Download or read book Bicycle Sharing Systems Across the United States of America written by Pan American Health Organization and published by Pan American Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bicycle-sharing system, or "bike share," is a program that distributes and organizes fleets of publicly shared bikes throughout a city or region for users to rent for transportation or recreation. Through single-use fees or membership plans, users are able to access bikes across each system's designated service area. Bicycle-sharing programs have been delivering benefits of increased urban mobility, accessible recreation, and more sustainable transportation in more than 2,000 cities around the world. In the United States of America, bicycle-sharing systems are present within all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Spreading rapidly in a positive trend, expansions of existing bicycle sharing systems and implementation of new systems occur in the United States on a near-monthly basis. The first public bike-sharing system to be developed and implemented within the United States was SmartBike DC in 2008, which was later replaced by the Capital Bikeshare system in 2010. During 2010, four additional systems launched in the cities of Denver, Colorado; Des Moines, Iowa; and Minneapolis, Minnesota and on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. By the end of 2018 there were nearly 250 municipalities (either cities or counties) with active bike-sharing systems that had been implemented within their jurisdictions. This publication summarizes the current landscape of bicycle-sharing systems across various municipalities and jurisdictions in the United States of America. The document is a comprehensive accounting of all presently-implemented systems with at least five stations and/or 20 bikes across the country. PAHO hopes this publication serves as a source of information for policymakers, community leaders, NGOs, and others who may be interested in implementing new bike shares or further developing existing systems. Resources in this document can help identify other cities or municipalities with similar objectives and/or comparable contexts in order to learn from each other's actions, experiences, and challenges.
Download or read book Bike Share written by Elliot Fishman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are now over 2,000 cities with a bike share program. Bike Share examines all the major developments in the 50-year history of bike share. The book provides a detailed focus on contemporary bike share programs, including many of the most prominent systems, such as those in Paris, London, and New York, as well as the rapidly emerging dockless bike share sector. This book also addresses how rapid technological innovation, particularly in terms of mobile internet devices and electric assist bicycles may change the face of not just cycling, but urban mobility more generally. By the end of 2018 it was estimated that there are more than 20 million bicycles in the global bike share fleet, with most of these dockless, coming online only in the last three years. Consequently, research examining bike share has not kept pace with the rapid deployment of this new form of urban mobility. Bike Share addresses a number of key themes such as: The urban age, contextualising bike share within a wider urbanism movement and how it sits within the growing sharing economy. The impact of bike share, looking at systems in China, Europe, North America and Australia to see how these programs have changed travel patterns and consequent impact on car use, emissions, congestion, public health and safety. The bike share business model, including how ride sourcing services like Uber and Lyft are beginning to integrate their business with bike share service providers. Public reaction to bike share. Bike share gone wrong, looking at systems that have failed to achieve their ridership estimates. And the future of bike share including public transport smart card integration, mobile payments, and electric assist bicycles. The book provides scholars, city planners, transportation practitioners and students with a resource that captures the most pertinent scientific findings and practical lessons that have been from bike share programs around the world.
Download or read book Urban Bikeway Design Guide Second Edition written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NACTO's Urban Bikeway Design Guide quickly emerged as the preeminent resource for designing safe, protected bikeways in cities across the United States. It has been completely re-designed with an even more accessible layout. The Guide offers updated graphic profiles for all of its bicycle facilities, a subsection on bicycle boulevard planning and design, and a survey of materials used for green color in bikeways. The Guide continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. It responds to and accelerates innovative street design and practice around the nation.
Download or read book Bike Sharing in the United States written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the introduction of new and more advanced bike sharing programs, and the continued interest and political support for them throughout many U.S. cities, it is important to provide an objective analysis of bike share programs, and to document early lessons learned. This guide is intended to serve as a resource for transportation planning professionals, as well as public officials considering implementation of a bike sharing program. The guide presents a snapshot of current municipal bike share systems where local jurisdictions (including cities, counties, etc.) are engaged in the funding, managing, administering and/or permitting of bike share implementing practices. The objectives of this guide are to: 1. Define bike sharing and provide an overview of the concept. 2. Describe the steps a jurisdiction should take to plan, implement, and sustain a bike share program. 3. Document existing models of provision, infrastructure considerations, and funding options for successfully implementing a bike sharing program. 4. Describe metrics for monitoring and evaluating program success. 5. Provide a baseline documentation of existing bike share programs in the United States in 2012.
