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Free-Floating Bike Share Pilot Evaluation Report June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation Seattle Department of Transportation 1 Date (xx/xx/xxxx) Department Name Page Number Presentation Outline National Overview

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June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation 1 June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation

Free-Floating Bike Share Pilot Evaluation Report

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Presentation Outline

National Overview of Bike Share and Scooter Share
Background of Pilot and Permit Design
Evaluation Process
Pilot period ridership data
Public Opinion and Areas for Improvement
Next Steps

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Growth in Free-floating Bike Share

January 2017
Zero free-floating bikes in the US.
December 2017
5 major companies
25 Cities
44,000 Bikes
So far this year
E-bikes and scooters growing
Failed FL and OK legislation

Photo credit: The Washington Post

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June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation 4

Bike Share in Seattle – Permit Approach

Spring 2017 – Seattle only

major US city without bike share

July 2017 – SDOT launches

year-long free-floating pilot

Permit private operators
Regulate operations
Collect fees and data
No cost to the City

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June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation 5

Bike Share in Seattle - Overview

3 Companies
Spin (San Francisco)
Lime (San Francisco)
Ofo (Beijing)
July 31, 2017: 1,500 bikes
Dec 31, 2017: 10,000 bikes
Today:
8,600 Conventional Bikes
1,400 E-bikes

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June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation 6

Pilot Bike Share Evaluation - Data

Collaboration with

University of Washington

UW collects & reports to

SDOT

Data collected from July –

December 2017

Trip starts and ends
Bike GPS pings
User Survey data

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June 5, 2018 Seattle Department of Transportation 7

Pilot Bike Share Evaluation - Qualitative

Statistically-valid citywide

survey with EMC

2 open surveys with Survey

Monkey

Disability Specific Workshop
12 Community Group &

Advocate Meetings

134 emails received
Parking Compliance Study

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Evaluation Results - Ridership

10,000 Total Bikes 468,000 Total Rides

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Evaluation Results

Citywide Coverage

Concentrated in:
Center City, U-District, Burke-Gilman
Better than expected:
Rainier Valley, Industrial District,

Georgetown

Improvement Needed:
Edges of city
Southwest Seattle

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Safetyand Helmets

5 reported collisions
No reported serious injuries
Only 24% reported using helmets
Preliminary UW/Harborview Study:
No increase in head injury risk with

bike share

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Types of Trips

Usage data shows weekday PM peak
People used bike share to access:
social and leisure activities
errand & appointments
work
Only 6.8% used bike share only for

recreation & exercise

75% used bike share to access transit

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User Demographics

62% Male, 38% Female
Potential for more use by women
Most users between 25-44
Roughly 1/3 of city has tried bike share
36% of Hispanic & African-American

survey respondents have tried bike share

32% of Asian respondents have tried bike

share

32% of White respondents have tried bike

share

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Public Opinion Survey

74% Favorable
33% of city has tried bike

share

33% not tried but willing
33% not willing

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Public Opinion Survey

Top likes:
Reduced carbon emissions
More fun to get around
Not worried about bikes getting

stolen

Top Dislikes:
Too many bikes mis-parked
Not enough comfortable bike

routes

Too many scofflaws

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Public Opinion - Public Comment

85% of comments received via

email & phone were unfavorable

Bad or incorrect parking
Pedestrian access and safety
The bikes are ugly or clutter
Companies unresponsive
People don’t wear helmets

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Parking and Disability Access Concerns

Parking was the biggest challenge
Issues:
Blocked sidewalks
Blocked curb ramps
Blocked transit access
Blocked business access
Tipped bikes
Study showed 70% of bikes are

parked correctly and 4% fully blocking

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Designated Bike Parking Pilot

Five locations in Ballard
Better organize parking
Spots are being used, especially

recently

Build capacity for more bikes

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Equity Analysis

Served all of Seattle, including

some high-priority neighborhoods

Highest-priority neighborhoods

not well served

Companies need to do more to:
Rebalance to high-priority

neighborhoods

Lower barriers, including

financial, technological, banking, and knowledge

Trip Origins Equity Score

Aggregate of Seattle 2035 Displacement Risk and Access to Opportunity indices, by neighborhood.

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Next Steps

June 19th – Present Updated

Permit to Sustainability and Transportation Committee

June 25th – Possible full Council

vote

June 29th – Roll out new permit

regulations

July 31st – New permit in place

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Questions?

Joel Miller Bike Share Program Manager Seattle Department of Transportation Joel.Miller@Seattle.gov 206-684-7639

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Evaluation Results - Ridership

Total Rides: 468,972 Rides per Month

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Age

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Weekday Trip Time

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Weekend Trip Time

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Rides per bike per day

Rides per Bike per Day: 0.84

RBD fell as number of bikes

went up and weather grew colder

RBD is very important to

dock-based systems

RBD is less important to

SDOT than mobility metric

f rides per day