Bike Sharing System (BSS) recently attracts attention as a way of sustainable transportation. This paper proposes Localized Bike Sharing System(L-BSS), which targets users of common facilities and connects the common facilities to local important places. By this system, while the users enjoy high availability, owners of common facilities can gain profits of reduction of parking lots and illegally left bicycles. In order for launching an L-BSS business, it is necessary to determine essential conditions for implementing L-BSS in a target area such as balancing user demand and supply, span of rebalancing, and composition of users. To determine the conditions, we propose a supporting method for L-BSS planning by using demand estimation based on empirical data and Life Cycle Simulation. In a case study, we confirmed that this method is effective to evaluate business and support policymaking for L-BSS business planning.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the difference of the thermal environment at the outdoor balcony with or without the green curtain, which could be expected to come into wide as a measure of the heat island phenomenon. The actual experiment was carried out for the two classrooms almost as same as the direction, floor and area, and we analyzed measurement data, selecting three days of “Manatsubi” in August, 2013. As a result, the surface temperature of the back side of the green curtain reduced about 4℃, compared with it of the high reflected glass. The difference of surface temperature between with and without the green curtain indicated about 6℃. Because of decrease of the surface temperature, the indoor temperature was also reduced about 2℃ with the green curtain, compared with no curtain. The incident solar radiation reduced more than 80％, and the indoor illuminance reduced more than 30％, at the peak in the daytime with green curtain, compared with no curtain, but the recommended level of illuminance could be maintained in most of daytime.