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National Bike Summit 2017 BFU offerings

Monday – Bicycle Friendly Univ. Mobile Workshop at the U of Maryland
A first-time BFU focused mobile workshop offering at the Summit. Unfortunately, it’s full (as of 3/1/17). Will be posting photos and notes after returning from the Summit.

Lunch time afterwards with Steve Sanders, Jacob Adams, Aaron Goldbeck, Aaron Madrid and John Shrader – We promise: 2017 will be much more fun & diverse!

Tuesday evening Social get-together – Time – place TBD
We’re planning an informal after all the other parties, so if you’d like to meet and network with other higher ed bike people adding your name/ email to the poll below and we’ll make sure you get the info. on where/ when we’ll be getting together when everyone else is emailed.

Pano of the session — Pano of the 2016 BFU round-table session

Wed. Campus Bike Programmer Round-table Brunch – 10 am – 1pm
Rm. 3300 – Symons Hall, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, UMD (ask once inside the bldg. for further directions)
For those of you unable to participate in lobbying your legislators during the National Bike Summit 2017, get together with your fellow campus bike programmer – coordinator during brunch and enjoy an informal round-table discussion time. Pls. include your email address w/ your name so we can update you on meeting location, etc. http://doodle.com/poll/geruikckyg98qbsu

According to our host, Aaron Goldbeck, Bicycle Coordinator UMD, “Probably the best way to get there is to take the Metro to College Park and then use our bikeshare to get to campus. That is exactly what we are doing for the mobile workshop, so assuming that everyone coming to this meeting has done the workshop it should be pretty easy.”

Bicycle Friendly University Showcase Poster Sessions
The 2017 National Bike Summit will highlight innovative transportation research and bicycle-friendly programs and initiatives from bicycle-friendly campuses across the country. Colleges and Universities that participate in the League’s Bicycle Friendly University program are invited to present a poster showcasing their efforts and achievements.

POSTER SESSION DETAILS
All posters will be presented twice during the 2017 National Bike Summit:

Monday, March 6, 3:30-5:00pm
Renaissance Hotel & Conference Center (Room TBA)
RSVP: http://sched.co/9cgt
Poster set up: 3:15-3:30pm

Wednesday, March 8, 1:30-2:30pm
Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
RSVP: http://sched.co/95Ri
Poster set up: 1-1:30pm

Questions? Contact AMELIA NEPTUNE
Program Manager, Bicycle Friendly Business & University
AMELIA@BIKELEAGUE.ORG | 202-621-5457

51 New and Renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities Announced!

Northwest U BFU press-release-11-2016 — Northwestern Univ. in Evanston, IL, was one of the new BFUs this round.

Fantastic news to see so many of our members getting national recognition for their hard work making their campuses more bike friendly! 164 universities are recognized now!? Wow!

Here’s an excerpt from the League of American Bicyclists’ press release on Nov. 28, 2016:

“Today, the League of American Bicyclists announced 51 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities℠ (BFUs) from 25 states, There are now 164 BFUs in 44 states and Washington, DC, a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities around them.”

Read the full article here.

MSU Hosts First Bike Friendly America Conference

The Tour de MSU group poses in front of MSU’s mascot Sparty statue.

As members of the MSU’s Bike Advisory Committee analyzed what made the country’s five platinum-level Bike Friendly Universities so successful it became apparent that MSU needed to get their neighboring communities on board with the same vision to pursue becoming a platinum-level Bike Friendly Community. This led to reaching out to the League of American Bicyclists and deciding to bring one of their staff to the university to meet with the committee and facilitate meetings with neighboring community leaders.

Steve Sanders, Alternative Transportation Manager of U of MN, presented the UMN story.

As the cost estimates climbed the idea of turning the visit into a day conference started to come together. Eventually a new concept for a conference, a Bike Friendly America Conference, was hatched and after months of planning and seeking out sponsors, presenters and attendees the 1st ever conference of its type is now history.

The MSU team is now beginning to think about next year and whether to continue the conference on its campus or to encourage other universities to host it. Please contact Tim Potter if you’re interested in possibly hosting the event in 2017.

A wrap-up article featuring photos and video highlights can be seen here on the MSU Bikes’ blog.

