Seattle Children's Hospital implemented policies and programs to reduce single-occupancy vehicle commuting among its 5,000 employees from 50% to 30% by 2030. The hospital charged for parking, provided a $4 daily incentive for non-drivers, and invested $4 million in bike and pedestrian infrastructure in the surrounding neighborhood. It offered bike amenities like secure parking, showers, and a service center. As a result, the hospital's annual bike commuting rate increased to 8.6%, far exceeding the downtown Seattle average of 2.9%.
Taking electric bikes for a spin with the RAC WA e-Bike TriaJumpingJaq
The document summarizes an electric bike trial conducted with 40 participants from four workplaces over 10 weeks. It describes the trial design, recruitment process, data collection methods, and key outcomes. Participants significantly increased their cycling and most replaced car trips with ebike trips. The majority were satisfied with their ebikes and would recommend them for commuting. The trial demonstrated ebikes' potential to increase cycling but managing infrastructure and inexperienced riders will be important for wider uptake. It provides lessons for developing future ebike programs and trials.
Este documento proporciona información sobre Sonia Collay, un estudiante de 1er año de bachillerato, y sobre el software libre. Define el software libre como software que respeta la libertad de los usuarios de usar, copiar, estudiar, modificar y redistribuir el software. Aunque a menudo es gratuito, el software libre no necesita serlo y no debe asociarse solo con software gratuito. También brinda una breve historia del software libre y su fundador Richard Stallman.
El documento resume los resultados de un cuestionario sobre los intereses del individuo. Los resultados indican que sus intereses están orientados a la tecnología y la informática, y que los campos que más le llaman la atención son los relacionados con la tecnología. La persona concluye que le gustan la informática y la tecnología y que seguirá explorando estas áreas.
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) relied on the Spectra Rail System to renovate its facility at the Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal. The CPR benefited from the Spectra Rail System by substantially reducing the construction time and costs associated with renovating the intermodal facility.
Suvash Patel has over 15 years of experience in operations and finance roles. He is currently a Senior Supply Planner at Stryker Orthopedics, where he leads a team of 5 production schedulers and manages $21 million in inventory daily. Previously, he held roles as a Material Control Specialist and Manufacturing Process Lead at Stryker. He has a Masters in Accounting and recognition for achievements like reducing work-in-process inventory, improving service levels, and successfully launching new products.
Un blog es un sitio web que recopila artículos de uno o más autores de forma cronológica, con el más reciente primero. Los lectores pueden comentar cada artículo y el autor responder. Los blogs pueden ser personales, periodísticos, empresariales u otros tipos, dependiendo del tema.
El documento explica que la palabra "libro" proviene del latín "liber", relacionado con la corteza del árbol. Un libro generalmente se refiere a una obra literaria, científica u otra que tiene la extensión suficiente para formar un volumen. El documento también menciona que en zoología, un libro se refiere a la tercera de las cuatro cavidades en el estómago de un rumiante.
Taking electric bikes for a spin with the RAC WA e-Bike TriaJumpingJaq
The document summarizes an electric bike trial conducted with 40 participants from four workplaces over 10 weeks. It describes the trial design, recruitment process, data collection methods, and key outcomes. Participants significantly increased their cycling and most replaced car trips with ebike trips. The majority were satisfied with their ebikes and would recommend them for commuting. The trial demonstrated ebikes' potential to increase cycling but managing infrastructure and inexperienced riders will be important for wider uptake. It provides lessons for developing future ebike programs and trials.
Este documento proporciona información sobre Sonia Collay, un estudiante de 1er año de bachillerato, y sobre el software libre. Define el software libre como software que respeta la libertad de los usuarios de usar, copiar, estudiar, modificar y redistribuir el software. Aunque a menudo es gratuito, el software libre no necesita serlo y no debe asociarse solo con software gratuito. También brinda una breve historia del software libre y su fundador Richard Stallman.
El documento resume los resultados de un cuestionario sobre los intereses del individuo. Los resultados indican que sus intereses están orientados a la tecnología y la informática, y que los campos que más le llaman la atención son los relacionados con la tecnología. La persona concluye que le gustan la informática y la tecnología y que seguirá explorando estas áreas.
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) relied on the Spectra Rail System to renovate its facility at the Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal. The CPR benefited from the Spectra Rail System by substantially reducing the construction time and costs associated with renovating the intermodal facility.
Suvash Patel has over 15 years of experience in operations and finance roles. He is currently a Senior Supply Planner at Stryker Orthopedics, where he leads a team of 5 production schedulers and manages $21 million in inventory daily. Previously, he held roles as a Material Control Specialist and Manufacturing Process Lead at Stryker. He has a Masters in Accounting and recognition for achievements like reducing work-in-process inventory, improving service levels, and successfully launching new products.
