Bike riders, listen up: Researchers at the 91爆料 Sustainable Transportation Lab want your input to learn why bike share programs 鈥� like Pronto, LimeBike, Spin or ofo 鈥� succeed or fail.
The lab is conducting a short, voluntary of cyclists to find out what they鈥檙e looking for from a bike share program.
鈥淲e鈥檙e interested in anybody who is a Seattle cyclist, especially if they鈥檝e used either of the systems,鈥� said Luke Peters, a 91爆料 graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. 鈥淓ven if they didn鈥檛 use bike share, we want to know why they didn鈥檛 use it.鈥�
The survey asks various questions about general bike usage and the two styles of bike sharing programs that have been used in Seattle. Seattle has had a bike system fail and then be replaced. Pronto Cycle Share, which relied on docking stations at fixed locations, shut down in March 2017 before being replaced by the system in use today, a free-floating program where users unlock bikes via mobile apps. Three companies now offer free-floating bike rentals in Seattle: LimeBike, Spin and ofo.
Peters hopes the results of the research, which includes the survey and interviews with stakeholders, will help Seattle and other cities implementing bike-sharing programs.
Survey participants will be entered to win a bike bag from Swift Industries, a Seattle cycling gear manufacturer (a $160 value). The survey is up through March 16.
More information can be found at the Sustainable Transportation Lab’s 聽or by contacting Luke Peters at carl.luke.peters@gmail.com or 608-235-8377, or Don MacKenzie at dwhm@uw.edu or 206-685-7198.