Creating a bicycle friendly university

1. Creating a bicycle friendly university [Insert name, affiliation and date here]

3. THE LEAGUE’S MISSION The League promotes bicycling for fun, fitness, and transportation through advocacy and education to build a bicycle-friendly America. PHOTO: ALLAN CRAWFORD

4. OUR GOAL FOR 2025: 5% OF ALL TRIPS BY BIKE 50% + REDUCTION IN SERIOUS CRASHES AND FATALITIES AND MOVING TOWARDS ZERO

5. Providing a Roadmap for a Bicycle Friendly America • Setting targets and options for any place • Benchmarking • Facilitates partnership between advocates & decision makers • Hands-on assistance from staff • Award designation and media promotion

6. Bicycling: a simple solution • Quality of campus life • Reduced parking, transportation and healthcare costs • Congestion reduction • Sustainability • Improved health, happiness and productivity

7. Bicycling: a simple solution “Being able to say to the university, ‘For less than the cost of one deck-parking space, we were able to make all of the roads on campus more bicycle friendly’ was huge.” - Brian Williams, Duke University (Bronze)

8. THE G D LIFE

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14. Growth in Bike Commuting 2000-2011

16. Where people want to live, work and Visit • BFCs always on best places to live, work, study and retire lists. (6 in US News’ latest Top 10) • Mercer Int’l Quality of Life Ranking: 7 of 8 U.S. cities are BFCs • Forbes’ Healthiest Cities 15 of top 20 • Best Places to Ride out the Recession 17 of 20 are BFCs - Businessweek

17. Reaching the Interested but Concerned

18. Strong and Fearless

19. Reaching the Interested but Concerned

20. Interested but concerned

22. What is the bfu program? Four Award levels • Platinum • Gold • Silver • Bronze Program recognizes colleges and universities for bicycle friendliness and provides roadmap and assistance to become better.

23. Application criteria • Engineering • Education • Encouragement • Enforcement • Evaluation & Planning Online application bikeleague.org/university

24. Bike parking - covered, secure - bike lockers - bike station - bike valet • On campus parking permits, faculty and students - extra cost • Connectivity & traffic calming Engineering promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. Portland State University

25. Bike Parking PLUS Engineering promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. Portland State University’s Bike Hub

26. Engineering promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. UC Davis

27. Cost to purchase and install bike racks: $150 to 300 each (parks two bikes) • Cost to purchase and install bike lockers: $1000 to $4000 each (parks two bikes) • Cost to provide car parking space: $2200 surface lot, $12,500 garage • Number of bike spaces in one car space: 10–12 Engineering: Cost of parking promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.

28. Offered students and staff “Clean Air Cash” $90/year not to drive. • Raised the cost of parking by 15% • Invested 4 million in bike facilities • Saved 18 million on building parking structure Stanford Example promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.

29. Program orientation for incoming students • Course Offerings - bike/ped planning - public health • Motorist Training - Campus carshare, campus transit and parking permit training Education promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. University of Colorado Boulder

30. Commuter incentive program • Bike program • Bike Share • Bike Coordinator • On campus bike center • National Bike Challenge Encouragement promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. University of Colorado, Boulder

31. Encouragement: The Cost of an Incentive program • Quality Bike Products (Bloomington, MN): pays out $45,000 to commuters/year as incentive to ride to work. In a three year study, this is what they found… America.

32. promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.

33. Translation • QBP experienced a reduction in their health care costs per member per month of 4.4% in 3 years. = A savings of $60,000 per year in health care costs for the company. = A savings of $2,000 per year in health care costs for each employee. promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.

34. Encouragement *College/University category*

35. Encouragement University of Wisconsin, Madison

36. Bike Registration • Bike theft prevention • Campus police on bikes • Bike safety • Targeted enforcement enforcement promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. Stanford University

37. University of Arizona enforcement

38. Crash reduction • Satisfaction survey • Comprehensive bike plan – consider your campus and the surrounding area • Mode share, RFID technology Evaluation & planning promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America.

39. Application review Applications received and reviewed by : • League staff • External experts • Local cyclists and advocates • 58 BFUs in 30 states

40. Benefits of applying We knew this recognition would be important to our civic and business leaders, and that the metrics set out in the League’s application would be important measures for us.” - Allan Crawford, Bike Long Beach Photo: Allan Crawford

41. Benefits of applying • Feedback • Benchmarking • Coordination of efforts • Recognition

42. Get started Go to: bikeleague.org/university • Use BFU Scorecard for self-assessment • Review the application and resources yourself to see how bicycle-friendly your university is today • Coordinate with your local bicycle advocacy group and contact staff for assistance

43. Online resource library

44. Bring the biking joy

45. [Insert contact info]

46. THANK YOU!