Un blog es un sitio web que recopila artículos de uno o más autores de forma cronológica, con el más reciente primero. Los lectores pueden comentar cada artículo y el autor responder. Los blogs pueden ser personales, periodísticos, empresariales u otros tipos, dependiendo del tema.
El documento explica que la palabra "libro" proviene del latín "liber", relacionado con la corteza del árbol. Un libro generalmente se refiere a una obra literaria, científica u otra que tiene la extensión suficiente para formar un volumen. El documento también menciona que en zoología, un libro se refiere a la tercera de las cuatro cavidades en el estómago de un rumiante.
Los Misioneros Vicentinos llevan a cabo trabajos de evangelización y ayuda humanitaria en comunidades pobres de México y otros países. Su misión es compartir la palabra de Dios y brindar apoyo espiritual y material a los necesitados. Solicitan donaciones para continuar sus proyectos como comedores, dispensarios y albergues que benefician a indígenas, enfermos y otros grupos vulnerables.
IPC Media will distribute the music magazine. IPC Media publishes successful magazines like NME and Marie Claire. The music magazine will be priced at £2.20, making it cheaper than competitors like Q (£3.90) and NME (£2.40). The magazine will be distributed both in print and online, with the online version allowing digital purchases and access to past articles. Social media will also be used to engage the audience and discuss magazine content.
This letter is a reference for Charles Atencio, who worked as a junior design engineer at Process Facilities, Inc for over 4 years. The writer hired Charles and oversaw his work, during which he progressed from HVAC designer to leading engineering efforts on large projects. Charles was always eager to take on tasks, was creative in his approach, and reliable. He learned AutoCad and handled his own projects that required communicating with various parties. The writer recommends Charles as someone who is career oriented, hard working, and willing to take on challenges.
Park it-seattle-presentation-for-bike-business-summit.compressedScottabarrow
The document proposes policy changes to improve bicycle parking in Seattle. It recommends standardizing high-quality bike racks, refining parking requirements that vary by land use and don't reduce after 50 spaces, and offering better incentives like reducing the car parking to bike parking ratio and providing floor area bonuses for additional bike amenities. This would help make bicycle parking safer, more accessible, and convenient to encourage biking as transportation.
This document outlines the policies and procedures of the International Kids Academy daycare center. It includes their mission statement, philosophy of focusing on developmentally appropriate practices, hours of operation from 7am-6:30pm, enrollment fees, required forms, tuition payment policies, staff qualifications including ratios of 1 adult for every 7 toddlers and 1 adult for every 10 preschoolers, daily schedules, open door policy, discipline policies, and communication with parents.
The preschool activities for 15-26 June include continuing to practice for the play by encouraging children to follow instructions and say their lines, as well as math groups discussing shapes and measuring heights and weights. Parents are asked to go on a shape walk with their children and have them compare and order objects by weight or height. Notices include bringing sunhats and sunscreen for outdoor time, the summer production on July 17, the end of summer party on July 15, and relaxed days on July 20-21 for children already on holiday.
North Bristol NHS Trust is committed to sustainable development and travel. It has implemented numerous initiatives to promote more sustainable travel among staff and visitors, including expanding cycling infrastructure and promoting carpooling. Surveys track progress in shifting modes of transport. Future plans focus on further encouraging walking and carsharing, as well as improving facilities to support more sustainable travel choices.
The document summarizes a regional transportation demand management (TDM) program in the San Francisco Bay Area. It describes the region's growth in population and vehicle miles traveled since the 1950s. It also outlines the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's responsibilities and the program's goals of improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. The program requires large employers to offer commuter benefits like pre-tax transit passes or vanpool subsidies. It provides options and guidelines for employers to comply in order to shift commuters from single-occupancy driving to other modes of transportation.
Fabrication of electro mechanical controlled bike standpratap kumar pudi
This document describes a project to design an electro-mechanical controlled bike stand. The stand is intended to make it easier for senior citizens and women to deploy a center stand on their bikes. It uses a rack and pinion mechanism connected to a DC motor that can be controlled with switches to raise and lower the center stand. The objectives are to avoid effort in deploying the center stand, prevent accidents from improper side stand use, and reduce parking space needs compared to a side stand. Components include the motor, rack and pinion assembly, frame, switches, and battery. The design is intended to provide easier center stand use, increase safety, and allow more efficient parking.
Link Transit is proposing a vision to expand and improve public transit in Chelan and Douglas Counties through 2025. The current system operates 17 routes from 6 AM to 7 PM on weekdays and 7 AM to 6 PM on Saturdays, serving 85% of the population within 3/4 mile. An outreach process found strong support for expanded Sunday and holiday service, more Saturday service, and earlier/later weekday hours. The proposal calls for acquiring smaller shuttles, real-time arrival info, and on-demand options to better serve unconnected areas. It would cost an additional $5.5 million annually, funded by a 0.2% sales tax increase of 2 cents per $10, phased in
Reston Bike Share Feasibility Study: Public Open HouseFairfax County
The document summarizes a feasibility study examining a potential bike sharing system for Reston, Virginia. It describes bike sharing as a network of bicycles distributed around an area for short one-way trips. The study examined the viability of a 13-station, 130-bike system in Reston and identified opportunities like connections to transit and an existing bicycling culture. Key challenges included community densities, locating stations on private property, and identifying funding sources. The study concluded a bike share system was feasible for Reston if careful planning addressed issues like wayfinding, trails, access, and securing capital and operating funds.
