PlacesForBikes City Ratings Methodology. Overall City Rating

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1 1 PlacesFoBikes City Ratings Methodology Oveall City Rating The PlacesFoBikes City Rating Scoe is based on five factos: Rideship, Safety, Netwok, Acceleation, and Reach. Each facto is scoed on a one to five sta scale, based on infomation fom six data souces: U.S. Census Ameican Community Suvey (ACS) Fatality Analysis Repoting System (FARS) PlacesFoBikes Bike Netwok Analysis (BNA) PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey Spots Maketing Suveys Bicycle Paticipation Each facto (except Reach) has component that eflects the cuent state of bicycling and peceptions of bicycling. The two components ae combined with 80% of the weight on the cuent state of bicycling and 20% of the weight on peceptions of bicycling. Cities missing some of these data souces may be scoed lowe o may be not be scoed at all on a facto. While on-the-gound impovements ae the long tem stategy fo bette scoes, cities can impove thei atings quickly by poviding moe and bette data in thee key aeas: Complete and pomote the PlacesFoBikes Community suvey in you city Encouage city staff to complete the PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot Update the data fo you city in OpenSteetMap Rideship, Safety, Netwok, Acceleation, and Reach The five majo factos (Rideship, Safety, Netwok, Acceleation and Reach) ae each scoed on a five sta scale, and weighted equally (20% each) to povide the final scoe. The Rideship scoe eflects how many people in the community ide bikes. It is based on ACS bike-towok mode shae, Spots Maketing Suveys eceational bicycle paticipation, and the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey self-epoted ideship. Points ae assigned based on a weighted aveage of the scoes fom each data souce as follows: ACS bike-to-wok mode shae: 40% Spots Maketing Suveys eceational bike iding: 40% Self-epoted ideship fom the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey: 20% The Safety scoe eflects how safe it is to ide bikes in the community. It is based on FARS fatality ates fo all modes and bicycling, injuy ates fo all modes and bicycling fom the PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot, and peceptions of safety fom the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey. Fist, the all mode and

2 2 bicyclist injuy/fatality points ae calculated sepaately by taking an aveage of the fatality points based on the FARS and the injuy points based on the PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot. Points ae assigned based on a weighted aveage of the scoes fom each data souce as follows: All mode injuy/fatality ate: 40% Bicyclist injuy/fatality ate: 40% Peceptions of safety fom the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey: 20% The Netwok scoe eflects the quality of the bike netwok. It is based on the PeopleFoBikes Bike Netwok Analysis and peceptions of the netwok fom the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey. Points ae assigned based on a weighted aveage of the scoes fom each data souce as follows: Bicycle Netwok Analysis: 80% Peceptions of the netwok fom the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey: 20% The Acceleation scoe eflects the degee to which communities ae doing all the ight things to acceleate the gowth of bike iding in the next thee yeas. This scoe is based on data fom the PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot and the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey. Points ae assigned based on a weighted aveage of the scoes fom each data souce as follows: PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot: 80% PlacesFoBike Community Suvey: 20% The Reach scoe eflects how consistently the bike netwok seves all membes of the community. It is based on the BNA as well as ACS demogaphic and mode shae data. Using demogaphic data fom the ACS at the census block goup level, we identified communities demonstating common indicatos of inequality and disinvestment. To qualify, a census block goup had to meet at least two of the following thee citeia: The pecentage of the population unde 18 o ove 75 yeas old is 10%+ highe than the city aveage The pecentage of the non-white population is 10%+ highe than the city aveage The census block goup qualified as economically disadvantaged if it met at least two of the following citeia: o The pecentage of the labo foce that is unemployed is 10%+ highe than the city aveage o The pecentage of the population eceiving social secuity is 10%+ highe than the city aveage o The pecentage of the population eceiving public assistance is 3%+ highe than the city aveage o The gap between the city aveage median income and the median income of the census block goup is 15% o geate

