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- Associated Project(s):
New Bike Code released
Associated Project(s):August 31, 2014
The University Bicycle Ordinance, also referred to as the University Bicycle Code, was updated for campus-specific rules such as bicycle parking and registration, as well as riding bicycles on campus property. Increased enforcement of the code started this semester. This ordinance is included in the Campus Administrative Manual (VIII-22).
Stacey DeLorenzo • Facilities & Services
Bike Code approved
Associated Project(s):The University Bicycle Ordinance, referenced in CAM VIII-22. Bicycle Regulations, was approved by the CAM committee on May 15, 2014. The plan was to have enforcement of the ordinance to begin at the start of the Fall 2014 semester. During the fall semester, enforcement would be focused on education, with only safety-related citations being issued.
The link below is the approved version of the ordinance.
University Sourcing informed about SmartWay opportunity
Associated Project(s):From: Milbrandt, Janet
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:02 PM
To: Lavey, Warren Gary; McCall, Benjamin; Bartels, Bart A
Cc: Bohlen, Kayci; Taylor, Mark A
Subject: RE: new State of Illinois UPS contractI am forwarding you to the Sourcing Office for the University of IL.
From: Lavey, Warren Gary
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:27 AM
To: Milbrandt, Janet; McCall, Benjamin; Bartels, Bart A
Subject: new State of Illinois UPS contractHello, Janet. The State of Illinois is implementing a new contract with UPS for ground and air package delivery services. UIUC is an eligible customer under this contract.
This contract was awarded pursuant to the Illinois Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act of 2013, with environmental factors comprising 20 percent of the bidder evaluation criteria. The contract includes provisions for tracking emissions and fuel consumption related to the services provided. Alternative fuels, including biofuels, and cleaner vehicles are encouraged for UPS's services under this contract. I don't have any information on the rates under the new contract.
Can you arrange a meeting with UIUC's UPS contract representative to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of migrating UIUC's shipments from UIUC's existing UPS contract to the new State of Illinois contract? I would like to participate in this meeting.
Thanks and best wishes.
Champaign County Greenways and Trails Plan completed
Associated Project(s):Active Choices: the Champaign County Greenways & Trails (GT) Plan has been finalized, and can be found on the CCRPC website here: http://www.ccrpc.org/greenways/documents.php.
Links are currently posted on the CCRPC and CUUATS Homepages, and can always be found on the GT Homepage.
Department of Energy Program
Associated Project(s):The Parking Department may choose to utilize this Department of Energy Program for promoting public use EV charging stations.
Allerton Park Bike Share
Associated Project(s):Allerton Park is a valuable but underutilized property owned by the University of Illinois. The Allerton Park Bike Share project intends to improve Allerton Park and make it more attractive to the campus population and the community at large through the installation of a bike share system. In addition to providing an attractive service for visitors, this project will also help promote green transportation when traveling around the 1,517 acre estate.
Sheltered Bicycle Parking
Associated Project(s):Providing safe and convenient locations for bicycle parking is one of the key ways the University can support increased bicycle ridership and greener commuting. The goal of this project is to construct a secure, sheltered bicycle parking area for students, faculty, and staff at the Chemical and Life Sciences Building and the Roger Adams Laboratory. These parking structures are modeled after the sheltered bicycle parking currently located at the Ikenberry Commons.
Attached Files:- Sheltered Bicycle Parking Signed Letter.pdf
- Sheltered Bicycle Parking for Chemical and Life Sciences Building and Roger Adams Laboratory.docx
- SSC_Application_Sheltered_Bike.xlsx
- Cover Letter for Sheltered Bicycle Parking.pdf
- Example Models for Sheltered Bicycle Parking.png
- Sheltered Bicycle Parking for Chemical Life Sciences Building and Roger Adams Laboratory unsigned letter.docx
- ssc step 2 application_4-18.xlsx
- Sweedler-bicycle support.pdf
Composites in Aviation
Associated Project(s):Student Aircraft Builders (SAB) is an organization dedicated to teaching students from all across campus how to work together as a team to successfully construct a flyable airplane. The goal of the Composites in Aviation project has two phases. The first phase constructs a quarter scale glider powered by alternative energy. The second phase graduates from a model to a full-sized glider. Through the use of composite materials and an innovate design from an aerospace engineer, the finished glider will exemplify the future of more fuel-efficient long-range flight.
SSC approval of scope/schedule change
Associated Project(s):SSC approved the scope and schedule change for the Campus Bike Center.
Attached Files:Digital sign details
Associated Project(s):Campus Rec and Housing have their own protocols for placing digital signage ads. http://www.housing.illinois.edu/Policies/Electronic%20Signage.aspx - HOUSING http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/sponsors/ - CR
Request for scope/schedule change to SSC
Associated Project(s):F&S requested that SSC funding from FY14 and FY13 for the Campus Bike Center be allowed to be used for the Campus Bike Center in FY15.
- There is $2,224.50 remaining of the funding allocation for the “Campus Bike Project” from FY13. I am requesting permission from the SSC to use these funds during FY15, for staff and student employee costs. This is not a change in scope, just a schedule change to permit FY15 use of funds.