This document discusses IT funding concepts at Penn State University. It notes that Penn State has an annual operating budget of $4.3 billion across 24 locations and 85,000 students. Approximately $250 million, or 6% of the operating budget, is associated with IT spending. The document discusses concepts of funding IT services through identifying new funds sources like tuition, fees, or allocating existing resources more efficiently. It argues that funding approaches should influence behaviors of service consumers and providers to maximize benefits and meet institutional goals in the most efficient way. A proposed funding model at Penn State categorizes services and recommends central, shared, or unit-level funding based on the nature and use of the service.
Slide deck used in the Eastside Transportation Association's Legislator briefing held 7/18/2018 at the Master Builder's Association in Bellevue, WA. To watch the recording of the meeting, visit http://stop405tolls.org/2018/07/20/etameeting
This document summarizes the Central Lane MPO's regional bicycle count program. It discusses why they collect bicycle traffic counts, how the counts are conducted, and what is being learned from the data. Some of the key findings are that crash rates are 2-4 times higher for bicycles than motor vehicles when normalized by estimated bicycle miles traveled, and that injury risk is much higher on arterial roads compared to local streets. The data is being used to identify safety priorities and plan bicycle infrastructure improvements.
Assessing the Impact of EV Carsharing Models by Greg DronkertForth
Greg Dronkert, Founder and President at Pacific Mobility Group
gave this presentation at the Forth Assessing the Impact of EV Carsharing Models webinar on January 17, 2023.
Maumee Valley Planning Organization Regional Transportation Planning OverviewRPO America
The Maumee Valley Planning Organization (MVPO) serves as the designated Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) for Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, and Williams Counties in Ohio. As the RTPO, MVPO develops the region's Long Range Transportation Plan called "Moving Together" which identifies transportation needs, projects, and funding sources. MVPO also provides technical assistance to members, pursues grant funding for projects, conducts safety studies, and facilitates short range planning activities to improve transportation safety and accessibility across the region.
Beacon Street Construction Proposal 10/15/12Samantha Coren
The community meeting summarized the Beacon Street Roadway and Streetscapes Improvements project in Somerville, MA. It introduced key members from MassDOT, the City of Somerville, and the design consultants. It provided the project history and purpose, which is to improve functionality, flow, and quality of life for all users through roadway, signal, and amenity upgrades. The meeting outlined proposed improvements to utilities, land use, existing conditions, and proposed conditions. It discussed accommodating bicycles through a proposed cycle track and parking study findings and options.
Title: Transportation Studies in the 21st Century: Incorporating all Modes
Track: Sustain
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: In the 21st century, the basic purpose of transportation studies needs to change from making it easier to drive to giving people options other than driving. This session will present case studies of alternatives to the auto-dominated Level of Service traffic impact studies in order to better address bicycling, transit and walking.
Presenters:
Presenter: Michelle DeRobertis Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities
Co-Presenter: Peter Albert San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Co-Presenter: Patrick Lynch Transpo Group
Co-Presenter: David Thompson City of Boulder, Colorado
The concept of a public bicycle sharing program is being earnestly endorsed by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. In this regard, the MoUD constituted a Bicycle Promotion Committee which held its 1st meeting on 26.07.2011 in New Delhi. The primary motive of this committee was to emphasize the importance of introducing bicycles within a Self sustainable Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) scheme framework in urban areas.
Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program WebinarSpare the Air
This document summarizes an informational webinar about the Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program. The program requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees in the Bay Area to provide one of four commuter benefits options by September 30, 2014. The goals are to reduce traffic, improve air quality, and provide tax savings to employers and employees. Employers must select one option, register online, notify employees and track participation. Options include pre-tax benefits, direct subsidies, employer-provided transit, and alternative commute programs. Assistance is available to help employers understand and comply with the new requirements.
Los Misioneros Vicentinos llevan a cabo trabajos de evangelización y ayuda humanitaria en comunidades pobres de México y otros países. Su misión es compartir la palabra de Dios y brindar apoyo espiritual y material a los necesitados. Solicitan donaciones para continuar sus proyectos como comedores, dispensarios y albergues que benefician a indígenas, enfermos y otros grupos vulnerables.
IPC Media will distribute the music magazine. IPC Media publishes successful magazines like NME and Marie Claire. The music magazine will be priced at £2.20, making it cheaper than competitors like Q (£3.90) and NME (£2.40). The magazine will be distributed both in print and online, with the online version allowing digital purchases and access to past articles. Social media will also be used to engage the audience and discuss magazine content.
