GREEN UMBRELLA - BIKE SHARE STATIONS LOCATION
Carlos Jean-Baptiste, Lindsey Riley, Randa Kachef & Sasha Mahajan
INTRODUCTION
In recent years, bike share programs have become a new and highly desirable option for transportation in cities across the world. B-cycle, a private collaboration between Humana, Trek Bicycles Corporation, and Crispin Porter & Bogusky, is an industry leader in bike share program facilitating. They have implemented over thirty bike share systems worldwide in cities like Austin, Denver, Charlotte, Santiago, Chile (B-cycle, 2013), and Cincinnati is next! B-cycle has been actively creating a plan and implementation strategy for the Cincinnati region with hopes of launching their first phase of bike share locations in the spring of 2014 (Anspach, 2013). So what is bike sharing? Bike sharing is an innovative mode of transit that can be used by anyone with a credit or debit card. Station locations with multiple bicycles docked and ready for use are scattered throughout cities, mainly in commercial districts, employment centers, and neighborhoods where people live. The idea is that users, whether commuting to work, home, or grabbing dinner can lease a bike from a nearby station and be on their way.
Cincinnati’s Central Business district is the first phase of what seems to be an extensive bike share program for the area. In the initial phase, 20 stations will be installed from banks of the Ohio, north through the central business district, into lower Over-the-Rhine. Phase two, which is an extension into Uptown, plans to install another 15 stations in around University of Cincinnati’s two area campuses and north to Clifton Gaslight (Anspach, 2013). The third phase is looking to incorporate Northern Kentucky into the network. B-Cycle has been in coordination with the Green Umbrella Organization to identify location sites in three Northern Kentucky cities that are accessible from the CBD and directly adjacent to downtown Cincinnati. According to Jason Barron from B-cycle, Covington, Newport, and Bellevue all have the characteristics and local support to become a part of the third phase of the Cincinnati regional bike share program. For the purpose of this analysis, and with direction from B-Cycle, we have been asked to help determine ideal locations for bike share stations in these cities and form a comprehensive list to begin the planning phase of the Northern Kentucky expansion.
VISION
“Our vision for this project was to identify 15-25 bike share station locations in Covington, Newport, and Bellevue based on a quantitative spatial analysis that creates profitable, equitable, highly visible, and easily accessible points for the use in further planning and implementation of the Northern Kentucky bike share expansion.”
In recent years, bike share programs have become a new and highly desirable option for transportation in cities across the world. B-cycle, a private collaboration between Humana, Trek Bicycles Corporation, and Crispin Porter & Bogusky, is an industry leader in bike share program facilitating. They have implemented over thirty bike share systems worldwide in cities like Austin, Denver, Charlotte, Santiago, Chile (B-cycle, 2013), and Cincinnati is next! B-cycle has been actively creating a plan and implementation strategy for the Cincinnati region with hopes of launching their first phase of bike share locations in the spring of 2014 (Anspach, 2013). So what is bike sharing? Bike sharing is an innovative mode of transit that can be used by anyone with a credit or debit card. Station locations with multiple bicycles docked and ready for use are scattered throughout cities, mainly in commercial districts, employment centers, and neighborhoods where people live. The idea is that users, whether commuting to work, home, or grabbing dinner can lease a bike from a nearby station and be on their way.
Cincinnati’s Central Business district is the first phase of what seems to be an extensive bike share program for the area. In the initial phase, 20 stations will be installed from banks of the Ohio, north through the central business district, into lower Over-the-Rhine. Phase two, which is an extension into Uptown, plans to install another 15 stations in around University of Cincinnati’s two area campuses and north to Clifton Gaslight (Anspach, 2013). The third phase is looking to incorporate Northern Kentucky into the network. B-Cycle has been in coordination with the Green Umbrella Organization to identify location sites in three Northern Kentucky cities that are accessible from the CBD and directly adjacent to downtown Cincinnati. According to Jason Barron from B-cycle, Covington, Newport, and Bellevue all have the characteristics and local support to become a part of the third phase of the Cincinnati regional bike share program. For the purpose of this analysis, and with direction from B-Cycle, we have been asked to help determine ideal locations for bike share stations in these cities and form a comprehensive list to begin the planning phase of the Northern Kentucky expansion.
VISION
“Our vision for this project was to identify 15-25 bike share station locations in Covington, Newport, and Bellevue based on a quantitative spatial analysis that creates profitable, equitable, highly visible, and easily accessible points for the use in further planning and implementation of the Northern Kentucky bike share expansion.”
REFERENCE
Anspach, E. (2013, February 3). Cincinnati Aims to Open Initial Phase of Bike Share System This Summer. Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Urban Cincy: Connecting the region to its urban core: http://www.urbancincy.com/2014/02/cincinnati-aims-to-open-initial-phase-of-bike-share-system-this-summer/
Associated Press. (2014, February 8). Cincinnati to start bike-share program this summer. Retrieved April 11, 2014, from The News Herald: http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20140208/cincinnati-to-start-bike-share-program-this-summer
B-cycle. (2013, October 25). B-cycle Launches in Santiago, Chile. Retrieved April 9, 2014, from B-cycle: https://www.bcycle.com/tabid/75/itemid/561/news.aspx
Anspach, E. (2013, February 3). Cincinnati Aims to Open Initial Phase of Bike Share System This Summer. Retrieved April 9, 2014, from Urban Cincy: Connecting the region to its urban core: http://www.urbancincy.com/2014/02/cincinnati-aims-to-open-initial-phase-of-bike-share-system-this-summer/
Associated Press. (2014, February 8). Cincinnati to start bike-share program this summer. Retrieved April 11, 2014, from The News Herald: http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20140208/cincinnati-to-start-bike-share-program-this-summer
B-cycle. (2013, October 25). B-cycle Launches in Santiago, Chile. Retrieved April 9, 2014, from B-cycle: https://www.bcycle.com/tabid/75/itemid/561/news.aspx