Facilities & Services (F&S) updated the Near Far Without a Car flyer (or CarFree Flyer) in August 2019. This flyer lists the alternative modes of transportation available at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It also consists of essential safety information, such as SafeRides, SafeWalks, DRES shuttles, Bicycle Safety Tips, Bike Registration, etc.
VeoRide e-bikes are here. VeoRide is going to replace 150 of their regular pedal bikes with the new e-bikes in the near future.
The VeoRide e-bikes are here. Ben Thomas is holding a launch event for the VeoRide e-bikes between Foellinger and the Undergrad Library today (April 3rd, 2019) from 10 am to 2 pm. Stop by if you can for a free trial ride!
News-Gazette published an editorial on March 20, 2019, regarding the assessment of Bike Sharing expansion for VeoRide in UofI and the cities of Champaign and Urbana. Please see attached
Hi Everyone,
The University has been approached many times by students and others about the possibility of implementing a bike sharing program, and the 2010 iCAP included a goal to create a bike sharing program by 2012.
UI officials working on incentives to keep shared bikes in populated areas
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Attached are the meeting minutes from the iWG meeting that was held on April 9th, 2018.
The committee approved the bike share scope change to purchase bike parking.
Hello Transportation SWATeam members,
Thank you again for your willingness to help our campus achieve the Climate Leadership Commitments. There is great value provided by the bi-weekly meetings of student, faculty, and staff representatives evaluating our progress and recommending additional actions campus units could take.
The following is a list of current activities I am aware of, and suggestions I have about useful next steps. I am happy to follow up with you on any of these, as needed.
Thank you very much,
~Morgan
The iBike report from the test phase is attached here.
Hello all, This past week was very busy. We had a lot of people come in and either volunteer to fix their bikes. The shop grossed $70. I got a lot done with cleaning the space out. We had far too many bikes donated that were directed to this shop. I am not going to be able to accept any more bikes for a while. I scrapped upwards of 30 bikes sawing them into pieces and putting them in boxes. It was so bad the boxes themselves made the whole back of the shop inaccessible. They got removed Friday by Todd so we wont have to deal with that issue any more. The shop is very well stocked w
The attached file is a draft bike checkout sheet. This can be modified for future uses.
In Spring 2011, SSC funded a bike sharing feasibility study, and it established a three-tier approach to bike sharing. However, it was found that no improvements to developing a bike sharing could begin until the bike infrastructure was significantly improved. In the last 4 years, there have been vast improvements and new infrastructure plans are continuing to be implemented.
Administrative Information Technology Services (AITS) has played a large role in leading this discussion and is working with Facilities & Services to try to implement a bike share program before Fall 2014. AITS hopes to partner with other departments on campus to create a cohesive and connected bike share system within the University.
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.
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.
Facilities & Services has hired Grace Kyung, a Masters of Urban Planning student to work on bicycle sharing for campus during the ‘13-’14 school year. This will be a 25% assistantship, focusing primarily on departmental bike sharing first, and then on bike rentals and a campus-wide bike share program for the general public. Funding for this GRA position is being provided by Administrative Information Technology Services (AITS).