This letter is a reference for Charles Atencio, who worked as a junior design engineer at Process Facilities, Inc for over 4 years. The writer hired Charles and oversaw his work, during which he progressed from HVAC designer to leading engineering efforts on large projects. Charles was always eager to take on tasks, was creative in his approach, and reliable. He learned AutoCad and handled his own projects that required communicating with various parties. The writer recommends Charles as someone who is career oriented, hard working, and willing to take on challenges.
Park it-seattle-presentation-for-bike-business-summit.compressedScottabarrow
The document proposes policy changes to improve bicycle parking in Seattle. It recommends standardizing high-quality bike racks, refining parking requirements that vary by land use and don't reduce after 50 spaces, and offering better incentives like reducing the car parking to bike parking ratio and providing floor area bonuses for additional bike amenities. This would help make bicycle parking safer, more accessible, and convenient to encourage biking as transportation.
This document outlines the policies and procedures of the International Kids Academy daycare center. It includes their mission statement, philosophy of focusing on developmentally appropriate practices, hours of operation from 7am-6:30pm, enrollment fees, required forms, tuition payment policies, staff qualifications including ratios of 1 adult for every 7 toddlers and 1 adult for every 10 preschoolers, daily schedules, open door policy, discipline policies, and communication with parents.
The preschool activities for 15-26 June include continuing to practice for the play by encouraging children to follow instructions and say their lines, as well as math groups discussing shapes and measuring heights and weights. Parents are asked to go on a shape walk with their children and have them compare and order objects by weight or height. Notices include bringing sunhats and sunscreen for outdoor time, the summer production on July 17, the end of summer party on July 15, and relaxed days on July 20-21 for children already on holiday.
North Bristol NHS Trust is committed to sustainable development and travel. It has implemented numerous initiatives to promote more sustainable travel among staff and visitors, including expanding cycling infrastructure and promoting carpooling. Surveys track progress in shifting modes of transport. Future plans focus on further encouraging walking and carsharing, as well as improving facilities to support more sustainable travel choices.
The document summarizes a regional transportation demand management (TDM) program in the San Francisco Bay Area. It describes the region's growth in population and vehicle miles traveled since the 1950s. It also outlines the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's responsibilities and the program's goals of improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. The program requires large employers to offer commuter benefits like pre-tax transit passes or vanpool subsidies. It provides options and guidelines for employers to comply in order to shift commuters from single-occupancy driving to other modes of transportation.
Fabrication of electro mechanical controlled bike standpratap kumar pudi
This document describes a project to design an electro-mechanical controlled bike stand. The stand is intended to make it easier for senior citizens and women to deploy a center stand on their bikes. It uses a rack and pinion mechanism connected to a DC motor that can be controlled with switches to raise and lower the center stand. The objectives are to avoid effort in deploying the center stand, prevent accidents from improper side stand use, and reduce parking space needs compared to a side stand. Components include the motor, rack and pinion assembly, frame, switches, and battery. The design is intended to provide easier center stand use, increase safety, and allow more efficient parking.
Link Transit is proposing a vision to expand and improve public transit in Chelan and Douglas Counties through 2025. The current system operates 17 routes from 6 AM to 7 PM on weekdays and 7 AM to 6 PM on Saturdays, serving 85% of the population within 3/4 mile. An outreach process found strong support for expanded Sunday and holiday service, more Saturday service, and earlier/later weekday hours. The proposal calls for acquiring smaller shuttles, real-time arrival info, and on-demand options to better serve unconnected areas. It would cost an additional $5.5 million annually, funded by a 0.2% sales tax increase of 2 cents per $10, phased in
Reston Bike Share Feasibility Study: Public Open HouseFairfax County
The document summarizes a feasibility study examining a potential bike sharing system for Reston, Virginia. It describes bike sharing as a network of bicycles distributed around an area for short one-way trips. The study examined the viability of a 13-station, 130-bike system in Reston and identified opportunities like connections to transit and an existing bicycling culture. Key challenges included community densities, locating stations on private property, and identifying funding sources. The study concluded a bike share system was feasible for Reston if careful planning addressed issues like wayfinding, trails, access, and securing capital and operating funds.
This document discusses IT funding concepts at Penn State University. It notes that Penn State has an annual operating budget of $4.3 billion across 24 locations and 85,000 students. Approximately $250 million, or 6% of the operating budget, is associated with IT spending. The document discusses concepts of funding IT services through identifying new funds sources like tuition, fees, or allocating existing resources more efficiently. It argues that funding approaches should influence behaviors of service consumers and providers to maximize benefits and meet institutional goals in the most efficient way. A proposed funding model at Penn State categorizes services and recommends central, shared, or unit-level funding based on the nature and use of the service.