Download or read book Cycling and Society written by Dave Horton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the social sciences help us to understand the past, present and potential futures of cycling? This timely international and interdisciplinary collection addresses this question, discussing shifts in cycling practices and attitudes, and opening up important critical spaces for thinking about the prospects for cycling. The book brings together, for the first time, analyses of cycling from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including history, sociology, geography, planning, engineering and technology. The book redresses the past neglect of cycling as a topic for sustained analysis by treating it as a varied and complex practice which matters greatly to contemporary social, cultural and political theory and action. Cycling and Society demonstrates the incredible diversity of contemporary cycling, both within and across cultures. With cycling increasingly promoted as a solution to numerous social problems across a wide range of policy areas in car-dominated societies, this book helps to open up a new field of cycling studies.
Download or read book One Less Car written by Zachary Mooradian Furness and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Download or read book City Cycling written by John Pucher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics. Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children. City Cycling emphasizes that bicycling should not be limited to those who are highly trained, extremely fit, and daring enough to battle traffic on busy roads. The chapters describe ways to make city cycling feasible, convenient, and safe for commutes to work and school, shopping trips, visits, and other daily transportation needs. The book also offers detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments: small cities (including Davis, California, and Delft, the Netherlands), large cities (including Sydney, Chicago, Toronto and Berlin), and “megacities” (London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo). These chapters offer a closer look at how cities both with and without historical cycling cultures have developed cycling programs over time. The book makes clear that successful promotion of city cycling depends on coordinating infrastructure, programs, and government policies.
Download or read book Sustainable Urbanisation written by Adriana Allen and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Active Balancing of Bike Sharing Systems written by Jan Brinkmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on an operational management approach to improving bike-sharing systems by compensating for fluctuating demand patterns. The aim is to redistribute bikes within the system, allowing it to be “actively” balanced. The book describes a mathematical model, as well as data-driven and simulation-based approaches. Further, it shows how these elements can be combined in a decision-making support system for service providers. In closing, the book uses real-world data to evaluate the method developed and demonstrates that it can successfully anticipate changes in demand, thus supporting efficient scheduling of transport vehicles to manually relocate bikes between stations.
Download or read book Exploring the Relationship of Bikeshare and Transit in the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bicycling and bike-share have been growing in US cities as transportation alternatives. Despite impressions that bikeshare systems exist solely for tourism, recreation or privileged users, research has shown that bike-share is becoming a transportation mode used by a diverse set of users for various transportation needs. Additionally, a positive relationship has been established between bike-share and transit although most studies on this matter have focused on systems outside the United States. Bike share and transit benefit each other by: (1) contributing to sustainable transportation goals by improving mobility and greenhouse gas reductions, (2) solving the “last mile” problem, (3) reduce overcrowding at a fraction of traditional capacity capital investments, and (4) extending the radius of influence of mass transit stations. While synergy between cycling and transit systems has been documented, the influence of bike-share and transit has been less covered. This study uses data gathered from 10 US cities to describe the effects bikeshare and transit have on each other. This project will explore the factors that are associated with increased bikeshare trips based on sociodemographic, built environment, and transit system characteristics and the magnitude of the effect of bikeshare on rail rapid transit boardings. Ultimately, it is of interest to address whether bikeshare linked to rapid rail transit stations has greater usage rates.
Download or read book Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation written by Aaron Golub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important role in neighborhood transformations. However, despite stereotypes, the cycling public is actually quite diverse, with the greatest share falling into the lowest income categories. Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation demonstrates that for those with privilege, bicycling can be liberatory, a lifestyle choice, whereas for those surviving at the margins, cycling is not a choice, but an often oppressive necessity. Ignoring these "invisible" cyclists skews bicycle improvements towards those with choices. This book argues that it is vital to contextualize bicycling within a broader social justice framework if investments are to serve all street users equitably. "Bicycle justice" is an inclusionary social movement based on furthering material equity and the recognition that qualitative differences matter. This book illustrates equitable bicycle advocacy, policy and planning. In synthesizing the projects of critical cultural studies, transportation justice and planning, the book reveals the relevance of social justice to public and community-driven investments in cycling. This book will interest professionals, advocates, academics and students in the fields of transportation planning, urban planning, community development, urban geography, sociology and policy.
