Student Work

Cycling Without Age (CWA), a non-profit organization with the goal of aiding the elderly, sells and distributes trishaws to their community and customers/chapters. Trishaws are cycles with a carriage in the front for passengers to sit. A challenge to CWA is that trishaws are not affordable in the Global South. A sustainable, open-source business model and a test of that business model were created to help CWA address this problem. These outline how CWA locations can choose available trishaw designs to build locally through different open-source options, based on the resources available to them.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Wade, Bryce Luke
• Chea, Johnny K.
• Messey, Sydney E.
• Kuhnle, Caroline A.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051320-172845

Keyword

• Social Studies of Science and Technology

Advisor

• Hansen, Peter H.
• Bursten, Bruce

Year

• 2020

Center

• Copenhagen, Denmark Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Cycling Without Age

Date created

• 2020-05-13

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Relationships

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• Interactive Qualifying Projects

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	Creating_a_Sustainable_Business_Model_for_Open-Source_Trishaw_Designs.pdf	Public		Press to Select an action Download
	Creating_a_Sustainable_Business_Model_for_Open-Source_Trishaw_Designs_Presentation_Recording.mp4	Public		Press to Select an action Download
	Creating_a_Sustainable_Business_Model_for__Open-Source_Trishaw_Designs_Poster.pdf	Public		Press to Select an action Download