3 3 Points ae assigned based on the gap between the aveage BNA scoes fo these communities and the city BNA aveage. Five points ae assigned if thee is no diffeence. Zeo to fou points ae assigned by beaking the emaining gap values into quintiles (fo example, fou points ae assigned if the gap is in the bottom 20% of gaps and zeo points ae assigned if the gap exceeds the top 80%). To ceate the quintile citeia, cities ae boken into categoies based on thei BNA scoes (22 o lowe, 23 to 31, and 31 o highe) and assigned points within those categoies so that cities with lage BNA scoes (and a potential fo lage gaps) aen t penalized elative to cities with smalle BNA scoes. We computed a gende gap scoe based on the diffeence between ACS bike-to-wok mode shae fo men minus women. Points ae assigned based on the magnitude of the gende gap with five points assigned if thee is no diffeence. Zeo to fou points ae assigned by beaking the emaining gende gap values into quintiles (fo example, fou points ae assigned if the gende gap is in the bottom 20% of gaps and zeo points ae assigned if the gende gap exceeds the top 80%). To ceate the quintile citeia, cities ae boken into categoies based on population size (200,000+, 100,000 to less than 200,000, and less than 100,000) and assigned points within those categoies so that small cities aen t compaed to lage cities. To ceate the final each scoes we aveaged the BNA gap points and the ACS gende gap points. Individual Data Souces Ameican Community Suvey (ACS): Bike-to-Wok Mode Shae The U.S. Census Bueau s Ameican Community Suvey (ACS) includes data fo a wide vaiety of demogaphic factos. This ating system uses a numbe of these factos in its vaious analyses including, but not limited to, total population, age, ethnicity and ace, economic status, and jouney-to-wok mode shae. Fo puposes of data analysis, this ating system uses 5-yea aveages. Use of these data souces fo simple compaative analysis is descibed above, but some factos, like Bike-to-Wok Mode Shae equie a moe in depth desciption. The U.S. Census Bueau s Ameican Community Suvey (ACS) includes data on the pimay mode of tanspotation to and fom wok among wokes ages 16 and ove. On an annual basis, they elease estimates of the numbe of wokes that tavel to and fom wok by ca/tuck/van, public tanspotation, motocycle, bicycle, walking, o othe means. They also estimate the numbe of wokes that wok fom home. Taditional analyses penalize cities that have high ates of public tansit, walking, and woking fom home because when those factos ae high, bike-to-wok mode shae is, by definition, lowe. At the city level, the additional challenge is that it is difficult fo cities with lage land aeas to achieve the bike-towok mode shae that is possible fo cities with small land aeas because juisdiction boundaies often abitaily include o cut-off low bicycle mode shae outlying aeas. Additionally, some juisdiction boundaies have been geogaphically fixed fo decades while othe communities ae actively annexing these low mode shae aeas. To addess these challenges, we adopted a novel appoach to estimating bicycle use based on a method designed by Nathan Wilkes at the City of Austin.

4 4 Fist, when computing bike-to-wok mode shae, we calculate the pecentage of wokes within a city that bike to wok excluding those that use public tansit, walk, o wok fom home. To maximize accuacy, we use five-yea estimates. Fo the ideship scoe we use city level bike-to-wok mode shae in the pocess outlined below. We also calculate mode shae fo men and women sepaately fo use in the Reach scoe as descibed above. The second step is to estimate a cuve that models the decement in the highest pefoming bike-towok mode shae (excluding public tansit, walk, o wok fom home) at specific slices of land aea acoss cities (in squae miles, 2, 4, 8, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 100, 150, 200, 300). Fom this cuve, we estimate a benchmak mode shae at each slice of land aea. Below is the esulting benchmak cuve. Bike-to-Wok Mode Shae 80% 60% 40% 20% Benchmak Cuve vs Tend Powe Cuve 0% y = 0.891x R² = Land Aea Fo each city, we calculate the nomalized bike-to-wok scoe based the benchmak bike-to-wok mode shae fo the land aea of each city. Points ae assigned to the nomalized bike-to-wok mode shae estimates as follows: Lowe than 20 = 1 point 20 to less than 40 = 2 points 40 to less than 60 = 3 points 60 to less than 80 = 4 points 80 o highe = 5 points