Download or read book Shared Mobility written by Junfeng Jiao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years. While most studies investigate shared mobility services and transportation piecemeal by city, mode, or company, this book focuses on transportation network companies themselves, highlighting shared bikes and E-scooters. Sections cover how they perform at the local or regional level in an effort to help governments better plan and regulate these emerging services. Shared Mobility explores the opportunities and challenges in these new systems and provides a thorough and succinct reference text for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of transportation planning, transportation engineering, and urban planning. - Examines data collected from the author's extensive multi-year lab study on shared mobility and transportation - Offers a detailed quantitative analysis of shared mobility activities and their impacts on people and cities - Explores the interactions between shared mobility modes and policy outcomes
Download or read book National Air Quality written by Joseph DiSano and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work summarizes the most recent evaluation of the status and trends in our nation's air quality. The book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.
Download or read book Understanding Bicycle Sharing Systems written by Seyed Ahmadreza Faghih Imani and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bicycle-sharing system (BSS) is a public transportation service in which bicycles are available for renting within a service area for a short period of time. Many benefits of BSS have led to their growth around the world recently. However, due to the relatively recent adoption of BSS, there is very little research exploring how people consider these systems within the existing transportation alternatives. Further, it is of substantial interest for transportation professionals to identify contributing factors to the BSS demand. The objective of this dissertation is to examine BSS from both system and user perspectives to provide useful insights on how these innovative public systems influence the urban transportation. The BSS analyzed are from three North American cities: Montreal, Chicago, and New York City. Within the systems perspective, the dissertation addresses three research questions. First, the research quantifies the influence of meteorological data, temporal characteristics, bicycle infrastructure, land use and built environment attributes on BSS usage at the station level using multilevel linear mixed modeling approach. Second, the dissertation explores the presence of spatial and temporal correlations across BSS usage dimensions by developing panel spatial error and panel spatial lag models. Finally, the dissertation examines the influence of BSS infrastructure installation decision endogeneity on the "true" impact of BSS infrastructure on BSS usage through the development of a joint multi-level mixed model.In terms of user perspective, the dissertation studies BSS behavior at a trip level to examine bicyclists' destination preferences. Specifically, the decision process involved in identifying destination locations after picking up a bicycle at a BSS station is studied. The analyses are presented in two chapters. First, a random utility maximization approach is developed that assumes an individual who picks up a bicycle at one of the stations makes destination station choice based on a host of attributes including individual's characteristics, time of the day, and destination station attributes. Second, in order to account for BSS trips heterogeneity, an advanced model that probabilistically assigns trips to different segments and estimates segment-specific destination choice models for each segment is proposed. This model can also consider the effect of fixed attributes across destinations such as users or origins attributes in the decision process.The dissertation also investigates the influence of sample size on system and user perspectives models by evaluating the impact of sample size on model estimates, inference measures, and predictive performance. The analyses show that the impact of sample size on parameters estimated is stronger than that of the impact on prediction performance. Overall, the dissertation results present several interesting findings including the distinct travel behavior of annual members compared to users with temporary passes, the use of BSS for the daily commute to and from work, and the distinguished travel patterns for BSS in weekends. The results also highlight the importance of BSS system attributes such as stations' capacity and location." --
Download or read book Bicycle Diaries written by David Byrne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto." The Guardian A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads David Byrne--who has relied on a bike to get around New York City since the early 1980s--relates his adventures as he pedals through and engages with some of the world's major cities. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, he meets a range of people both famous and ordinary, shares his thoughts on art, fashion, music, globalization, and the ways that many places are becoming more bike-friendly. Bicycle Diaries is an adventure on two wheels conveyed with humor, curiosity, and humanity.
Download or read book The Big Book Of Bike Sharing System written by Slyvia Lafontain and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone can be a regular bike commuter. Some folks live too far from work, some have erratic schedules, some would have to traverse dangerous roads or brave adverse weather conditions, and others - including yours truly - work out of a home office. But even if you don't bike to work, you can still bike regularly. In fact, it can be a singular source of pleasure - few things in life beat whooshing down a hill with the wind in your hair. Biking is also part of a healthy, happy lifestyle. According to the state government of Victoria, Australia, the benefits of regular biking include stronger bones, more flexible joints, lower stress and anxiety levels, lower body fat levels, and better cardiovascular fitness in general. In this Bicycle Sharing System book, you will discover: - INTRODUCTION - 1. History of Public Bicycle Systems - 2. Inception - 3. System Design - 4. Hardware - 5. Information Technology Systems - 6. System Planning - 7. Location Planning - 8. Organizational Structure - 9. Business Model - 10. Operator - And so much more! If you are starting a new bike-sharing service or just need to know more, this book is well worth the read and to keep as a reference.
Download or read book Bike Battles written by James Longhurst and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg
