. This project aims to
promote the use of sustainable transport in the academic community through a rental bike program. This paper presents
the results of the over three years of the IPBike project, as well as the user’s impressions and suggestions to improve
the project. Moreover, a greenhouse gas emission reduction is estimated, comparing the displacement using bikes or
only by cars. In general, the results achieved are promising to promote sustainable cities and plan the future since the
bikes of the project are constantly rented and the user’s positive feedback, which makes the IPBikes a popular community
asset. Moreover, the results demonstrate a bike-sharing program’s capacity to impact people’s lives, improve their
health, reduce travel expenses, and impact society and the environment. Besides, according to the estimates, the IPBikes
provided a reduction of 7% per year in the greenhouse gases emitted by the users, which means a significant reduction
all over the project implantation.
This work has been supported by FCT-Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope:
UIDB/05757/2020,UIDP/05757/2020 and POSEUR-01-
1407-FC-000010 and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021). Beatriz Flamia
Azevedo is supported by FCT Grant Reference SFRH/BD/07427/2021.