5 5 Fatality Analysis Repoting System (FARS) Each yea the National Highway Taffic Safety Administation eleases the numbe of fatalities in moto vehicles taffic cashes acoss the United States. We calculate the aveage numbe of annual fatalities acoss the most ecent five-yea peiod fo all modes and fo bicyclists sepaately. Using the aveage numbe of annual fatalities acoss all modes, we calculate a fatality ate pe 10,000 people in the city and assign points as follows: Fatality ate = 0, five points Fatality ate > 0 and <=.6, fou points Fatality ate >.6 and <= 1.16, thee points Fatality ate > 1.16 and <= 2.53, two points Fatality ate > 2.53 and <=8.63, one point Fatality ate > 8.63, zeo points Similaly, using the aveage numbe of annual bike fatalities, we calculate the bike fatality ate pe 10,000 bike commutes (based on bike-to-wok estimates fom the Ameican Community Suvey 1 ). We assign points as follows: Bike fatality ate = 0, five points Bike fatality ate > 0 and <= 8.52, fou points Bike fatality ate > 8.52 and <= 16.6, thee points Bike fatality ate > 16.6 and <= 32.5, two points Bike fatality ate > 32.5 and <= , one point Bike fatality ate > , zeo points Bike fatality points ae only assigned fo cities that have bike-to-wok estimates geate than zeo. PlacesFoBikes City Snapshot In the sping of 2017, PeopleFoBikes fielded the fist City Snapshot Suvey. The City Snapshot was distibuted to city staff in positions to answe about the bike pojects built, in pogess, and planned in the futue (see Appendix B). Q1 (centeline miles) In Q1, city staff epoted the numbe of centeline miles of the following that wee complete in 2015, complete in 2016, and being built by the end of 2017: potected bike lanes, buffeed bike lanes, maked bike boulevads, steets with taffic calming featues, off-steet paved tails o paths, and off-steet natual suface tails o paths (note conventional bike lanes and shaed lane making wee not included in these calculations). Within each time peiod, a weighted sum is calculated: 1 Bike-to-wok mode shae was calculated based on the numbe of wokes that bike divided by the numbe of wokes excluding those who walk, take public tansit, o wok fom home.

6 6 18%: Potected bike lanes 10%: Buffeed bike lanes 18%: Maked bike boulevads 18%: Steets with taffic calming featues and speed limits of 20 MPH o less 18%: Off-steet paved tails o paths within city/town limits 18%: Off-steet natual suface tails o paths within city/town limits The aveage pecent change fom 2015 to 2016 and fom 2016 to 2017 is calculated and points ae assigned as follows: 0 incease o decease = 0 points 1-9% incease = 1 point 10-14% incease = 2 points 15-19% incease = 3 points 20%-24% incease = 4 points 25%+ incease = 5 points Q3 measued the numbe of bikes in the bike shae fleet at the end of 2015, at the end of 2016, planned by the end of 2017, and planned by the end of The aveage pecent change fom 2015 to 2016, fom 2016 to 2017, and fom 2017 to 2019 is calculated. Points ae assigned as follows: 0 incease o decease = 0 points 1-9% incease = 1 point 10-25% incease = 2 points 25-50% incease = 3 points 50-75% incease = 4 points 75%+ incease = 5 points Q3 measued the numbe of bike paking spaces at the end of 2015, at the end of 2016, planned by the end of 2017, and planned by the end of The aveage pecent change fom 2015 to 2016, fom 2016 to 2017, and fom 2017 to 2019 is calculated. Points ae assigned as follows: 0 incease o decease = 0 points 1-9% incease = 1 point 10-25% incease = 2 points 25-50% incease = 3 points 50-75% incease = 4 points 75%+ incease = 5 points Q4 measued the numbe of bike shae ides in 2015 and The pecentage gowth is calculated and points ae assigned as follows: 0 incease = 0 points 1-10% incease = 1 point

