The Toronto Coalition for Active Transport (TCAT), the Community Bicycle Network (CBN), and the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) have just released a report (PDF) summarizing the findings of the Bikes as a Public Good Forum held in September 2008.
Amongst the things discussed were:
- User Groups & Marketing
- Service Area
- Technology & Infrastructure
- Financing
"Discussion was initiated with two short film screenings, Bike Share in Paris by Streetfilms and Tina Hahn’s Tales of a Yellow Bike, and a series of presentations: Herb van den Dool on the Community Bicycle Network’s BikeShare program, Alain Ayotte on Stationnement de Montreal’s new Bixi program, Nate Kvamme on Humana’s Freewheelin programs and David Boyce on Veloway transportation’s approach to bicycle sharing. The audience of approximately eighty people unanimously supported the implementation of a new program.
At the stakeholder roundtable, participants concluded that a new program should allow for flexible access and registration options to accommodate low income roups, expand from the downtown core to the suburbs in a two‐phase implementation process and target a variety of user groups. They suggested that urban professionals, transit users and tourists would be the target market, that bicycle rental hubs should be integrated with existing and planned mobility hubs and transit infrastructure will be paramunt to its’ success."
The full report is available on the TCAT site (PDF).
You can also find the Presentations and the Summary Report of the Forum on the TCAT site as well.
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