Slide deck used in the Eastside Transportation Association's Legislator briefing held 7/18/2018 at the Master Builder's Association in Bellevue, WA. To watch the recording of the meeting, visit http://stop405tolls.org/2018/07/20/etameeting
This document summarizes the Central Lane MPO's regional bicycle count program. It discusses why they collect bicycle traffic counts, how the counts are conducted, and what is being learned from the data. Some of the key findings are that crash rates are 2-4 times higher for bicycles than motor vehicles when normalized by estimated bicycle miles traveled, and that injury risk is much higher on arterial roads compared to local streets. The data is being used to identify safety priorities and plan bicycle infrastructure improvements.
Assessing the Impact of EV Carsharing Models by Greg DronkertForth
Greg Dronkert, Founder and President at Pacific Mobility Group
gave this presentation at the Forth Assessing the Impact of EV Carsharing Models webinar on January 17, 2023.
Maumee Valley Planning Organization Regional Transportation Planning OverviewRPO America
The Maumee Valley Planning Organization (MVPO) serves as the designated Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) for Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, and Williams Counties in Ohio. As the RTPO, MVPO develops the region's Long Range Transportation Plan called "Moving Together" which identifies transportation needs, projects, and funding sources. MVPO also provides technical assistance to members, pursues grant funding for projects, conducts safety studies, and facilitates short range planning activities to improve transportation safety and accessibility across the region.
Beacon Street Construction Proposal 10/15/12Samantha Coren
The community meeting summarized the Beacon Street Roadway and Streetscapes Improvements project in Somerville, MA. It introduced key members from MassDOT, the City of Somerville, and the design consultants. It provided the project history and purpose, which is to improve functionality, flow, and quality of life for all users through roadway, signal, and amenity upgrades. The meeting outlined proposed improvements to utilities, land use, existing conditions, and proposed conditions. It discussed accommodating bicycles through a proposed cycle track and parking study findings and options.
Title: Transportation Studies in the 21st Century: Incorporating all Modes
Track: Sustain
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: In the 21st century, the basic purpose of transportation studies needs to change from making it easier to drive to giving people options other than driving. This session will present case studies of alternatives to the auto-dominated Level of Service traffic impact studies in order to better address bicycling, transit and walking.
Presenters:
Presenter: Michelle DeRobertis Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities
Co-Presenter: Peter Albert San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Co-Presenter: Patrick Lynch Transpo Group
Co-Presenter: David Thompson City of Boulder, Colorado
The concept of a public bicycle sharing program is being earnestly endorsed by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. In this regard, the MoUD constituted a Bicycle Promotion Committee which held its 1st meeting on 26.07.2011 in New Delhi. The primary motive of this committee was to emphasize the importance of introducing bicycles within a Self sustainable Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) scheme framework in urban areas.
Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program WebinarSpare the Air
This document summarizes an informational webinar about the Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program. The program requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees in the Bay Area to provide one of four commuter benefits options by September 30, 2014. The goals are to reduce traffic, improve air quality, and provide tax savings to employers and employees. Employers must select one option, register online, notify employees and track participation. Options include pre-tax benefits, direct subsidies, employer-provided transit, and alternative commute programs. Assistance is available to help employers understand and comply with the new requirements.
Walking the Walk: Complete Streets are Smart Growth Investments - GSMSummit 2...GrowSmart Maine
Why plan for growth and change, when it seems so much easier to simply react?
When there is a distinct and shared vision for your community - when residents, businesses and local government anticipate a sustainable town with cohesive and thriving neighborhoods - you have the power to conserve your beautiful natural spaces, enhance your existing downtown or Main Street, enable rural areas to be productive and prosperous, and save money through efficient use of existing infrastructure.
This is the dollars and sense of smart growth.
Success is clearly visible in Maine, from the creation of a community-built senior housing complex and health center in Fort Fairfield to conservation easements creating Forever Farms to Rockland's revitalized downtown. Communities have options. We have the power to manage our own responses to growth and change.
After all, “Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” - Richard I. Winwood
And in the end, this means that our children and their children will choose to make Maine home and our economy will provide the opportunities to do so.
The Summit offers you a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the transformative change in Maine that we’ve seen these gatherings produce. We encourage you to consider the value of being actively involved in growing Maine’s economy and protecting the reasons we choose to live here.
This document summarizes a project to increase walking in Camberwell, Australia. The project included developing plans to improve walking infrastructure on key corridors, implementing behavioral change initiatives, and assessing results. Surveys found half of trips were by car and walking could increase to over 30% of trips. Infrastructure upgrades like adding trees and seating increased walking by 20-100% along corridors. A behavioral program using a walking app and incentives increased participation and self-reported walking and driving reductions. The project demonstrated that improving infrastructure and promoting behavior change can successfully increase levels of walking.
Transport and Travel Challenges for the NHS - Webinar4 All of Us
This webinar addressed key topical areas such as:
Parking charging for patients - How can this be addressed and improved?