- The current funding allocation for the “Campus Bicycle Shop” in FY14 included specific items for the funding in support of the Bike Center. I am requesting permission to use any remaining funds from this year’s allocation during FY15, for staff and student employee costs.
~Morgan Johnston
Attached Files:Allerton pursuing a bike sharing system
Associated Project(s):The attached Manual was developed with students and Amelia Neptune over the last few years. The most helpful part of this document is the liability Q&A that Tina helped create. I cleaned the file up a bit this morning to fix broken links and check for any glaring errors.
To bring you and those copied here up to speed, I’ll share a few points that are happening with bike sharing now.
- The successfully implemented bike sharing on campus is at Kinesiology and Community Health. They have six bikes for employee use, and wrote a research report about the usage (attached). They simply have the keys at a desk with a sign-out list, and they send the bikes for maintenance once a year. The contact person is Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko at Kinesiology.
- This summer, the MTD is planning to start working with campus and the cities to investigate a public bike sharing system, and that conversation is just beginning. The contact person is Rebecca Nathanson at MTD.
- AITS is planning to set up a departmental bike sharing program, in cooperation with the Campus Bike Center and iSEE. The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (CUPHD) is planning to contribute funds towards administrative support for maintaining the bikes. It is likely that 10-20 bikes will be purchased from “On Bikes,” which comes with a locking and tracking system.
- Grace Kyung has had numerous conversations with Zagster, which was formed by former staff at Zipcar. Their system is an all-inclusive turn-key approach, where you pay a set-up fee, then pay a recurring monthly fee for maintenance and oversight. The set up fee is around $2000 per bike and the monthly fee is about $100 per bike. The bikes then continue to belong to Zagster. I did not support the Zagster model for campus employee use, but it may be reasonable for Allerton’s intended use. If you are interested, their CEO is visiting town on Thursday.
Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with to get this set up.
Thanks,
Morgan
On May 23, 2014, at 4:07 PM, "McEllin, Tina D" wrote:Hi Derek,
To start I’m going to refer you to Morgan Johnston, Assoc. Director of Sustainability. I believe Morgan has a draft manual for depts. to use when setting up programs for employees. I don’t know if it will address offering this service to the public so you may have to add language to that effect.
Since you will have the public liability issue I would like to review your draft manual to make sure exposure to the University is controlled as much as possible. Please feel free to call me with any questions.
Thank you.
Tina McEllin, Assoc. Dir.
University Office of Risk Management
247 Henry Admin. Bldg. M-C 337
506 S. Wright St., Urbana IL 61801
PH 217-333-3113
FX 217-239-6744
Check out our website! www.uirisk.uillinois.edu
Please note: Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), any written communication to or from University employees regarding University business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.
From: Peterson, Derek Eli
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 3:51 PM
To: Kale, PJ; McEllin, Tina D
Cc: Kevin Donovan
Subject: Allerton Park and Retreat CenterGood Afternoon PJ and Tina-
Joe Vitosky said the two of you might be a good start for me, I need some advice. Allerton Park is going to start a Bike Rental, or Bike Share program. I am interested to know if any other units, or if there is any standard documentation that might assist me through this process. We have researched other local entities that do bike share and rental and so we have some standard language, but we will be offering this to the public, so we need to make sure the University if legally covered. As I type I feel underprepared to ask this question, but I thought you might have some advice for me to help get me started.
Thank you for your time-
--
Derek Peterson
Associate Director
Allerton Park & Retreat Center
University of Illinois
515 Old Timber Road
Monticello, IL 61856
O 217.333.3287, ext. 203
M 217-778-9111
Notes from meeting
Associated Project(s):I took some notes from my conversation with Jennifer Bechtel the Program Director from the Innovation and Sustainability LLC who wants to start a bike share. Here are the notes as I took them. I hope this will help you to understand what is going on.
- Wants to have 6 or so bikes for bike share 120 students 10-15 using and helping to repair.
- Wants to bring students over here to learn how to fix bikes 1 x per month or semester depending on maintenance rates and usage.
- Would like to explore a possible group membership for her resident hall or their bike share.
- The idea is there are so many students who don't know anything about bikes. She wants to use it to help students get feet wet with bikes learn how useful they are and encourage private ownership.
- This would be a pilot program for this housing dept and may want to expand.
- Wants quality bikes that can be maintained on our model of teaching people how to fix them.
- Wants students to be involved in keeping bikes running.
- Jennifer wants to learn herself so she can be the consistent person for the bike share because of the turn over with the students and staff.
- They are installing a outdoor fix-it station outside their building.
- She would want to use us our facilities and model to have students fix the bikes.
- Wants students to end up buying a bike.
