Bikes and Buses – the missing link in promoting cycling and integrated transport. The bus-racks potential for promoting cycling and active travel. 

Carrying bikes on the front of buses is the obvious and visible way to promote cycling.  Most of the buses in North America are now fitted with versions of the 2 or 3 bike Sportworks rack, now joined by cities in Australia and New Zealand.  These are popular with tourist and leisure cyclists, commuters, students, shoppers, or simply as a re-assurance measure – bad weather or an emergency.  They also have a great marketing value.

This presentation will be a summary of the current position, and the potential for cities around the UK.  

Peter Davenport, Director, Bikes On Buses & Adam Reynolds, Chair, Bath Cycle Campaign

WEGO Couriers

WEGO Couriers are the market leaders for future city logistics and have been developing a shared user network. Which is now represented as part of a Last Mile Logistic pilot for the European H2020 project. Since 1998 WEGO couriers have been protecting our future cities by providing a carbon neutral delivery solution to Nottingham and, more recently, Leicester and London. Our fleet of electric vehicles and cargo bicycles deliver a variety of items within the city environment and nationally by utilising secure space on passenger trains for a faster, more efficient delivery method that reduces carbon emissions, not only in the city centre, but on a national scale.

Helen Brewin, General Manager, WEGO Couriers

Improving Leicester’s online Journey Planner:  Identifying missing local foot and cycle paths via community group street surveys and mapping parties

Leicester’s Air Quality Walking Project aims to eliminate gaps in the mapping of local footpaths and cycle routes on Open Street Map. This will improve the data which feeds the city and county council’s online Journey Planner (see  www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk/jp/), making this tool more useful to the public when planning their journeys by bike or on foot.  Supported by trained volunteers, this project will run a series of community group walks to survey selected areas of the city. It will also establish mapping groups to implement the necessary foot/cycle path updates to the Leicester area on Open Street Map. By encouraging members of the community to survey their local area on foot, we aim to encourage participants to walk more often.

Sara Coy, Active Travel Training Coordinator (Walking), Leicester City Council

Cycle Infrastructure Trials

How TfL are carring out trails both on and off-street to improve cycle infrstruture in London

Helen Adlington, Design Manager TfL in-house design team (Outcomes Delivery)

Newcastle City Council – E Bike Trial

Robert Snowball, Senior Specialist Transport Planner, Newcastle City Council

Newcastle City Council, worked to set up a trial of electric bikes for older people at Vale House in Sandyford, Newcastle.  Vale House is a block of flats for over 55s and the tenants association there will take responsibility for the diary for the bikes and arranging maintenance with the a local CiC.  Bikes are supplied with helmets, locks, lights and panniers.  Training has been offered to residents.  In this session, a discussion of the project and some outcomes will be discussed.  

Bath and North East Sommerset

Jessica Fox-Taylor, LSTF Project Manager, BATHNES

Bath is a small city with a population of only 83,000, and a challenging topography. So how has it managed to successfully deliver a cycle hire project?
LSTF Project Manager for Bath and North East Somerset, Jessica Fox-Taylor, explains how the project was re-specified and marketed to maximise the tourist and student market, and where the city hopes to go next. 

Reading's New "EasyGo" Smartcard and Multimodal Hubs, Including Reading's Cycle Hire Scheme

Reading's new "EasyGo" scheme includes a multimodal travel smartcard and multimodal hubs funded by the DfT as a Car Club Demonstration Project. The "EasyGo" card unlocks the Car Club, bike hire and bus travel as well as earning points to spend at local outlets for each sustainable journey made. 

Marian Marsh, Transport Planner, Reading Borough Council

Why e-bikes are important and making them attractive with tax breaks

Rob Howes, Managing Director, Green Commute Initiative 

The Green Commute Initiative is about increasing commuter’s awareness of e-bikes and letting them experience how they are not only viable as a commuting vehicle but positively make commuting fun! By using available tax breaks the Green Commute Initiative offers savings of up to 42% from the RRP of e-bikes and means commuters can pay for the bikes monthly. Employers also benefit and can either make a ROI of around 130% or can finance the acquisition of the bikes and still make around 7% of the value of the bikes in tax savings.

We believe e-bikes are part of the future of commuting and we’re making them affordable!

Outcomes Monitoring of Centro’s Cycling Engagement Programme

Tim McCann, Principal Consultant, AECOM

Centro’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) Cycling Engagement Programme has delivered a wide range of cycling activities and support within Birmingham & Solihull, the Black Country and Coventry, between April 2013 and March 2016. Output and outcome monitoring has been embedded into all activities from the start of the programme, enabling the project team to better understand the observed changes in travel behaviour, and the relationships with cycling investment over the period.  

Innovative ideas in inclusive cycling

Jim McGurn, Get Cycling

Get Cycling CiC are a social enterprise well known for their events and programmes for the public sector. Not many know that they are also the UK's largest supplier of disability cycles, assessment services and inclusive cycling events. Their companion cycling work has been heavily featured on y specialise in Jim McGurn, Chief Executive of Get Cycling, will be sharing 15 years of experience in disability cycling, and suggesting innovative ways of launching and maintaining local inclusive cycling groups.

Big Birmingham Bikes

5000 free bikes delivered to the most deprived people of Birmingham, supported by behaviour change measures to encourage more people cycling more of the time. Volunteer recruitment. GPS tracking of all cycle activity to measure investment impact and cost benefits analysis and health improvement. Annual Cycle Festival One year on.

Brynn Lewis, Cycling Project Manager, Birmingham City Council

Cycling as a tool of change: Using data and technology to release the benefits of cycling

Love to Ride explore data trends and insights from their global behaviour change programmes. By crafting and developing a unique approach that achieves measurable levels of change, this speed learning session will explore programme outcomes from around the world and how a highly flexible approach and platform is the best tool for change at a local level.

Sam Robinson, General Manager, Love to Ride

CycleStreets and Cyclescape: journey planning and data collection tools

CycleStreets, the cycle journey planning people, has created Cyclescape, a toolkit for discussion of traffic schemes, policy, planning applications - anything relevant to achieving more cycling. It provides a forum-like system, features integrated collision data, Planning Application feeds (>50% UK), web/e-mail replies, a resource library, Street View replies, and more.

Martin Lucas-Smith, Developer, CycleStreets​ 

How do we engage businesses to improve streets?

Sustrans street design projects work closely with local communities to help them redesign their neighbourhood affordably, putting people back at its heart and making it safer, more attractive and more conducive to walking and cycling. How can we encourage businesses on local high streets to be part of improving our streets? 

Tim Pheby, Engineering Manager, North East, Sustrans