The following resources offer a description of current Australian programs to encourage the combination of bicycles and public transport, as well as international examples of successful programs:
07th Feb 2012
This guideline provides an outline of the benefits and costs of installing cycling facilities at public transport interchanges. The document was published in 2010 by the EU project NICHES which aims to promote innovative measures for making urban transport more efficient and sustainable and to move them from their current 'niche' position into a mainstream urban transport application.
06th Feb 2012
The marriage between cycling and transit presents opportunities for synergy by enlarging catchment areas of transit stations while drawing in new users to both of these green modes. However, because of the marginality of combining cycling and transit in North America, there is a shortage of reliable empirical studies in this area. This study addressed this gap and the report was published in the journal Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board in December 2011.
13th Jan 2012
This video, produced in December 2011, demonstrates how Transperth encourages cycling. It provides information about access and restrictions on trains, buses and ferries and also shows parking options at stations.
14th Sep 2011
The Swiss Region Alps railway and the Belgium bus company TEC are both providing an option to hire a folding bicycle with an annual ticket.
11th Jul 2011
In April 2011 the International Union of Public Transport published a position paper challenging its 3,000-plus member authorities in 92 countries, to become “real mobility providers,” and promoting the joint mobility of public transport in combination with other modes like cycling, car-sharing and taxis.
01st Jul 2011
In June 2011 the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) published a Bicycle Rail Trip Analysis and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Study that looks at bicycle trips to and from Metro Rail. The study aims to establish the benefits of providing a system that accommodates bicyclists on trains and at train stations.
28th Apr 2011
This research report by Mineta Transportation Institute was published in April 2011. The report looks at cost effective ways of encouraging cyclists onto public transport. Intergrating bicycles with public transport increases the efficiency of both transport modes and brings a range of benefits to communites.
27th Apr 2011
Providing an interface between cycling and public transport makes sound economic sense and would be popular with urban travellers according to research by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
25th Mar 2011
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
22nd Feb 2011
Clarence Eckerson, Jr., February 17, 2011,
StreetsFilms
11th Jan 2011
7 January 2011, Planetizen
Taking your bike on public transit can be a huge hassle, or often, not an option at all. Specially designed accommodations for bicyclists are usually severely limited, and on certain bus, train and metro systems, bikes are only allowed on board during non-peak hours.
23rd Dec 2010
Bradley Schroeder ITDP & Schroeder， Andrea White， Bikestation, 29 Apr 2009, ITDP
PowerPoint presentation on active and public transport integration in Guangzhou.
29th Oct 2010
Mantill Williams, 8/11/2010, American Public Transportation Association - Transit News
29th Oct 2010
by Erik Weber, October 27, 2010, The City Fix via Planetizen
29th Oct 2010
by Angie Schmitt on October 27, 2010
21st Sep 2010
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21st Sep 2010
21st Sep 2010
In communities across the world, there is a growing need and responsibility to provide options that give people the opportunity to bike—to bike more often, to bike to more places, and to feel safe while doing so. The benefits of riding a bicycle-whether for utilitarian or recreational purposes—can be expressed in terms of improved environmental and personal health, reduced traffic congestion, enhanced quality of life, economic rewards, as well as others. This section provides an overview on why it is important to bike and what we can do to make it easier to bike more often.
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