Adequate parking spaces- Are Trusts fit for purpose when it comes to car parking?
Travel planning- How can Trusts reduce congestion around the Estates and what transport plans should Trusts utilise?
Sustainable travel- Is the NHS doing enough to promote this?
Dan Saunders of Basemap and Ian Goodwin of the British Parking Association were on hand to present information to overcome such challenges for Estate Directors and Managers.
This document summarizes an event called the Leeds Sustainability Day 2016 Road Show. It includes an agenda with times and speakers on topics related to sustainability in the NHS. Speakers will discuss implementing sustainability strategies in NHS trusts, delivering sustainable development management plans, using software to provide solutions to NHS issues, and the potential role of fuel cell technology in NHS energy mixes. The document also includes presentations on delivering a sustainable development management plan at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and implementing an environmental management system at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
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The document appears to be an agenda for a bike business event that included photos, registration, and welcome and keynote speeches from Andrew Over and Lisa Brandenburg. It also included multiple workshops on topics like bike parking, getting to events by bike and transit, and encouraging more women to bike. The event concluded with a bus bike rack demonstration, food at happy hour, and networking opportunities.
2016 seattle employers bike summit networking activity notesScottabarrow
The 2016 Seattle Employers Bike Summit provided information on the health, productivity, and financial benefits of biking to work. Attendees learned about establishing bike-friendly policies like secure bike parking, advocacy for bike lanes, and bike sharing programs. The summit also covered best practices for different types of bike infrastructure, the importance of education for new riders, and ways employers can encourage multi-modal commuting options by better integrating bike and transit information.
Sebs 2016 workshop_2a - Bike Parking: Best Practices and Current OptionsScottabarrow
Bike Parking: Best Practices and Current Options: With rapidly growing public and private improvements in bike facilities, bike commuting is becoming a real option for people of all ages and abilities. Learn how private employers, such as Amazon, have worked with the city to build out bike infrastructure and amenities that benefit employees, customers, and the greater Seattle community.
Sebs 2016 workshop_1b - Building Bike Friendly BusinessesScottabarrow
Building Bike Friendly Business Networks: Do you offer visitor bike parking for customers? Offer shower and locker facilities for employees? Provide ORCA Choice or ORCA Business Passport? Then you may qualify for “Bike Friendly Business” status! Learn how you can be recognized as an official Bike Friendly Business and join a wide network of peers across the city. Learn the benefits of being a Bike Friendly Business from the firsthand experience of employers such as Bryan Miller (Naked City Brewery).
2016 Seattle Employer Bike Summit - Keynote - Lisa Brandenburg (President, Seattle Children's Hospital). Business leader and bike commuter, Lisa Brandenburg, makes the connection between healthy communities and business strategy resulting in an award winning commute program with significant results. Seattle Children’s Hospital has also achieved top ratings as a Bike Friendly Business.
Pebs 2016 workshop peer to peer encouragement - meeting notesScottabarrow
This document contains information on safety resources for biking in Portland, Oregon. It addresses common barriers to biking such as having kids, fear of biking, and bike theft. It provides phone numbers to report glass or other hazards on bike routes. It also lists workshops on bike commuting and active transportation. Suggestions are given for addressing barriers like using a bike to travel between daycare and other destinations, educating oneself on safer routes, emergency ride programs, and alternating biking between household members. Myths about biking short distances are addressed, as are programs to match fearful bikers with experienced riders, education, and rewarding first bike commutes. Bike lock and locker programs, and a bike-friendly
Pebs2016 workshop bike share for employers - grassroots to large scaleScottabarrow
This document describes Daimler Trucks North America's bike share program for its employees. The program includes 40 beach cruiser bikes distributed across 15 buildings on its Swan Island campus in Portland. Employees can check out bikes for free after completing an online safety training. Bikes are stored in secure locations and can be checked out with an eligibility sticker. The goal is to provide employees with an affordable and sustainable transportation option.
Pebs2016 workshop creating bike commuters in the white collar worldScottabarrow
This document summarizes a panel discussion on creating bike commuters in white-collar workplaces. The panelists were from Vernier, Ecova, and Elemental and were moderated by Stephanie Noll from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. The document then focuses on Ecova's experience participating in the annual Bike More Challenge, providing statistics on its participation and efforts to engage employees before, during and after the challenge through activities like pledge forms, weekly treats, a bike maintenance workshop, and a celebration party.
Pebs2016 workshop transportation options for employees who work outside the...Scottabarrow
This document discusses transportation options for employees who work outside typical office hours in industries like healthcare, hospitality, and services. Over 40% of Portland's workforce falls into this category but faces barriers to transportation like non-standard schedules. Presenters provide examples of programs like a commuter kiosk on Swan Island, an app-based competition called Commove, and OHSU's emphasis on inclusive outreach and radical empathy to better support biking. The discussion focuses on challenges and opportunities for expanding options for this large segment of the workforce.
