A whopping 850 cities have a bike share program, conferring health and happiness benefits on city residents. A review of the research shows we'll need those benefits to keep up with city growth
Not everyone who needs transit lives within walking distance of a transit stop. Many, including the elderly, need a little help to get to the bus or train. And, as transit-oriented development drives up real estate prices in many areas, transit access is increasingly becoming an equity issue. Building a network of “Sharing Stops” to expand transit access can increase ridership while also increasing social capital in a neighborhood. Here’s how to get started.
Photo courtesy of VeloMetro. What do you get when you cross an electric bike with a smart car? A Veemo. Designed and built by VeleMetro Mobility, the Veemo is a single-person, electric-assist, solar-powered, networked, enclosed tricycle that will, later this year, be found zipping down the bike lanes around the University of British Columbia and, next year, in Vancouver.
Most U.S. cities are auto-centric. While some of the larger metropolitan areas have robust public transit systems, the car often still reigns supreme. That certainly holds true for smaller, more suburban areas. But bikesharing programs -- along with shared mobility in general -- have been gaining steam over the past few years in the US and beyond. That's why Susan Shaheen and Elliot Martin of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center(TSRC) at the University of California, Berkeley decided to look under the hood to see how bikesharing is impacting urban travel.
Weaver Street Market in Carrboro, North Carolina, a multistakeholder cooperative combining the interests of workers and consumers. Credit: Weaver Street Market.
Images and excerpt from the Sustainist Design Guide: How Sharing, Localism, Connectedness, and Proportionality are Creating a New Agenda for Social Design, by Michiel Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam with The Beach Network. Design: Robin Uleman.
The bicycle is en vogue. Over the past decade, an increasing number of cities around the world have adopted bike-sharing systems — the setup that allows urban dwellers to share bicycles for short-term amounts of time for a fee (think Citi Bike in...
A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes. Most bike kitchens have tools, parts, mechanics, and a community of knowledgeable cyclists.
General Motors has started a bike sharing program at its Technical Center in Warren, Mich. that not only stands to help thousands of employees be more productive and healthier, but is also being viewed internally as a way to start looking beyond the century-old business model of selling one car to one person.
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