Promoting Access and Innovation with Dockless Bike Share in Seattle, WA

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• Alternative Title:
  FHWA's Livable Communities Case Study Series: Promoting Access and Innovation with Dockless Bike Share in Seattle, WA
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Livability
  • Transportation planning
  • Environmental policy
  • Shared mobility
  • Bicycling
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HEP-19-008
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Washington
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The city of Seattle, Washington is the largest city in the state with a population of nearly 725,000 people. Despite the city's rainy climate and hilly topography, as of 2015 approximately four percent of the population regularly commuted to work by bicycle, which ranks fifth among large cities in the United States. Following the closure of the Pronto! docked bike share system in March of 2017, Seattle was left as the only large city in the United States without a bike share system. Bike sharing is rapidly growing and evolving nationwide, and provides a way to expand access to bicycling, as well as connections to transit. Without the necessary public funding and political will to revisit bike sharing, the loss of Pronto! left a void in Seattle's transportation system. In the months following the shuttering of the docked bike share system, city officials began to explore dockless bike share, which was just beginning to take hold in the country.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/62876/dot_62876_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 414.25 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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