1st Univ. Bike Program Session @ Natl. Bike Summit 2016

About twenty of us (including a couple vendors) had a great session at the National Bike Summit this March 2016 thanks to Amelia Neptune, the League of American Bicyclists’ Program Manager for their Bicycle Friendly Business & University programs. Aaron Goldbeck gave one formal presentation on some upcoming new bike programs at the Univ. of Maryland nearby the conference.

Hoping next year’s NBS meeting will be bigger and better! Amelia is excited about the potential.

We were in the official NBS agenda! Thx Amelia!

Lots of little plastic bikes to go around!

Showing off my Spartan pride on the Mall & my new Bikenomics shirt!

Bumped into Univ. Bike Program mbr Elizabeth Adamczyk at the wrap-up session in the Senate Hearing Room.

Getting pumped up by a Senator from Oregon.

Bicycle Friendly University Program Graduates to New Heights

It’s an exciting morning for 49 universities and colleges around the country who are new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities. This new list of BFUs represents a tremendous amount of work by hundreds if not thousands of people in these universities not to mention the monetary investments too in the effort to make campuses more bike friendly and educate the next generation on safe bicycling habits.

Read the League’s full press release here.

Keep up the great work everyone!

Survey of Valet Bike Parking for large campus events

Volunteer staff at MSU's VBP service. — MSU offered VBP services for a large event during late summer 2015 parking over 100 bikes out of 5,000 attendees. A combination of existing parking and temporary event parking eqpt. was used.

A survey was conducted by Tim Potter in early September 2015 to find out if and how universities are providing valet bike parking services for large events.

The survey itself is still open and is still accepting responses if you missed it earlier. Go here to participate.

Here are the live results.

Community VBP services for a large music festival — Scene during a large community music festival (E. Lansing, MI, summer 2015)

PBIC webinar “Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety on University Campuses”

Six of our MSU Bike Advisory Committee sat in on an excellent webinar titled “Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety on University Campuses”on October 16, 2015. It was hosted by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (which is housed within the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center) an excellent resource for all kinds of materials to help us make our campuses more bike friendly.

You can see the archived version here (both the Powerpoint and the audio recording): http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/training/webinars_PBIC_LC_101615.cfm

Excellent examples from 3 universities (U of WI-Milwaukee, UC- Berkeley, NCSU) that are doing some great work to make their campuses safer for everyone moving around.

Webinar report: State of Bike Share Technology for universities

smart-bike-lock We had 55 people (including the 5 presenters) on our first webinar on Wednesday! A smashing success. The technology worked and we covered everything we intended to within the alloted time. We hope that it was helpful for those of our members who are in the middle of considering the different options in starting up a bike “sharing” system or service.

Here are some links to the presentations:

Grace Kyung (formerly of Univ of Illinois – Champaign-Urbana: Presentation (Powerpoint)

Jessica Zdeb of Toole Design Group) : Presentati on (PDF)

Tim Potter, MSU Bikes: Presentation (Word file)

Russell Meddin, the man behind the The Bike-sharing World Map, Bike Share Philadelphia and The Bike-sharing Blog: Presentation Part 1 – Part 2 (PDFs)

Kurt Wallace Martin of Bikes Make Life Better: Presentation (Prezi)

Upcoming webinar: State of Bike Share Technology for universities

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Join us for our first network member webinar on June 16, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (EDT)!

Registration is now open here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/5134361227908182274

This is a free webinar for network members only that will provide an overview of bike sharing, the current state of university campus bike share, new smart lock technologies, and bike share feasibility analysis.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

We’ll be learning about the bike share tech. survey results from Grace Kyung (formerly of Univ of Illinois – Champaign-Urbana), hear from some industry consultants (Kurt Wallace Martin of Bikes Make Life Better and Jessica Zdeb of Toole Design Group) working w/ existing and up and coming bike share technology of various types as well as have input from industry expert Russell Meddin, the man behind the The Bike-sharing World Map, Bike Share Philadelphia and The Bike-sharing Blog.

This webinar will not be a sales pitch for products/ services, but an informational session to help our members best understand the current and coming technologies and how/if they might assist our schools expand bicycle use on our campuses. Note: Toole Design Group is providing the webinar infrastructure for this presentation, but note that your email address (required for registration) will not be used for any marketing purposes by Toole Design Group.

It will be recorded and archived for future reference for those who can’t “attend”.