[Save] FW: [E&S-seminars] March 10 - Tech Bikes: Model for Sustainable Transport

[Amanda Graham]

With apologies for cross-postings

 

This seminar will share the results of Professor Jeff Steinfeld's fall 2003
Freshman Advising Seminar.  It's a great project - I encourage all to attend
the seminar!

 

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Amanda C. Graham, Ph.D.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Subject: [E&S-seminars] March 10 - Tech Bikes: Model for Sustainable
Transport

 

Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

<http://lfee.mit.edu>

 

 

TECH BIKES: MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT ON LOCAL SCALE

 

Atif Qadir '04 (Architecture/Urban Planning) and Damon Vander Lind '07
(Physics)

 

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

E40-496

 

Abstract

 

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. 

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.  

 

Light refreshments will be provided.

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