Capital Bikeshare

Mobility Lab & Partner Research
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New Capital Bikeshare Studies Generate Social-Media Buzz

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:33 PM

Capital Bikeshare Releases Two New Survey Reports: Surveys Provide Detailed Data on Bikeshare Usage and Regional Impact. Here are the original Tweets from this morning’s presentation and press conference.

by Emily Landsman
How To
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Insight into Capital Bikeshare – From the People Who Use It

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 patronage. As New York [...]

by Chris Eatough
Health
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Healthy Benefits are Another Reason to Invest in Capital Bikeshare

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 D.C. region in general. [...]

by Juliellen Sarver
Economic Prosperity
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Capital Bikeshare to Release Two New Reports at Mobility Lab

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 Survey Report,” nearly [...]

by Paul Mackie
Policy
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Data Palooza Helps USDOT Plan for Our Transportation Future

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:21 PM

Imagine the following scenario: Your daily commute in Washington D.C. requires taking metro’s green line to Gallery Place, then transferring onto a metrobus to your final destination. Unfortunately, the Washington Capitals hockey team is playing at Gallery Place’s Verizon Center. The game has just completed, and the street is teaming with Caps fans. Traffic is [...]

by Paul Goddin
Toolkit
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Ideas Aplenty Flow as a Result of Latest Hack Day

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:38 PM

Local technologists shared ideas and worked together at Mobility Lab’s recent Data Visualization Hack Day. It’s great to take an online community and bring folks together. One of the participants, Ted Eytan, has already shared his experience of how he learned about new available data sets – see Walking on Mondays Looks Like a Healthy, Smart Business [...]

by Michael Schade
Economic Prosperity
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Bikes Mean Business

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 are good for the local [...]

by Chris Eatough
Tourism/Travel
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Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate: Comparing Paris and D.C. Bikeshares

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:44 AM

Recently, my wife had to attend some meetings in Paris, so I cashed in my frequent flyer miles and joined her. Once there, I quickly realized that I faced a tough logistical challenge: How would a single American manage to reach such a large number of neighborhoods teaming with overwhelming quantities of quality wine, cheese, and [...]

by Stephan Sylvan
Economic Prosperity
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Airlines Reporting Corporation Builds Health and Commuting Options with Arlington’s Help

Monday, March 25, 2013 3:18 PM

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is one of hundreds of companies that Arlington Transportation Partners (ATP)  works with to improve the quality-of-life in this vibrant county located directly across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. Pinky Advani, ATP’s manager of business development in the neighborhood of Clarendon, where ARC is located, partnered with Tanya Nass, manager [...]

by Lois DeMeester
Transit Tech
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Maps in Motion: Telling Stories from Transit Data

Friday, March 22, 2013 2:18 PM

Mobility Lab’s Data Visualization Hack Day (tomorrow, Saturday, March 23) will bring together programmers with agency representatives and community stakeholders. Our goal is to share both the data we have about regional mobility systems and the tools we use to visualize them. There’s something about visual information that manages to engage people and fire the imagination. As [...]

by Michael Schade