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1. WABA’s Online Bicycle Commuter Assistance Program Eric GillilandWashington Area Bicyclist Associationgill@waba.orgwww.waba.org
2. Program Overview Funded by EPA and Arlington County VA
Reduce mobile source emissions by promoting bike commuting
Provide routing information and helpful tipson commuting
Link new commuters with experienced commuters
Expand on-line presence of WABA
3. 2001 Technology Conflict btw vision and technology
GIS still relatively new
Standardization issues of data sets
4. The Results Commuter mentors posted online
Trail information
Bike shops
Transit locations
5. WABA’ Commuter Assistance Program
6. The Problems Data storage, web servers
Dial up vs high speed access
Lack of bike data
Print vs Web
7. 2006 Technology GIS, BLOS
BikeMetro.com
Google and Yahoo Maps
Bringing the masses to the technology