7 % incease = 2 points 25-50% incease = 3 points % incease = 4 points 100%+ incease = 5 points Q6 measued the numbe of people who paticipated in the following events in 2015 and 2016: Bike-towok day (o simila pogam), open steets events, kid s education pogams in schools, kids biking clubs o oganizations (outside school). Q7 measued the numbe of people who paticipated in the thee lagest bike events in 2015 and The numbe of paticipants in all of these bike events is summed fo 2015 and The pecent gowth fom 2015 to 2016 is calculated and points ae assigned as follows: 0 incease = 0 points 1-25% incease = 1 point 25-49% incease = 2 points 50-74% incease = 3 points 75-99% incease = 4 points 100%+ incease = 5 points The points assigned to Q1, Q3, Q4, Q6, and Q7 ae summed to calculate an oveall scoe using the following weights: 60%: Q1 10%: Q3 Bike shae bikes 5%: Q3 paking 10%: Q4 bike shae ides 15%: Q6Q7 # people Half a bonus point is added fo cities that have bike paks/pump tacks planned in 2017, 2018, o 2019 and a half a bonus point is added fo cities that have gade sepaated cossings planned in 2017, 2018, o The City Snapshot Suvey also collected data on the numbe of Type A (incapacitating) injuies acoss modes and fo bikes specifically in 2014 and We compute the aveage numbe of injuies acoss the two time peiods fo all modes and bike ides. Using the aveage numbe of annual injuies acoss all modes, we calculate the injuy ate pe 10,000 people in the city and assign points as follows: Injuy ate = 0, five points Injuy ate > 0 and <=.6, fou points Injuy ate >.6 and <= 1.75, thee points Injuy ate > 1.75 and <= 3.88, two points Injuy ate > 3.88 and <=7.00, one point Injuy ate > 7.00, zeo points

8 8 Using the aveage numbe of annual injuies fo bike ides, we calculate the injuy ate pe 10,000 commutes (based on bike-to-wok estimates fom the Ameican Community Suvey) in the city and assign points as follows: Bike injuy ate = 0, five points Bike injuy ate > 0 and <= 22.75, fou points Bike injuy ate > and <= 45.5, thee points Bike injuy ate > 45.5 and <= 80.00, two points Bike injuy ate > and <=110.00, one point Bike injuy ate > , zeo points PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey In the sping of 2017, PeopleFoBikes fielded the fist PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey designed to measue peceptions of bike iding in cities among bike enthusiasts (see Appendix A). We used a snowball sampling appoach and netted a total sample size of 28,843. The 59 cities that met the following sample size citeia eceived scoes based on the PlacesFoBikes Community Suvey: Population size 200K o moe: a minimum of 100 completed suveys Population size of 100K to less than 200K: a minimum of 75 completed suveys Population size of less than 100K: a minimum of 50 completed suveys Among cities with a sufficient sample, we calculate a scoe fo safety, netwok, acceleation, and ideship as follows. Safety Scoe (ange zeo to five) The safety scoe is based on atings fom Q6a of the Community Suvey in which espondents indicated thei ageement with a seies of safety-elated attitudinal items on 5-point scales anchoed by 1 (stongly disagee) and 5 (stongly agee). Points ae assigned such that if all items ae ated a one, zeo points ae assigned. If all items ae ated a five, five points ae assigned. Othewise, the numbe of points eflects an aveage of atings acoss the items with a maximum of fou points. Netwok Scoe (ange zeo to five) The netwok scoe is based on atings fom Q6b and Q8 of the Community Suvey. Fo Q6b, espondents indicated thei ageement with a seies of netwok-elated attitudinal items on 5-point scales anchoed by 1 (stongly disagee) and 5 (stongly agee). Points ae assigned such that if all items ae ated a one, zeo points ae assigned. If all items ae ated a five, five points ae assigned. Othewise, the numbe of points eflects an aveage of atings acoss the items with a maximum of fou points. Fo Q8, espondents indicated (using a multi-select fomat) whethe thei city/town has access to bike paks/pump tacks, ail-tails, o off-steet tails/paths that don t allow moto vehicles. The numbe of types of facilities is calculated so the numbe of points anges fom zeo to fou.

