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Bikes for Everyone: Inclusive: PSU Bike Share
- 1. Barriers to bike share (and bicycling) in underserved neighborhoods Project Site: http://trec.pdx.edu/research/project/884 Nathan McNeil, Portland State University
- 2. Bike share and equity • Past research tells us: – Bike share stations are less likely to be located nearby for people who are: • Lower Income • African-American or Black – Bike share users are disproportionately: • White or Caucasian • Higher income • Male • Age 25-34 – Even when stations are placed in low-income and minority communities, usage has been low. 2
- 3. Efforts to improve bike share equity Better Bike Share Partnership Funded equity initiatives for: • Philadelphia – Indego • Grants to 6 cities in year one (2015-2016) and 9 cities in year 2 (2016-2017) 3
- 4. 4 Element Who / What When Bike Share owner / operator scan Entities planning & operating bike share systems Spring 2016 Resident Surveys Residents, whether or not they currently bike or use bike share Summer 2016 Report expected May 2017 User Surveys Current & past bike share users Winter-Spring 2016- 2017 PSU Research Elements
- 5. Resident Survey 5 Details 18,000 residents in Brooklyn, Chicago and Philadelphia Low-income areas with recent bike share stations added Areas with targeted outreach Mail out survey with online and paper options Spanish Language option
- 6. Response Rates by City 6 9% 13% 12% Chicago Philadelphia Brooklyn, New York
- 7. Respondents Breakdown 7 Based on survey responses < 300% Poverty > 300% Poverty White Alone, not Hispanic 45 191 Non- white and/or Hispanic 331 212 1885 Surveys Returned
- 9. 9 Barriers: Cost and gear
- 16. 16 Barriers: Concerns about the Trip
- 17. 17 Barriers: Knowledge / Experience
- 22. 22 Barriers: Bicycling 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% NON-WHITE & LOWER INCOME NON-WHITE & HIGHER INCOME WHITE & LOWER INCOME WHITE & HIGHER INCOME PERCENTSELECINT"BIGBARRIER" Riding a bike could cause me to be harassed or a victim of crime Something could go wrong with a bike (such as a flat tire) I don't know how to get where I need to go by bike I am too out of shape to ride a bike Biking might aggravate my personal health issues My friends and family wouldn't want me to ride a bike Riding a bike could make me a target for police attention Riding a bike is not viewed as a cool activity by my friends People might think that I can't afford a car 3.6 2.9 2.9 2.2 Average # of big barriers selected
- 23. 23 Barriers: Bike Share 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% NON-WHITE & LOWER INCOME NON-WHITE & HIGHER INCOME WHITE & LOWER INCOME WHITE & HIGHER INCOME PERCENTSELECTING"BIGBARRIER" I worry that I'll have to pay for the bike if anything happens to it I don't want to use a credit card to use bike share I don't know enough about how to use it I don't have a smart phone I worry that the [BikeShare] bikes wouldn't adjust to fit me I just don't want to support the [BikeShare] program Checking out and returning [BikeShare] bikes is too complicated Signing up for [BikeShare] is too complicated 2.5 1.8 2.0 1.4 Average # of big barriers selected
- 24. So what to do? 24
- 25. So what to do? 25 What are reasons why people would consider trying bike share?
- 26. Reasons to try bike share 26 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% NON-WHITE & LOWER INCOME NON-WHITE & HIGHER INCOME WHITE & LOWER INCOME WHITE & HIGHER INCOME To get exercise For fun To ride with friends/family To help the environment It's an easy way to get around Want to try biking Stations are near my home / work / school Saves me money Saves me time Don't need a bike of my own Don't want to rely on transit To get to bus or rail stops To get to jobs more easily To get to social services
- 27. Recreation 27 or Utility 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% N ON - WH I TE & LOWER I N COM E N ON - WH I TE & H I GH ER I N COM E WH I TE & LOWER I N COM E WH I TE & H I GH ER I N COM E To get exercise For fun To ride with friends/family Want to try biking 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% N ON - WH I TE & LOWER I N COM E N ON - WH I TE & H I GH ER I N COM E WH I TE & LOWER I N COM E WH I TE & H I GH ER I N COM E It's an easy way to get around Stations are near my home / work / school Saves me money Saves me time Don't need a bike of my own Don't want to rely on transit To get to bus or rail stops
- 28. So what to do? 28 What sources of information are compelling?
- 29. 29
- 30. Research Team: Research made possible by support from: Better Bike Share Partnership JPB Foundation PeopleForBikes National Institute for Transportation and Communities Grantee Cities around the country 30 Nathan McNeil, nmcneil@pdx.edu Jennifer Dill, Ph.D. John MacArthur Joseph Broach, Ph.D. Steven Howland Project Site: http://trec.pdx.edu/research/project/884
Editor's Notes
- Cities have begun to make more conscious efforts to place stations in low-income and minority communities, but even then the uptake among these community members has been challenges. The Better Bike Share Partnership has funded efforts in Philadelphia and cities around the country. Large investment in Philly including stations in targeted neighborhoods, outreach, education, and system design. Grants to cities included a large variety of approaches including discounted memberships, education, outreach, and more.
- Overall research project includes examining issues of bike share equity using data from a variety of sources. My presentation today will be focusing on data from the residents surveys.
- Areas shaded in purple were outreach areas, and areas shaded in blue were control areas (that also had bike share stations)
- Of all the survey respondents, I focus on a subset for the findings I’m presenting today – specifically people in the outreach areas (as opposed to control areas), under 65 years old, physically able to ride a bicycle, and who provided race and income information. These respondents were broken down into four groups based on race income, primarily because of the information we already know about bike share users – which is that they tend to be white and higher income.
- Income level can be a dominant factor
- In other cases race can be a dominate factors
- Traffic safety was a top barrier for everyone, with no significant difference between groups. Not having a safe place to leave a bicycle was a bit less likely to be cited by the white higher income group.
- Personal safety emerged as a much bigger barrier for the non-white respondents. Around 20% of non white group felt that riding a bicycle could cause them to be harassed. Police attention – the overall number citing this was small, but considerably higher for the non white, and especially non-white lower income respondents.
- Next group of barriers we looked at were around logistics, knowledge and experience
- Too far away – higher for non-white respondents. Might be perception, or it might be that they are travelling further distances – unfortunately we can’t answer that with our data. Given the perception that destinations are too far away, its not surprisingly that knowing how to get there on bike would be more of a barrier for the non-white respondents.
- Fears or concerns about the journey can also be barriers.
- Concerns about appearance were noted by quite a few respondents, however, there were not many differences between groups.
- However, we did observe some differences on issues of image – with the non-white lower income group in particular having a few more concerns about biking being viewed as cool, and about being viewed as a symbol of not having money or being able to afford a car.
- We looked at barriers that had significant differences between these race and income groups, and pulled out those that affected more than 10% of the people in one group, and less than 10% in another group. In all cases, the members of the non-white low income group faces greater barriers.
- Many of these barriers were not cited as big barriers by most respdonents, however, there were many more
- Bike share line chart differences