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Bike Sharing in the City and County of

Denver

Parking and Mobility ServicesDenver Public Works, Transportation and Mobility

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Discussion today

• Bike share in Denver to date & recent stats• Docked vs. dockless 101• National bike sharing trends• Outstanding questions about next steps• Piloting dockless bike share in Denver• Questions

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A decade of bike sharing in US

• City owned or non-profit owned systems (Retail Model)• Station based (Smart Stations)• Low technology bikes (no brains in bikes)• No competing bike share operators in the same market

City Number of Stations

System Owner Pop. Density / Sq. Mile

Trips Taken / year

Capitol Funding Operating Funding (Non-system fees)

New York 645 Private 27,000 14M Private 5 year $40M sponsor

Chicago 581 Municipality 12,000 3.5M Grants & Sponsors 5 year $12.5M sponsor

Washington 437 Municipality 11,000 3M Grants & Sponsors DDOT funds operating deficit

Minneapolis 197 Non Profit 7000 400K Grants & Sponsors Sponsorships

Boston 184 Municipality 13,000 1M Grants & Sponsors Sponsorships

Portland 119 Municipality 4400 N/A Grants & Sponsors ~5 year $10M sponsor

Philly 105 Municipality 11,000 600K Grants & Sponsors Some sponsorship. City funds operating deficit

Denver 89 Non Profit 4000 350K Grants $650K sponsors

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Denver Bike Share stats 2017

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Major challenges B-cycle hasn’t solved

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Industry evolving

Smart bikes – lock to fixed objectsSmart Dock – Dumb Bike

Smart Bikes – lock to themselves Pedal Assist (e) bikeshare

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General Bike Share Trends

More private money• Venture capitol funds

More competition• More than one substantial bikeshare in a city

Less certainty• Dockless companies are startups, 2017 first

launched in US• Dockless concept has not been proven in US

Less public money• Less money from cities/governments to run systems

Less control• Cities not paying for or into systems = less control• Private companies may not share city goals

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Questions for Denver

Goal: What does Denver want bike sharing to achieve, and at what cost?• Bring bike sharing access to a larger portion of Denver’s population?• Replace more vehicle trips with bike share trips helping keep some cars

home?• Connect more people to transit stops, helping solve the first-mile/last-

mile transit issue?• Make bike sharing the an affordable mobility service in Denver?

Business model: What type of arrangements and partnerships have the highest likelihood of success and longevity and meet City goals?

Policies: How will use of the public right of way change as it relates to bike share?• Should the ability to park a bike anywhere in public right of way be

encouraged, or discouraged? Lock to fixed object or not?• What about accessibility? Keeping ROW free of clutter?• Competition in marketplace or issue exclusive contracts?• How do we enforce dockless or dock-lite bike share?

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Dockless in the US

Seattle, WA• Pronto – dock-based system closed in early 2017• Created dockless bikeshare pilot regulations in mid-2017• Currently around 10,000 bikes and 3 companiesDallas, TX• Small dock-based system• No regulations and allowed any bike share system to launch• Currently around 20,000 bikes and 5 operatorsWashington, DC• Capitol BikeShare is one of the largest docked-based systems in US• Allowed dockless bikeshare to launch – with a limited number of bikes• Currently around 1,700 dockless bikes and 5 companiesLos Angeles, CA• Recently launched (late 2016) Metro BikeShare –docked-based system• 3 or 4 dockless providers launched in February as a pilotSacramento, CA• Launching an e-assist bike share program later in 2018 (1 provider)• Updated ordinance to create more public bike parking

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DU Pilot

• Up to 1 year pilot

• 1 provider - ofo

• No more than 200 bikes

• Restricted to DU campus student, faculty & staff

• Trip data requirements

• ROW implications

• 3 different areas with rebalancing requirements• DU Campus (yellow)• CCD test area (red)• CCD

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• User behavior and utilization

• Operator responsiveness• Real costs of program

(hard and soft)• Evolutions/changes in the

industry

DU Pilot - What we will be watching

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Questions?