- Looking for a place to store the bikes in the winter if no one is willing to ride/maintain the bikes.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James Roedl
Introductory meeting with James and Jennifer
Associated Project(s):Jennifer from the Innovation and Sustainablility LLC came by to talk about a very small bike share pilot where the students learn to maintain bikes and are encouraged to become bike owning commuters. We discussed the matter and she has a lot of great ideas and would like to meet with us to discuss them. She has questions about maintenance, what bikes to get (she wants quality and ease of maintenance), how to maintain consistency with student turn over, a possible LLC membership or bike share membership with TBP, and many other things. I took notes on our conversation and she is going to try to make an overview of her ideas we can discuss it and find something that can work in the long term. This sounds like something we want to be a part of.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James RoedlBikes On Campus Day
Associated Project(s):Facilities & Services used funding from the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) in Spring 2014 t0 purchase incentives to increase bicycle usage. On Bikes on Campus Day, students were given free leg wraps, educational materials, bike maps, and pins if they stopped by the table. In addition, any bikes that were registered were given free bike lights or bike bell. There was also a raffle for those who brought a friend that normally does not bike to win either a free bike pump or bike lock.
Bicycle Ambassador Spoke Cards
Associated Project(s):Bicycles Ambassadors have decided to use "Hello, I'm a Bike Ambassador" spoke cards to be idenitfied on campus. These cards are being used as a point of reference for individuals to idenitify fellow bike ambassadors but to help those who may have bicycling questions. These cards represent those who believe in the power of bicycles and want to encourage others to use one as well. Look out for these cards around the CU area!
Sustainability Analysis of the Campus Bike Center
Associated Project(s):The Campus Bike Center opened for business in May 2010, funded by The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign, a grant from the Student Sustainability Committee, the Center for a Sustainable Environment, and supplementary funding from the Facilities and Services Department at UIUC[1]. The Center offers a hands-on, educational space in which students and community members can have access to knowledge and experience in maintaining and fixing bicycles, as well as all of the necessary tools and products to do so. The Center’s outlined mission is to teach bicycle maintenance, providing access to affordable equipment, support overall safety education, and participate in campus bicycle community outreach2. The Center also has described goals for sustainability; to contribute towards the ICAP goal to reduce transportation emissions by 50% in 2025, support those who use bicycles for transportation, to make bikes a more feasible alternative to motor vehicles on this campus, and to expand these efforts even more through increased outreach and publicity efforts, increased staff capacity, more events outside of the shop to reach new audiences, more refurbished bikes to sell to students, and more courses, workshops, and demonstrations to educate the campus about bikes2.
[1] Neptune, Amelia. Bike Shop Student Sustainability Committee Application. UIUC ICAP Portal. http://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project-updates/102. 11 Nov 2012. Accessed 8 May 2014.
Attached Files:Bike Funding Needs
Associated Project(s):In 2011, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was recognized as a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) by the League of American Bicyclists. This was in large part a result of efforts by Facilities & Services in cooperation with community partners, including the Bicycle Friendly Cities of Urbana and Champaign and Champaign County Bikes, which is dedicated to making Champaign County the most bicycle friendly county in the Midwest. The Student Sustainability Committee, Illinois Student Senate, and Dean of Students have added funding.
The BFU Bronze status expires in 2015, and campus needs to address several bicycle-related items in order to maintain Bronze status or achieve the Silver designation. Key points, status, timing, and approximate long-term funding needs are below.
Task
Status
Timing
Long-term Funding Needs
Approve Campus Bike Plan
final edits underway, then routing for approval from F&S and Campus
30-Jun-14
use existing staff time
Improve bikeway network
integrating some of these with street and capital projects, seeking grants
five to ten years
approximately $4 Million
Upgrade bike parking
over 150 parking locations are not up to acceptable standards
three to five years
approximately $400K
Adopt Campus Bike Code and bike registration system
final edits underway, then routing for approval; costs include tracking citations, and handling registration
approve by June 30, 2014
$5-$20k/year recurring
Campus Bicycle Coordinator over programs such as bike sharing and ambassadors
no funding available, currently managed part-time by a team of F&S
needed
$45k/year recurring
Bicycle Education maps, materials and classes
currently offered by the Campus Bike Center and Champaign County Bikes
ongoing
$5-$10k/year recurring
Campus Bike Center advocacy, education, and encouragement
recurring events, in collaboration with Champaign County Bikes and student advocacy groups
needed
$50k/year recurring
With increasing ridership over the last decade and an average of 5,000 bikes on campus during a typical hour, it is clear that bicycle-related needs should not be ignored. Bikeway improvements, parking upgrades, and a new bike code are in progress now; however, to keep the Bicycle Friendly status, campus should allocate $50,000 in FY15 for the Campus Bike Center (a collaboration between campus and The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign).
The Bike Center distributes UI registration stickers; maintains Bike Fix-it Stations; provides a central base for the bicycling community on campus; encourages mode-shift through various events and classes throughout the year; distributes educational resources regarding bicycling; educates students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors about basic bicycle maintenance; and collaborates with campus and community partners in bicycle-related programs. By keeping the Bike Center open, campus can spread awareness about the many improvements, increase safety, sustainability, and health on campus, and continue to offer education and encouragement events this coming year.
Attached Files:Strava heatmap suggestion
Associated Project(s):Hey Bike Team,
Found this awesome thing online today: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-120.90000/38.36000/blue/bike
It takes GPS data from Strava (an app people use to log bike and running mileage and share it with friends) and lays it over google maps. Kind of neat to see where people are biking on campus.
Hope you're all enjoying the weather.
Andy