This presentation acts as the foundation for a webinar on international bike share. It covers the history of bike share, impact analysis, as well as barriers and facilitators to use. Advice is provided for cities looking to establish bike share, as well as for those looking to boost the performance of existing ones.

1. Global Bike Share
Webinar – July 2015
Dr Elliot Fishman
Institute for Sensible Transport

2. Outline
• History of bike share
• How usage varies between cities
• Mode substitution – and why it’s important
• Impacts
• What motivates people to use bike share
• Bike share gone wrong
• Elements of success

3. The father of shared transport
Luud Schimmelpennink, 1967

5. White Bikes

6. Evolution of bike share
1st Generation 2nd Generation
3rd Generation

7. Growth of bike share
Source: Russell Meddin, published in Fishman, 2015, Bikeshare: A Review of Recent Literature

8. 2014 Launches
Source: Russell Meddin, 2015

9. Bike share – system size
Source: O’Brien, 2014 published in Fishman, 2015, Bikeshare: A Review of Recent Literature

10. Hangzhou

11. Bikeshare use
Source: Fishman, 2015, Bikeshare: A Review of Recent Literature, Transport Reviews

12. Source:Fishmanetal.,2014Barrierstobikesharing,JournalofTransportGeography

13. Mode substitution
Source: Fishman, 2015, Bikeshare: A Review of Recent Literature

14. Impacts
• Car use
• Physical activity
• Safety
Usage data
Mode
substitution
Changes in
VKT
Methodology

15. Impact methodology
Melbourne Brisbane Washington, D.C. London
Bikes 600 1800 1800 8000
Trips 138,548 209,232 2,008,079 9,040,580
Trips per bike, per day 0.6 0.3 3.0 3.1
Mean trip duration (min.) 22.0 16.2 15.8 17.5
Est. travel speed (km/h) 12 12 12 12
Est. distance travelled per
trip (KM)
4.4 3.2 3.1 3.5
Est. distance travelled per
system in KM (2012)
609,611 677,912 6,345,530 31,642,029
Car substitution 19% 21% 7% 2%
Estimated car travel
reduction (KM)
115,826 142,361 444,187 632,841
Est. car travel reduction per
bike (KM)
193 79 247 79
Source: Fishman, Washington & Haworth, 2015 Bike share’s impact on car use (Transportation Research Part D)

16. Impact on car use
Source: Fishman, Washington & Haworth, 2015 Bike share’s impact on car use (Transportation
Research Part D)

17. -50 0 50 100
Melbourne
Brisbane
Washington DC
Minneapolis/St. Paul
London
Minutes of Physical Activity (Millions)
Walking not done due to bikeshare Car to bikeshare Taxi to bikeshare
Public transport to bikeshare New trip Walk to bikeshare
Bike share’s impact on active travel
Source: Fishman et al., 2015,
Bikeshare’s impact on active travel

18. Bike share and safety
Source: Graves et al., 2014

19. Bike share crash data
Slight injury Serious injury Fatal
Paris 159 19 0
London 62 17 1
New York City 71 8.5 0
Montreal 22 0 0
Washington, D.C. 23 2 0
Chicago 5 2 0
Minneapolis/St Paul 0 0 0
Melbourne 0 0 0
All city total 350 65 1
Source: Fishman & Schepers (2014) Global bikeshare: What the data tells us about safety

20. Injuries per distance travelled
Slight injuries per
million km
Serious injuries per
million km
Paris 1.3 0.2
London 2.6 0.7
NYC 4.0 0.5
Montreal 2.2 0
Washington, D.C. 3.3 0.3
Chicago 1.8 0.7
Minneapolis/St. Paul 0 0
Melbourne 0 0
All city average 1.9 0.3
Source: Fishman & Schepers (2014) Global bikeshare: What the data tells us about safety

21. Safety: Private Vs. Pubic Bikes
Source: Fishman & Schepers (2014) Global bikeshare: What the data tells us about safety

22. Bike Share: The Human Response

23. Why do people use
bikeshare in Australia?
Source: Fishman et al., 2014 Barriers to bikesharing, Journal of Transport Geography

24. Convenience
is everything

25. Why people don’t use
bike share#
Source: Fishman et al., 2014 Barriers to bikesharing, Journal of Transport Geography
#Based on a Brisbane sample.

26. Why people didn’t use Melbourne
Bike Share
Source:AltaBikeShare,2011

27. Bike share gone wrong: The
Australian experience
Too small
No plan for helmets @ launch
Safety concerns
Poor marketing
Car is too convenient

28. Model for success
Fishman, 2014 Bikeshare : barriers, facilitators and impacts on car use

29. Future possibilities
PT smartcard integrated
Electric assist
Large scale
Dockless
Mobile
payments

30. Thank you.
Dr Elliot Fishman
Director, Transport Innovation
Institute for Sensible Transport
E: info@sensibletransport.org.au
W: www.sensibletransport.org.au