9 9 The points fom Q6b ae summed with the points fom Q8. Final scoes ae computed as follows: Sum = 0, 0 points Sum = 1,2, 1 point Sum = 3,4, 2 points Sum = 5,6, 3 points Sum = 7,8, 4 points Sum = 9, 5 points Acceleation Scoe (ange zeo to five) The acceleation scoe is based on atings fom Q6c, Q9, and Q7 of the Community Suvey. Fo Q6c and Q9, espondents indicated thei ageement with a seies of acceleation-elated attitudinal items on 5- point scales anchoed by 1 (stongly disagee) and 5 (stongly agee). Points ae assigned such that if all items ae ated a one, zeo points ae assigned. If all items ae ated a five, five points ae assigned. Othewise, the numbe of points eflects an aveage of atings acoss the items with a maximum of fou points. Scoes fo Q6c and Q9 ae calculated sepaately. Fo Q7, espondents indicated (using a multi-select fomat) which events take place in thei city/town including bike-to-wok days, open steet events, kid s education in public schools, and kid s bike clubs o oganizations. The numbe events is calculated so the numbe of points anges fom zeo to fou. The points fom Q6c, Q9, and Q7 ae summed. Final scoes ae computed as follows: Sum = 0, 0 points Sum = 1,2, 1 point Sum = 3,4, 2 points Sum = 5,6, 3 points Sum = 7,8, 4 points Sum = 9, 5 points Rideship Scoe (ange zeo to five) The ideship scoe is based on Q11a, Q11b, and Q10 of the Community Suvey. In Q10, espondents indicate how fequently they ide bikes outside fom 1 (neve) to 5 (daily). In Q11a, espondents who indicate (in a multi-select fomat) that they ide fo tanspotation indicate the types of tanspotation they engage in including to and fom wok/school, to and fom public tanspotation, escoting childen to and fom school, unning eands o shopping, taveling to and fom social, eceational, o leisue activities, and othe types of tanspotation iding. The numbe of types of tanspotation iding ae summed and scoes ange fom zeo to 5 with five points assigned if the numbe of types of tanspotation tips is five o highe. In Q11b, espondents who indicated that they ide fo easons othe than tanspotation indicated how fequently they ode bikes on the following: Paved oad whee moto vehicles ae allowed, unpaved

10 10 oad whee moto vehicles ae allowed, paved paths whee moto vehicles ae not allowed, unpaved paths whee moto vehicles ae not allowed, singletack mountain bike tails, bike paks and/o pump tacks. Ratings wee made on five-point scales anchoed by 1 (neve) and 5 (daily). To ensue that oad iding, mountain bike iding and casual iding ae equally valued, thee scoes ae ceated based on Q11b. Fo the oad scoe, zeo points ae assigned if the espondent doesn t paticipate in eceational iding. Othewise, the numbe of points is set to the scale selection fo the item on paved oads whee moto vehicles ae allowed. Fo the casual bike scoe, zeo is assigned if the espondent doesn t paticipate in eceational iding. Othewise the numbe of points is set to the ounded aveage of the scale selections acoss the following items: unpaved whee moto ae allowed, paved whee moto vehicles ae not allowed, unpaved whee moto vehicles ae not allowed. Fo the mountain bike scoe, zeo points ae assigned if the espondent doesn t paticipate in eceational iding. Othewise, the numbe of points is set to the ounded aveage of the scale selections fo the following items singletack mountain bike tails and bike paks/pump tacks. Finally, a iding scoe is calculated that sums tanspotation points, eceation points, and Q10. The final iding scoe is assigned as follows: Sum is 1,2 = 0 points Sum is 3,4,5 = 1 point Sum is 6,7,8 = 2 points Sum is 9,10,11 = 3 points Sum is 12,13,14 = 4 points Sum is 15 = 5 points PlacesFoBikes Bike Netwok Analysis (BNA) The Bike Netwok Analysis was developed in patneship with Toole Design Goup to measue how well people can get to the places they want to go on a comfotable, connected bike netwok. The goal is to lowe the baie to basic netwok analysis and encouage cities of all sizes to build connected, comfotable bike netwoks. The BNA uses a modified Level of Taffic Stess appoach, intended to coespond with the comfot level of a typical adult with an inteest in iding a bike but who is concened about inteactions with vehicula taffic. It evaluates oad segments and intesections fo stess level and calculates how well people can each key destinations on an entiely low-stess bike oute. Key destinations include tansit, etail, eceation (e.g., paks, bike tails), oppotunity (e.g., jobs, schools), and coe sevices (e.g., health cae, gocey stoes). It elies on data fom two souces: The U.S. Census and OpenSteetMap. Fo moe infomation about the Bike Netwok Analysis, click hee. Scoes fo the BNA ange fom zeo to 100 whee 100 epesents pefect connectivity (like the oad netwok). Points ae assigned as follows: Lowe than 20 = 1 point 20 to less than 40 = 2 points

