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Capital Bikeshare Members

New survey finds members save about $800 annually on travel.
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Health Benefits of Bikeshare

New study shows that bikeshare improves health of riders and region in general.
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Bike to Work Day

Research shows that people who bike are the happiest commuters.
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Transportation for Business

Arlington has a great business climate, and transportation is big key.
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The Walking Revolution

The Surgeon General is betting that walking can pave the path of healthcare reform.
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Booming Business, Low Traffic

Traffic on Arlington’s main roads not booming like population and employment.
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Mobility Lab Research

We are a “think tank,” and one of our advantages is that we communicate research findings based on our real, daily in-house work within a huge, metropolitan region-wide program; with hundreds of thousands of customers; and with innovative mobility-management partners like BikeArlington, WalkArlington, Capital Bikeshare, Arlington Transportation Partners, goDCgo, The Commuter Stores®, and many others. We provide original research with statistics that can back up your case for how and why “mobility management” improves communities.

Mobility Lab & Partner Research

Arlington County, Virginia created Mobility Lab to tell the world about all the research we've done in regards to how to move people, not cars. This is our research about Arlington but also about many other places we've studied worldwide.

New Capital Bikeshare Studies Generate Social-Media Buzz
By Emily Landsman
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:33 PM
Here are the original Tweets from this morning's presentation and press conference at Mobility Lab to release two new Capital Bikeshare reports. There was a very active Twitterverse on the topic and hashtag #CaBiReports. Capital Bikeshare Releases Two New Survey Reports: Surveys Provide Detailed Data on Bikeshare Usage and Regional Impact.  ... Read more

Insight into Capital Bikeshare – From the People Who Use It
By Chris Eatough
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:00 PM
New Yorkers, take notice … Capital Bikeshare just released two new reports containing a wealth of information on its members and how they use the program. The reports contain valuable insights into the many benefits of bikesharing, such as travel cost savings, reduction in car use, health improvements, and local business  ... Read more

Healthy Benefits are Another Reason to Invest in Capital Bikeshare
By Juliellen Sarver
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:00 PM
Capital Bikeshare is a mobility management strategy that results in improved health – and health cost savings – of riders. Health Implications of the Capital Bikeshare Program, a study by George Washington University students, identifies promising findings that could make a strong impact on bikeshare members and people in the Washington  ... Read more

Capital Bikeshare to Release Two New Reports at Mobility Lab
By Paul Mackie
Monday, May 20, 2013 3:39 PM
Please join us for a press conference at Mobility Lab for the release of two new Capital Bikeshare reports. (At 12 p.m. EST this Wednesday, after the press conference, the reports will be available at Capital Bikeshare and further analysis will be published at Mobility Lab.) In the “2013 Capital Bikeshare Member  ... Read more

Transportation and Health: A Tour of the Future
By Ted Eytan
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 12:02 PM
In the world of “total health,” transportation and food are part of the health system. These industries combined make up a large chunk of the workforce and produce a large chunk of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. (The GHG numbers need to be interpreted with great care because there’s probably overlap between  ... Read more

Other Important Mobility Research

Mobility Lab recognizes that others around the world have produced excellent research about how to help decrease traffic but improve transportation options. Here is where you'll find some of the best of the research out there.

Why You Should Participate in Bike to Work Day
By Elizabeth A. Floyd
Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:15 AM
May is Bike Month throughout the U.S. and Canada, and in the D.C. region specifically, tomorrow is Bike to Work Day. It’s a big party day for area cyclists, even those who regularly commute by bike. Last year, more than 12,000 people registered at a number of pit stops throughout the region, where  ... Read more

Walking is the Pill That Could Start a Healthcare Revolution
By Jake Lynch
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:12 PM
The next big health care breakthrough - which could cut rates of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and Alzheimer's by at least 40 percent and save Americans $100 billion a year - comes from a place you'd least expect. On your block. At the park. Everywhere. So what's this amazing treatment,  ... Read more

Let’s Get Entrepreneurial to Help Older Adults Maintain their Mobility
By Stephanie K. Firestone
Monday, April 22, 2013 12:18 PM
Many of us with older parents are feeling an increased burden when our loved ones can no longer drive. Jurisdictions tasked with providing older adult transportation are figuring out how to address this demand as well. According to a study by the Maricopa Association of Governments’ Municipal Aging Services Project, public transit  ... Read more

Join Us for Free Lunch This Week on Mexico City Transportation
By Paul Mackie
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:54 AM
Please join us for lunch on Wednesday, April 17 to hear from representatives of EMBARQ/Mexico about their groundbreaking success in Mexico City. EMBARQ is the sustainable transportation initiative of the World Resources Institute. It collaborates with local transport authorities to reduce pollution, improve public health, and create safe, accessible, and attractive urban public spaces in Mexico,  ... Read more

