Bike security

For this endeavour to be properly trialled, you would need to build, or use a readymade secure dedicated bicycle parking space. Unless you rented one, such a project would be hugely expensive.

This then would start and end at the theorem stage. Unless you actually wanted to make a real business out of this, in which case you would want to research how popular a service it would be, and then calculate the investment needed against the returns.

I can't see how this project could be demonstrated for a university project*****. Only as a business.

1. Hypothesis
   
2. Theorem - hypothesis on paper
   
3. Assessment (this questionnaire)
   
4. Plan (use data to guage demand)
   
5. Search for appropriate spaces business could work in
   
6. Seek investment
   
   
   

As a business, I think it could work. Especially if Westminster Council go ahead with charging for motorcycling spaces, thereby getting other councils to look at doing the same thing. Once that happens, it wouldnt take long for councils to charge for bicycle racks. If a private enterprise could give very secure parking for bicycles, at a reasonable cost to the cyclist, I'm sure there would be customers. Especially those that have had bikes stolen in the past, and have not come across this forum, and not learned how best to lock their bikes.

*****But since you are talking about product design, it doesn't actually have to work at all does it?
Designers. Shakes head

Where I work, the architects have placed ceiling lights that require a scaffold to be erected each time one bulb needs to be replaced. 20 man hours for 2 engineers to change one bulb. Thats design. Looks good. Works.........