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font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
environmental-seminars-bounces@MIT.EDU
[mailto:environmental-seminars-bounces@MIT.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Karen Gibson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 04, 2004
11:08 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
environmental-seminars@mit.edu; tpp03@mit.edu; tpp02@mit.edu; tpp01@mit.edu;
tmp-tpp@mit.edu; pugwash-request@mit.edu; sci-tech-students@mit.edu;
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [E&S-seminars] March
10 - Tech Bikes: Model for Sustainable Transport</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series<br>
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>TECH BIKES: MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT ON LOCAL SCALE</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Atif Qadir '04 (Architecture/Urban Planning) and Damon Vander Lind '07
(Physics)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Wednesday, March 10, 2004</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>E40-496</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Tech Bikes is a transportation program that provides a fleet of
bicycles for use by members of the MIT community. It bridges the divide
between mobility and access left by MBTA buses and subway, SafeRide, Tech
Shuttle, private vehicles and simply walking. It offers an on-demand,
efficient, health-conscious, and environmentally-safe alternative. Campus
surveys and initial meetings with administrators have supported both the
feasibility and impact of such a program at MIT, building on small bike share
programs at Sidney-Pacific Dormitory and Pika. The University of Rhode
Island and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are in the early stages
of implementing campus-wide versions. Tech Bikes plans to run a
dorm-based pilot program at East Campus in anticipation of implementation at
the dorm and select other locations. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Tech Bikes will make MIT the first university to implement low-cost,
student-designed Intelligent Bike Racks using card reader technology and remote
access for bike share, which radically increases ease of use and rider
accountability. Until now, only wealthy municipalities with government
support could afford such a system. The goal of Tech Bikes is to not only
improve our own campus, but use it as a model for municipalities and
universities that have few transportation options or are in search of low-cost
and environmentally-conscious transport. For example, the Department of
Transportation of the City of Cambridge is supporting Tech Bikes with in-kind
donations in anticipation of expanding the program to the surrounding community.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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contact Karen Gibson, kgibson@mit.edu</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Karen L. Gibson</span></font></p>
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