bike advocacy, bicycle tour, bicycle safety

  

Pedicab (Rickshaw):
A Taxi Without An Attitude

  

 

 


WE WOULD LOVE
YOUR SUPPORT!
Our content is
provide to free
as a public service!


Follow us on Twitter

  

blue bar

Hardly forming a tidal wave of clean quiet collective transportation, pedicabs (rickshaws, trishaws, cyclos, cycle-rickshaws, bike-taxis, human powered taxis) have found their way into the travel mix of a number of communities. For those who would like to introduce them in their hometowns we have collected a little information about the industry.

At the University of Oregon there is a service that uses tandem and triplet bikes to escort people at night ("Tandem Taxi").  This is a free service operating out of the University's Public Safety Dept.

Most of the other pedicab businesses, outside of developing nations, are seasonal. Following the pattern of the tourist trade and special events.

Pedicab/Rickshaw Manufacturers

Starting a Pedicab Taxi Company

Directory of Pedicab Transportation Service (Taxi) Companies Worldwide directory

Rickshaw Forum The directory section has a lot of links.

Pedicab Links: Regulatory Resources, History, Styles, Code of Conduct, etc.

Pedicab News: Pedicab news feeds from around the world.

"Rikscha - Rickscha" shows rickshaws in the Asian experience.

Forming a Pedicab Association.

Chasing Rickshaws (Lonely Planet Pictorial Series), by Tony Wheeler and Richard I'anson, contains interesting history and lovely images of pedicabs in Agra, Calcutta, Hanoi, Macau, Penang, Singapore, Beijing, Dhaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Rangoon and Yogykarta.

 

Starting a Pedicab Taxi Company

  • Skyline Pedicabs, Ontario CA, has included on it web site a business models and some interesting examples of how it has been able to expand its market. Email: info @ skylinepedicab.com *. Tel: 909-702-5322.
  • Pops Pedicabs, Ramona, CA. Email: pops @popspedicabs.com *.  Tel: 760-799-4416. Website has list to "Pedicab Resources" for people interested in the business, in the links section.
  • Big Tree Pedicab Management provide training and consulting for the pedicab industry.
  • Some company owners, who are not in your area and feel like you would be a competitor, are willing to share their experiences.  You will have to contact them and see.

If you have additional information about Pedicabs please let us know so we can add it to our files.

More Information on Working Bikes
 
 

Home | About Us | Contact Us | Contributions | Economics | Education | Encouragement | Engineering | Environment | Bibliography | Essay Contest | Ibike Tours | Library | Links | Site Map | Search

The International Bicycle Fund is an independent, non-profit organization. Its primary purpose is to promote bicycle transportation. Most IBF projects and activities fall into one of  four categories: planning and engineering, safety education, economic development assistance and promoting international understanding. IBF's objective is to create a sustainable, people-friendly environment by creating opportunities of the highest practicable quality for bicycle transportation. IBF is funded by private donation. Contributions are always welcome and are U.S. tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Please write if you have questions, comment, criticism, praise or additional information for us, to report bad links, or if you would like to be added to IBF's mailing list. (Also let us know how you found this site.)

"Hosted by ThinkHost - earth friendly web hosting"
Created by David Mozer.
Copyright © 1995-2009 International Bicycle Fund. All rights reserved.