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FHWA E-bike Case Study Series: Philadelphia Bikeshare System Equitably Integrates E-Bikes into Fleet

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    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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    FHWA-HEP-23-027
  • Resource Type:
    Brief
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    Public Domain
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    The city of Philadelphia launched its bikeshare program, Indego, in 2015. Indego is a docked bikeshare system with 138 stations, 1,500 conventional bicycles, and almost 500 electric bicycles (e-bikes). The bicycles and stations are owned by the city of Philadelphia and manufactured by BCycle, LLC. The system is planned and managed by the city’s Office of Transportation & Infrastructure Systems and operated by Bicycle Transit Systems, a business responsible for maintenance of equipment, marketing, and customer service. To fund the system, the city has leveraged private dollars from JPB Foundation and William Penn Foundation, Pennsylvania’s Multimodal Transportation Fund, and Federal funds from the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement programs. A defining feature of the program has been a thematic and practical emphasis on equitable implementation that considers the racial and economic background of people the system serves. To that end, the system provides discounted ACCESS passes to low-income individuals, serving over 4,500 people since the program’s inception. Equity considerations have also informed docking station locations and programming and outreach efforts. The city is a member of the Better Bikeshare Partnership, an effort whose mission is to increase access to and use of shared micromobility systems in low-income and minority communities. Other partners include the National Association of City Transportation Officials, North American Bikeshare Association, and PeopleForBikes Foundation. This case study focuses on the city's addition of e-bikes to the bikeshare system.
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