Bicycle and Transit Integration Guide (APTA)
Bicycles are a useful mode of transportation for short trips (one to three miles) beyond walkable distance but accessible without an automobile. Municipalities across North America are developing strategies to facilitate biking as a mode of transportation with a place-based mix of on-street facilities and bike-friendly policies. As these same communities leverage public transit assets in planning for development, it is critical for public officials, planners and advocates to recognize opportunities for active transportation connections to facilitate enhanced transit customer mobility, public health and economic development. Prioritizing bicycle routes to transit stops and stations, reducing traffic,and improving bicycle and transit integration (bike parking, bikes-on-board capacity) is essential to getting transit customers out of their cars and on a bicycle for the first or last mile of travel. Bicycle and transit integration strategies are context-driven based on the dynamic needs of individual communities.
This guide represents a series of recommended best practices and solutions for facilitating bicycle integration with transit services, and is informed by the experiences of a diverse variety of transit agencies across North America. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to transit agencies and municipalities seeking to facilitate active first/last mile connections to transit, reduce congestion and promote healthy communities.
Author: American Public Transit Association (APTA)
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