11 11 40 to less than 60 = 3 points 60 to less than 80 = 4 points 80 o highe = 5 points Spots Maketing Suveys Bicycle Paticipation Spots Maketing Suveys conducts a suvey of spots paticipation fo the Physical Activity Council. They tack paticipation in 119 spots, fitness, and leisue activities including bicycling on a paved oad, mountain biking, and BMX. Data ae collected fom appoximately 40,000 individuals and households annually though an online suvey of a epesentative sample of Ameicans ages six and olde. Respondents epot the numbe of days they paticipate in each activity to poduce estimates of the pecentage of Ameicans ages six and olde that ide bikes. Spots Maketing Suveys uses a popietay modelling technique to leveage egional pofiles to poject ideship at the city level. To compute ideship points, paticipation ates ae nomalized against a taget goal of 45% ideship. Points ae assigned as follows: Lowe than 20 = 1 point 20 to less than 40 = 2 points 40 to less than 60 = 3 points 60 to less than 80 = 4 points 80 o highe = 5 points Click hee fo moe infomation about the Spots Maketing Suveys paticipation study.

12 12 Appendix A: Community Suvey Document Q1. Would you like to povide you thoughts about bicycling in you city/town as a Select one. [Randomize ows except none of the above] Resident Bike business (owne o employee) Bike etaile (owne o employee) City/town employee Elected official o city leade Community leade Advocate involved in bicycling Othe (please specify) [If bike business, bike etaile, city/town employee, elected official] Fo the emaining questions please answe about the city/town whee you wok. Note that you can complete this suvey again as a city/town esident. [If esident o othe is selected] Fo the emaining questions please answe about the city/town whee you live. [If community leade advocate] Fo the emaining questions please answe about the city/town whee you ae most involved as a community leade o advocate. Note that you can complete this suvey again as a city/town esident. Q2. What is the name of you city/town? Q3. In which state is you city/town located? Q4. What is the 5-digit zip code of you city/town? Shop. What is the name of you company o shop? [Show if bike business o etaile] Oganization. What is the name of you oganization? [Show if advocate o community leade]

13 13 Position. What is you position? [Show if advocate, community leade, bike business, etaile, city/town employee, elected official] Age. Please list you age. Ente a numbe between 1 and 100. [Range: 1-100; teminate if 17 o younge] Q5. Oveall, how is bicycling in you city/town? Select one. 1 Extemely poo 2 Somewhat poo 3 - Aveage 4 Somewhat good 5 Extemely good I don t know Q6a. Select one in each ow. [Randomize ows] I woy about being hit by a moto vehicle when bicycling I woy about my pesonal safety when bicycling (e.g., haassment, assault, etc.) Bicycling is safe fo all people in this city/town (including kids, senios, etc.) Thee ae aely conflicts between bicyclists and motoists 1 Stongly disagee 2 Disagee 3 Neithe agee no disagee 4 Agee 5 Stongly agee

14 14 Thee ae aely conflicts between bicyclists and pedestians Q6b. Please indicate how much you agee with the following statements about you city/town. Select one in each ow. [Randomize ows] It is possible to get to places quickly and conveniently by bicycle It is easy to combine bicycling and public tansit I am familia with the bike lanes, paths, and tails Thee ae convenient and secue places to pak bikes 1 Stongly disagee 2 Disagee 3 Neithe agee no disagee 4 Agee 5 Stongly agee Q6c. Please indicate how much you agee with the following statements about you city/town. Select one in each ow. [Randomize ows] The media in the city/town is positive about bicycling The city/town leadeship suppots bicycling Within the last 12 months, it feels like the city has built moe bike lanes, paths, and/o tails I have head that the city/town has plans to build moe bike lanes, paths, and/o tails in the futue 1 Stongly disagee 2 Disagee 3 Neithe agee no disagee 4 Agee 5 Stongly agee

