The South East of Scotland Transport Partnership is launching a regional e-bike program; GO e-Bike with the aim of increasing usage and awareness of power assisted cycling across the South East of Scotland and beyond. GO e-Bikes launches with 5 different projects in St. Andrew’s, Buckhaven, West Lothian and Falkirk and will also be encouraging employers to get involved with a ‘Try a GO e-Bike Roadshow’. GO e-Bike aims to promote a healthier more active population, reduce inequalities in our communities and improve our environment.

1. The development of a regional bike sharing scheme
South East of Scotland Transport Partnership
April 2018

2. Ambition
Use South East of Scotland
Transport Partnership grant
funding to deliver more
sustainable and active
outcomes for the people
and communities of our
region.

3. Background
Through its Programme for Government 2017/18 the
Scottish Government is ‘stepping up promotion of the
use of electric bicycles to ensure as many people as
possible can benefit from active travel’.
SEStran is helping to deliver on this vision with
support from European programme funding by
SHARE-North, Interreg North Sea Region.
Active travel key segment of the Regional Transport
Strategy
Aim to promote a healthier more active population,
reduce inequalities in our communities and improve
our environment.
government.

4. Process
SEStran grant funding is supporting the programme
with Bike Plus as the project delivery partner.
Bikes and support infrastructure will be provided
based on an assessment of the requirements of the
proposed host venue.
Ongoing maintenance will be provided for each GO e-
Bike hub.
Host venues will be required to insure the equipment
and ensure user safety. SEStran is happy to help with
cycle awareness training.
Host venues will agree to help promote GO e-Bike
and contribute to research.

5. Process
The hubs will be developed with local community
organisations, charities and academic institutions.
There should be a social or community benefit
provided. Not commercial enterprises, the aim is not
to fund start up business.
Membership schemes and sponsorship would be
encouraged with any revenue put back into the hub
to help with maintenance costs and helping deliver
long term sustainability.
Measure impacts and results to understand what
works and what doesn’t. Develop a regional picture.

6. Our Living Labs
1. St. Andrews University – University staff shuttle
between campuses and railway station
2. West Lothian Bike Library
3. CLEAR Buckhaven - tackling transport poverty
4. Forth Valley Links – Develop links between
stations and communities
After the initial 4 hubs are running invitations for
additional locations will be invited in 2018.
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7. Unique branding
Engaging
Links to electricity
Easy to understand
A ‘Movement’ Promotes sustainability
Progressive
Bike focussed – Active travel

8. 2018 Timeline
January February March April May
Development of 4 initial hubs Launch of GO e-Bike First 4 Living Lab
hubs go live.
Purchase equipment
May June July August September
Development next stage hubs
Purchase equipment

9. To find out more and to see if your organisation might be suitable as a
GO e-Bike hub please contact us at: www.sestran.gov.uk

10. What can e-bikes achieve?
Chris Slade, Bikeplus
@Bikeplusbike

11. Are e-bikes cheating?
Norwewgian
Study (2018)
concludes
physical
exertion is
spent 95% of
time using an
e-bike

12. Are e-bikes typically for one demographic?
Source: Age profile
of Shared Electric
Bike Programme
riders compared
with Census data

13. Reasons for choosing an e-bike

14. The gateway drug to cycling?
• E-bike ‘smile’ and permanent tailwind
• Longer trips by bike
• Hilly trips
• Allowing shorter travel times.
• Overcoming worries of fitness
• Keeping up with the pace of the traffic

15. Riding a bike for the first time years

16. Replacing car use
• A loan project in a socially
deprived area replacing trips
previously made by car or taxi

17. Trip chaining

18. Shared use offers try before you buy
• Loans, pools and on-street
hire providing low cost
convenient opportunity to
test out e-bikes
• Evidence shows e-bike try
outs result in both sales of
conventional bikes and e-
bikes

19. Improving recovery from injury

20. 5 different contexts for Go E-bike

21. Chris Slade, Bikeplus
@bikeplusbike
chris@Bikeplus.org.uk

22. Alistair Macleod

23. Transition UStA
 Support research
impact
 Town and Gown
relations
 Smart travel
 Be a route for bottom-
up action on climate
change
 Student experience
 Staff Experience

24. Travel problem
 Relocation of over 300 professional staff to
Eden Campus provides opportunity for
behaviour change
 Park and Pedal to reduce 13000 car
movements
 Link to Luechars Train station to Eden
Campus and Town
 Facilitate quick onward travel for staff parking
out of town