Pebs 2016 keynote pdf cortright bta may2016Scottabarrow
This document discusses the economic importance of bikable and walkable places. It summarizes research showing that:
- Talented young workers increasingly seek out dense, diverse, transit-served cities and neighborhoods that are bikeable and walkable.
- As a result, many companies are choosing to locate or expand in walkable downtown areas in order to attract and retain top talent.
- Walkable cities are experiencing economic growth and increasing property values, while driving and freight transportation are declining in importance to the new knowledge-based economy.
The document provides three financial justifications for investing $90,000 in bike amenities for a commercial building. First, providing amenities could prevent losing $90,000 from a tenant not renewing their lease or attracting a new 6,000 square foot tenant. Second, a 1% increase in occupancy from desired amenities would generate an additional $15,000 in annual rent. Third, a 1% increase in average rent from amenities would also increase annual rent by $15,000.
The document discusses the various players that influence bicycle infrastructure requirements - regulators, developers/building owners, and architects. It then examines case studies of two buildings, Block 44 and the Renton Office Park, that sought to provide bicycle parking and amenities above minimum requirements. The key recommendations are to provide a variety of high-quality bicycle parking and amenity solutions that address different user needs and support the local cycling culture and infrastructure.
Sebs 2015 session_2_workshop_a_mary_programs and incentivesScottabarrow
This document outlines strategies for creating bike-friendly workplaces through programs and incentives. It discusses common barriers to bike commuting and motivators that encourage it. Examples are provided of leading bike-friendly companies and their best practices, including Seattle Children's Hospital, the University of Washington, Starbucks HQ, and Microsoft. Cascade Bicycle Club is also profiled for achieving a 56% bike commute rate among staff through casual policies, cash incentives, and commute awards. The document encourages employers to identify gaps, establish goals, get creative with ideas, and consider parking disincentives to promote bike commuting.
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The document discusses bike promotion and support at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence. It notes that biking is encouraged due to limited parking and as part of a larger commuter trip reduction campaign. The center runs a volunteer bike program that promotes Bike Month, provides indoor and outdoor bike parking, showers, lockers, and a pump for flats. Interest in biking to work has grown over four years as the program started new rider teams, promoted prizes, and provided monthly breakfasts and summer bike clinics for all staff.
Tableau Software supports cycling to work for its employees for several reasons:
- It allows employees to save money on parking and healthcare costs while also reducing parking administration costs.
- More importantly, supporting cycling aligns with Tableau's core values of teamwork, respect, and customer delight. It fosters a culture where employees support each other in commuting via bike.
- Tableau promotes cycling through cash subsidies, showers/lockers, bike storage, company bikes to use, fitness challenges, and events for Bike to Work Month. Participation has grown significantly each year, showing that employees want to commute by bike and Tableau is happy to support that.
The document is about Pine Street Group L.L.C., a company that owns and manages apartments, retail, and office properties. It discusses how green building practices can benefit personal health by reducing cardiovascular and breast cancer risks and improving mental health. It also notes how green buildings can increase company productivity through higher productivity, fewer sick days, and less errors for employees working in those buildings.
7. Policy: No Free Parking
• Parking charges all hours, all days, all staff
• Daily parking only (no monthly permits)
• Variable parking rates from $2.25 to $10.00
• No parking in the neighborhood
8. Policy: Pay Staff Not To Drive
$ 4 a day each day staff do not drive alone to work
= $ 1,000 annually
9. Amenities: The Basics
• Long-term bike parking
– Weather protected
– Secure
– Good quality racks for
wide variety of bikes
– Bike pump
– Fix-it-tools
• Showers & Locker
16. Improve External Environments
• $4 million commitment to
make biking & walking
easier in NE Seattle
Improving crossings
Trail connections
Greenway
What is Seattle Children's
Why invest in Bike Commuting
Business Value
Strategies
Policies
Amenities
Infrastructure
Performance
Intro here if needed…..I’d like to share with you today a brief overview of Seattle Children’s transportation program. I will share with you why we do what we do, what our strategic goal is, and what programing elements we develop to achieve our goal. But most importantly I’d like share with you our organizing framework for how we think about doing what we do – because this framework is relevant regardless of your organization’s size or budget.
A little background….
Seattle Children’s is an acute care children’s hospital, serving WA, AK, ID, MT. and our mission is to prevent, treat and eliminate pediatric disease
[click] We have 5000 employees and 1000 patients arriving at our hospital each day. [click] And we have 1,200 parking spots on sight. As the math suggests….we have a problem. Demand well exceeds our supply of parking.
Let me add that the hospital is located in one of Seattle’s most affluent residential neighborhood. [click] As such the neighborhood is served by only two bus routes. So historically, not an area of rich transit service.