15 15 Q7. Which of the following bike events take place in you city/town? Select all that apply. [Randomize ows except none of the above] Bike-to-wok days Open steets events Kids education in public schools Kids bike clubs o oganizations None of the above I don t know Q8. Which of the following ae accessible in o nea you city/town? Select all that apply. [Randomize ows except none of the above] Bike pak/pump tack Mountain bike tails Rail-tails Off-steet tails/paths that don t allow moto vehicles None of the above Q9. Compaed to thee yeas ago, how much do you agee with the following statements about you city/town? Select one in each ow. [Randomize ows] 1 Stongly disagee 2 Disagee 3 Neithe agee no disagee 4 Agee 5 Stongly agee It is safe to bicycle Thee ae moe lanes, paths, and tails fo bicycling City/town leadeship is moe suppotive of bicycling Bike iding is getting bette

16 16 Q10. How often do you ide a bike outside? Select one. (almost) neve aely monthly weekly (almost) daily Q11. Fo which of the following do you use you bicycle (outside)? Select all that apply. To get fom one place to anothe (tanspotation) Fo easons othe than tanspotation (e.g., fun, execise, etc.) Neithe Q11a. You indicated that you use you bike to get fom one place to anothe. Which of the following types of tanspotation iding do you do? Select all that apply. [Show if Q11 is to get fom one place to anothe ; andomize ows except othe] Taveling to and fom wok o school Taveling to and fom public tanspotation Escoting childen to and fom school o daycae Running eands o shopping (pesonal business) Taveling to and fom social, eceation, o leisue activities (e.g., eating out, etc.) Othe type of tanspotation bicycling (please specify) Q11b. You indicated that you ide fo easons othe than tanspotation (e.g., fun, execise, etc.). Fo you non-tanspotation iding, how often do you ide in each of the following types of places? Select one in each ow. [Show if Q11 is fo easons othe than tanspotation ] 1 (almost) Neve 2 Raely 3 Monthly 4 Weekly 5 (almost) Daily

17 17 Paved oad whee moto vehicles ae allowed Unpaved oad whee moto vehicles ae allowed Paved paths whee moto vehicles ae not allowed Unpaved paths whee moto vehicles ae not allowed Single-tack mountain bike tails Bike paks and/o pump tacks Now we would like to know moe about the geat places to ide in you city/town. If a question isn t applicable to you city/town o you don t want to answe, just leave the box blank. You may ente the same answe fo multiple questions. Q12a. Whee is the best place to mountain bike in you city/town? Q12b. Whee is the best oad ide? List the pimay oads and name of ide if it has one. Q12c. Whee is the best place to take kids iding in you city/town? Q12d. Whee is the best place to take visitos o touists to ide? Q12e. If thee is a bike pak in you city/town, ente the name hee. Q12f. If you city/town has a cental bike path, tail, lane, o coido, please ente the name hee. Q12g. What is the best bike-elated event in you city/town? Q13. Which of the following bike bands do you sell? Select all that apply. [Show if etaile in Q4] Bianchi Cannondale Cevelo Diamondback Felt Fuji Giant GT Bicycles Huffy Jamis Raleigh

18 18 Rocky Mountain Santa Cuz Scott Specialized Tek Yeti Othe (please specify) None of the above Q14. Anything else you would like to shae with us? [Do not equie] Gende. I identify as Select one. Male Female Othe Pefe not to answe Ethnic. Which of the following best descibes you ethnic backgound? Select all that apply. White Black o Afican Ameican Hispanic o Latino Asian, Asian Ameican, o Pacific Islande Ameican Indian o Alaska Native Multiacial Othe Pefe not to answe Income. Which of the following best descibes you total annual household income befoe taxes? Select one. Less than $20,000 $20,000 to less than $40,000