25. Staff Move

26. Go E-Bike at University of St Andrews
 Initially free to staff for 24hrs
 Linking 3 sites with a further
2 to come
 Battery replacement model
 Work towards income
generation

27. Summary
 12 Gazelle E-bikes with App
Bike locks
 3 Sites at Eden Campus,
Gateway (West end) and
College Gate (Central)
 Training programme and
testing from may
 Test and adapt

28. More info
Transitionsta.org
FB: Transitionsta
Transitionnetwork.org

29. Employer Pool Bike Scheme
Simon White, Director
simon@activecyclingprojects.com

30. Active Cycling Projects is a cycling projects company, working with
business, local authorities and Universities to promote and encourage
greater cycling. www.activecyclingprojects.com
App-Bike is our custom configurable bike sharing platform, utilizing
smart lock technology to provide affordable bike sharing solutions of
any size, and to client demands. www.app-bike.co.uk

31. Employer Pool Bike Scheme
• Roadshow event visiting different employers for 6 weeks at a
time
• Free to the employer
• Bikes are free to use by the employees for up to 24hrs at a
time
• Bikes can be used for any purpose
• Uses our App-Bike platform to rent bikes through mobile
app
• Bikes are fully maintained and charged by ourselves
• Weekly events to encourage use of the bikes, including bike
familiarization and training, led rides, maintenance tips, help
and advice

32. Aims of the project
• To allow users to try out a variety of
e-bikes
• To experience how an e-bike can
influence people’s travel choices
• To allow employers to see how e-
bikes can influence travel choices
• To allow employers to gauge and
assess usage and viability of a pool
bike scheme for their employees.

33. West Lothian Bike
Library
Cycling for all

34. Partnership organisations

35. WLBL stock

36. E-bike projects

37. Target Users
• Working age adults – active travel to work
• Individuals who are currently inactive
• Individuals who are currently unable to access
cycling due to health, fitness or ability
• Individuals who would otherwise be unable to
access cycling for financial reasons
CYCLING FOR ALL

38. Levenmouth = largest urban area in Scotland with no rail service.
Community-Led Environmental
Action for Regeneration (since 2007)
& now, Methil

39. ORCHARDS, WOODLANDS, SHRUB & FLOWER BEDS

40. COMMUNITY GROWING SPACES
Bountiful Buckhaven Magnificent Methil

41. The Hub

42. CLEAR E-Bike Component
6 e-bikes + 1 e-cargo bike (awaiting launch). initially for use by:
• staff (12 part-time) – especially work, but also commuting
• volunteers (up to 30 – work + commute). thereby allowing:
 quicker movement of people, tools, planting materials etc to the
many outlying work sites, &
 frequent movement between main centres (2 Growing Spaces,
Workshop, Hub) 2 miles achieving efficiencies, impact, also:
• demonstration effect and later, trials for wider public
• reducing vehicle movement (several staff don’t drive)

44. Forth Environment Link – Quick Facts
• Community Charity based in the Forth Valley
striving to better link communities to the
environment
• Work across 3 main areas: Active Travel, Food &
Growing and Circular Economy
• Currently run various projects including Stirling
and Falkirk Active Travel Hubs
• Active Travel funding from Transport
Scotland
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45. Falkirk Active Travel Hub – Quick Facts
• Opened February 2018
• Aim is to encourage and support people to make
Active Travel their first choice for travel
• Funded by Low Carbon Travel & Transport Challenge
Fund
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46. Next Bike Stirling
• We already run a public bike share scheme in Stirling with 160 bikes across 25
stations
• This scheme has over 40,000 journeys per year
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47. eBike Forth Valley
• Building on the success of Nextbike Stirling we are developing a
100% electric bike share scheme across the Forth Valley taking in
Falkirk, Stirling and Alloa.
• The Go eBike aspect will allow us to set up a direct link between
Larbert Train Station and Falkirk Royal Infirmary as a pilot to
extending the scheme further
• Larbert Train Station is the main point of arrival for Falkirk Royal
Infirmary for people arriving from out with Falkirk. Combined with
the behaviour change work we carry out through Falkirk Active
Travel Hub with NHS Forth Valley this link will provide an active,
environmentally friendly final link in peoples
journeys to and from the hospital.
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Falkirk Active Travel Hub
203 High Street
Falkirk
FK1 1 DU
athfalkirk@forthenvironmentlink.org
Tel. 01324 230125
Twitter: @FalkirkATH | Facebook: falkirkactivetravelhub