We are looking for fact sheets or information to share with schools and others about the impact of bike racks that may be motivational. Such as if you install bike rack/# of bike parking spaces, you will reduce carbon from cars by, or increase by X the number of folks/kids that will bike. This can include health impacts, studying or grade impacts too, but we are really focused on the carbon reduction.
Thanks,
Rebecca Gomez
City of Minneapolis
Bike Walk Ambassador Program
United States
bikewalktwincities.org
Installing Bike Parking at Schools and the Impact on Student Behavior
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Oops, the website:
www.cleanairchampions.ca
David Chernushenko
Living Lightly Productions
Canada
www.livinglightly.ca
I just found some information about additional bike use and increase in ridership at the following location. I am sure you can contact them to find out exactly how much ridership was increase based upon the increase of racks.http://www.civitas-initiative.org/measure_sheet.phtml?lan=en&id=127
Kaye Johnston
United States
If you have all students details you could map them geographically to estimate a percentage of students that live within a rideable distance. At Monash University, Australia, this was a large part of analysing barriers to riding.
jeremy settle
Australia
Hi Jeremy,
Do you have a reference to this study that you mentioned on this thread. We would like to propose a cbsm pilot in some neighbourhoods around an inaugural promotion ride we are planning and would like to see the preliminary research on barriers and predicted outcomes to proposed interventions.
Gary Beaton
Calgary tour de nuit Society
Canada
www.morepeoplecycling.ca
We have calculated the green house emissions saved through riding to school - http://www.bv.com.au/ride2school/41833/. You can also calculate the green house emissions saved using links on this page - http://www.bv.com.au/ride-to-work/30228/.
We have found that introducing secure covered bike parking at a Primary School results in a 50% increase in cyclists overnight. We do not have a flyer or webpage on this unfortunately.
Marissa Dewan
Bicycle Victoria
Australia
The type of bike rack is important to the success of all bike rack installations. The inverted U racks provide secure locking and stable two point contact. There are lots of rack designs that are less secure and some are referred to as wheel benders.
Archie Phillips
Architect
University of Utah
United States
www.utah.edu
You may want to look at the website of the Canadian group Clean Air Champions, notably their Clean Air Achievers program.
Regards,
David Chernushenko, co-founder of Clean Air Champions and current board member
David Chernushenko
David
Living Lightly Productions
Canada
www.livinglightly.ca