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From: Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board walkmgw@yahoo.com Date: November 11, 2011 12:54:25 PM EST To: Hugh Kierig Hugh.Kierig@mail.wvu.edu, Bill Austin baustin@labyrinth.net, Danielle Williams dwilliams@labyrinth.net, Frank Gmeindl fgmeindl@gmail.com Subject: Fw: PBIC News: New Study of US Bike Sharing Programs to Begin Reply-To: Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board walkmgw@yahoo.com

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Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board Christiaan Abildso, Chair Bill Reger-Nash, Vice Chair http://www.morgantown.com/ped-safety-board.htm

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: PBIC News PBIC_News@mail.vresp.com To: walkmgw@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:50 PM Subject: PBIC News: New Study of US Bike Sharing Programs to Begin

November 10, 2011

New Study of US Bike Sharing Programs to Begin

CHAPEL HILL, NC — The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and Toole Design Group announced today that they will be conducting an independent, national study of current bike sharing programs in the United States. The PBIC is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Federal Highway Administration. The final report with an anticipated release timeframe of approximately eight months will be a resource of information about the implementation of the different bike sharing schemes and provide a guide for cities that are considering investments in bike sharing infrastructure.

The study will explore the evolution of bike sharing in the US, define success factors, explore funding models, explain demographic and geographic trends affecting the implementation of programs, recommend a step-by-step approach for implementation in cities in the start-up phase and will discuss measures to increase demand and expansion of existing programs.

The research team will solicit information on bike share program implementation from State, County and City Departments of Transportation (DOT) charged with implementing bike sharing programs in their localities. The project will be guided by a National Bike Sharing Committee comprised of experts from implementing agencies. The Committee will help facilitate the exchange of best practices and ideas on different program goals, infrastructure requirements, funding programs and system sustainability, vendor selection and management, and community engagement which are necessary for development and expansion of a bike sharing system.

For more information please contact Mauricio Hernandez, Toole Design at (301) 927-1900 or via email at mhernandez@tooledesign.com, or Carl Sundstrom, PBIC at (919) 843-4963 or via email at sundstrom@hsrc.unc.edu.

Since its inception in 1999, PBIC's mission has been to improve the quality of life in communities through the increase of safe walking and bicycling as a viable means of transportation and physical activity. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is maintained by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center 730 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Campus Box 3430 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3430 Phone: 1.888.823.3977 Fax: 919.962.8710 www.walkinginfo.org www.bicyclinginfo.org

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