Bikes Mean Business
By Chris Eatough
Thursday, April 4, 2013 4:14 PM
I recently attended the National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. It’s always an exciting and energizing event and I particularly enjoy meeting bike advocates and professionals from around the country and hearing about biking in their area. This year, what I kept hearing is the recognition that biking and walking  ... Read more

Categories that Overlap with Mobility Research

Research

Environment
San Fran walkers featured

San Francisco Crunches Numbers on Health Benefits of Biking and Walking

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:38 AM

Researchers from the Bay Area have quantified the public health benefits of increased biking and walking as a way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution for San Francisco and its surroundings. They found that increasing average daily walking and bicycling from 4 to 22 minutes: reduced the chances of cardiovascular disease and diabetes by 14 percent [...]

by Paul Mackie
Other Important Mobility Research
Bike policy featured

The State of Cycling Trends and Policies in the DC Region

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:43 PM

The Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center has published “Trends and Determinants of Cycling in the Washington D.C. Region,” written by myself and my co-authors Andrea Hamre, Dan Sonenklar, and Paul Goger. Mobility Lab is further publishing the key findings from this report, in two parts. This part highlights our key findings on cycling trends and policies in [...]

by Ralph Buehler
Activity Centers
Speck review featured

Jeff Speck Illuminates Many Dividends of a Walkable City

Friday, February 22, 2013 1:29 PM

Urban planners have long proselytized about the preferability of urban forms of development over suburban sprawl. But it wasn’t until fairly recently that the market caught up with their sermonizing. Urban planner Jeff Speck, who will be speaking at a Mobility Lab event on April 18, has written a new book called Walkable City: How Downtown Can [...]

by Paul Goddin
Community Design
Grandma Bus featured

Why Grandma Needs to Learn How to Ride the Bus

Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:54 PM

When Complete Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) were thriving during the last few decades, one of their most popular selling points was ease of transition. As the argument went, moving to a new community can be jarring for elderly people so folks should move to a CCRC in their 50s, allowing time to adjust to the [...]

by Stephanie K. Firestone
Community Design
Bike Helmet featured

Maryland Mandatory Bike-Helmet Law Would Make Streets Less Safe

Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:59 PM

[Editor's note: This article is republished at care2, where there is a slew of interesting conversation happening in the comments section about the mandatory bike helmet issue. Please check it out and weigh in with your voice.] The research tells us that mandatory bicycle-helmet laws are, perhaps counter-intuitively, a very bad idea when the hope [...]

by Paul Mackie
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Hubway featured

Boston and Minneapolis-Saint Paul Maps Show Bikeshare’s Transportation Impact

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:06 PM

After building the CaBi Trip Visualizer for the Capital Bikeshare system in Washington D.C. and Virginia, I looked for other cities I could do similar analyses with. I found two other systems that posted the open data that would allow me to create maps showing where their riders are coming and going. I got the [...]

by Michael Schade
Education
Ray LaHood featured

LaHood’s Vision of Livability Through Better Transportation Lives On

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:09 AM

When U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced he would not serve a second term, it was not a huge shock. I’d heard rumors last summer that he had only planned on serving one term. I think, however, that many were still disappointed when it became official because LaHood has been a huge proponent of all [...]

by Elizabeth A. Floyd
Community Design
R-B Corridor featured

Arlington Focuses on Moving People, Not Cars, in the Nation’s Worst Traffic Metro Area

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 3:10 PM

The Washington D.C. region’s traffic is the worst in the nation — even worse than Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York — according to a new report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute called the Urban Mobility Report. And in a news article about the findings by NBC Washington, one D.C. commuter says the reason is [...]

by Tom Fairchild
Economic Prosperity
Gas Tax 2 featured

Increasing Gas Tax Shows as Surprisingly Popular in New Traffic-Congestion Study

Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:58 PM

People are frustrated and think that governments are not doing enough to improve transportation, according to a new report by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Brookings Institution entitled “What Do People Think of Congestion Pricing?” The unexpected finding in the study is that support for raising gas taxes increased from 21 percent [...]

by Howard Jennings
Activity Centers
Affordable housing featured

Strategies Detailed to Remedy DC’s Affordable-Housing Crisis

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:09 AM

Lack of affordable housing is an unintended consequence of a region’s success, and can certainly be seen in the Washington D.C. metro area. As the public demand for walkable neighborhoods has increased, low- to moderate-income residents are being priced out of those neighborhoods. And unfortunately, the public policy regarding housing affordability in the United States [...]

by Paul Goddin

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