And if scarce parking and light bus service weren’t enough……
We also have a mandate from the city to reduce the number of Single Occupancy Vehicles (SOV) coming to the neighborhood to only 30% of all commute trips by 2030
In 2004 50% of staff drove alone. Today….
Grow without growing parking
Reduce demand
Avoid $30 million cost of building 500 more parking spaces
Scarce parking
Through our MIMP process, we identified that in order to not increase traffic congestion, we would need to reduce the number of our staff driving alone to work. We pledged to reach a 30% drive alone rate by 2028. You can see our progress here.
While a transportation management plan (TMP) is required of all major institution master plans, we decided to go above and beyond that requirement by developing what we called a a Comprehensive Transportation Plan to help us meet this aggressive goal.
As an organization you have three spheres of influence through which to work. Individually each is valuable, though some spheres are easier to affect than others
Let’s start with Policy, Generally speaking and relative to the other two sphere’s of influence Are you internal policies working on your behalf? Are they aligned with your transportation goals?
For instance is your organization providing free or subsidized parking? If so, eliminating free of subsidized parking (for everyone) is the single most productive thing you can do to move the dial on drive alone commuting
Another policy – make it a policy to provide a subsidized transit pass, to subsidize carpool or van pool parking. Make it a policy or standard procedure to aggressively communicate or education new and current employees about these benefits.
Make it a policy to support bike month every year, to encourage and celebrate your internal bike teams. Schedule a bike mechanic every month at your work site, and better yet, include a discount on the bike tune up
Amenities: These are opportunities and you may or may not have direct control over them. But they are within your sphere of influence either because you own the infrastructure or you can influence your property owner or management
Charging for parking is single most influential things
Does your organization provide the quality and quantity of bike parking, lockers and showers for your staff who bike or walk to work. End of trip amenities are very important to bike commuters and walking. People who drive wouldn’t dream of arriving at their destination and have not parking. Think of bicycling that way too.
External Infrastructure: Arguably the sphere – relative to the other two, that you have the least direct influence over but there is a not you can do here……
How safe easy and convenient are the sidewalks near your location?
Are there cross walks in the right location?
Are there traffic signals in the right location?
How frequent and reliable is the bus service proximate to your location?
Do you have a protected bike lane than that connects to your worksite?
These are occasions to connect with your local Department of Transportation or transit provider and advocate for improvements.
So the first way we tipped the scales and arguably one of the most effective was a policy change around parking. We decided one of the best tools for managing scarce parking was to price it as though it was scarce.
No free parking. At Children’s parking charges apply all hours of the day and all days of the week. No monthly parking is available, in fact it is all daily rates and on top of that, we have variable pricing
Staff have access to these lots based on job classification and seniority
Staff ID badges provide them access to the lots and also records the parking event for which they would pay
Parking varies from $2.25 per day to $10 a day. The most expensive rate during is the peak part of the day 6-9
I can’t over emphasize effectiveness of reducing demand for parking by 1) charging for it 2) only providing daily parking
We actually pay our staff not to drive
We pay them 4 dollars each day they do not drive alone to work. We call it a commute bonus. And it adds up to be worth about 1,000 annually and therefore not insubstantial. It fact, it is very motivating and has significant effect on changing behavior and supporting the kind of behavior we need long term.
Now, We needed a powerful and visual way to bring all of the elements of our commute program together in one place….
Amenities are within your sphere of influence either because you own the infrastructure or you can influence your property owner or management
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Our staff visit their commute calendar each day to report the mode by which they commuted that day. This is how they trigger their $4 commute bonus. It is rich engaging user interface that norms alternative forms of commuting and engages our staff as part of the solution
The 3rd sphere of influence is improving the external environment.
It is convenient to think that your responsibility or influence ends at the external walls of your organization. It doesn’t. There are improvements you can affect and or make in the so that it is easier for you staff to arrive at work by not driving alone.
For instance Children's worked with our local transit and DOT to:
-improve the proximity and frequency of transit serving the hospital.
-We paid to improve the cross walks, signals, sidewalks and curbs within several blocks from the hospital.
We funded the creation of a greenway (for bicyclists and pedestrians0 that runs througn the neighborhood.
We paid for a protected bike lane along the hospital footage
and most recently we completed a bike and pedestrian pathway to connects the hospital with the main bike path (The Burke Gilman Trail). We included benches, a community bulletin board and a bike and pedestrian counter.
the hospital, our foundation headquarters, our autism center, and our administrative building (RC), were all located near the Burke Gilman Trail
Many more women than men
Flip these!!!
Maggie – are these numbers accurate?
How many years have we won the diamond award?
Children’s is unique because we have staff dedicated to transportation demand management
-investments lead to awards
We have a dedicated team that is dedicated to Transportation a department solely dedicated to reducing our drive alone
Children’s made this investment
We own roughly 220 bikes
Lights
Lock
Fenders
Helmet
Rack
Pledge to ride 2x/week year-round