19 $40,000 to less than $60,000 $60,000 to less than $100,000 $100,000 to less than $150,000 $150,000 to less than $200,000 $200,000 to less than $250,000 $250,000 o moe Pefe not to answe 19

20 20 Appendix B: City Snapshot Suvey Document ++Q1. Fo the fist set of questions, please ente the numbe of centeline miles fo each type of bike facility in you city/town duing the specified time fames. Hove you mouse ove the? fo definitions of each type of bike facility o click hee fo a full list of definitions: <<link to the PDF>> Note that these categoies should sum to the total numbe of centeline miles fo all bike facilities in the netwok epoted in this fom (categoies ae mutually exclusive). Please include all pojects by all agencies including univesities, state agencies, business disticts, and pivate developes. *Thee is no evidence that these type of makings impove safety o incease ideship. Ente a numbe between 0 and in each cell. NOTE: Often times, egional MPO s o Pak Depatment maintain databases of bike netwoks. Conside eaching out to an oganization like this in you egion if you e unsue how best to espond Potected bike lanes Buffeed bike lanes Conventional bike lanes Maked bike boulevads Steets with taffic calming featues and speed limits of 20 MPH o less (not including anything listed above) Off-steet paved tails o paths within city/town limits Off-steet natual suface tails o paths within city/town limits Shaed lane makings (not including anything listed above)* Total completed by the end of 2015 Total completed in 2016 Total planned fo completion in 2017 Total planned fo completion in (officially adopted)

21 21 Q2. Please ente the numbe of centeline miles fo each type of bike facility in you city/town duing the specified time fames. Hove you mouse ove the? fo definitions of each type of bike facility o click hee fo a full list of definitions: <<link to the PDF>> Ente a numbe between 0 and in each cell. NOTE: Often times, egional MPO s o Pak Depatment maintain databases of bike netwoks. Conside eaching out to an oganization like this in you egion if you e unsue how best to espond Off-steet paved tails o paths up to five miles outside city/town limits Off-steet natual suface tails o paths up to five miles outside city/town limits Total completed by the end of 2015 Total completed in 2016 Total planned fo completion in 2017 Total planned fo completion in (officially adopted) ++Q3. Fo the next set of questions, please ente the numbe of each duing the following time fames. If you city/town doesn t have any of the following, ente 0. Ente a numbe between 0 and in each cell. Numbe of bikes in you bike shae fleet (ente 0 if you don t have a bike shae) Numbe of bike paking spaces publicly available fo use Total at the end of 2015 Total completed in 2016 Total planned fo completion in 2017 Total planned fo completion in (officially adopted)

22 22 Bike paks (have mountain bike tails, dit jumps, a pump tack, dual slalom, flow/gavity mountain bike tails, and/o slopestyle/feeide tails) Pump tacks Gade sepaated cossings of multi-use paths (e.g. ovepasses/undepasses) Q4. How many bike shae ides wee taken on you bike shae system in the following yeas? NOTE: Conside eaching out to the bike shae opeato in you city/town if you e unsue how best to espond Ente a numbe between 0 and 9999 in each cell Q5. How many bikes wee distibuted (sold o given away) though community bike shops in each of the following time fames? Ente a 0 if thee ae no community bike shops in you city/town. Ente a numbe between 0 and 9999 in each cell. NOTE: To see if thee is a community bike shop in you aea, please visit o speak with local bike advocates Q6. How many people paticipated in each type of bike event/pogam in you city/town duing the specified time fames? Please povide you best estimate. We ae looking fo peson-bike days so 50 people iding 3 times each is 150.

23 23 Ente a numbe between 0 and in each cell. NOTE: These events do not always have official city paticipation. Speak to local bike advocates about the best points of contact fo these events in you community. Bike-to-wok day (o simila pogam) Open steets events Kid s education pogams in schools Kids biking clubs o oganizations (outside school) # of people in 2015 # of people in 2016 Q7. We ae inteested in the 3 lagest bike events within you city/town duing the specified time fames. In the spaces below, please povide the name of the event and the numbe of people that ode bikes duing the event. We ae looking fo peson-bike days so 50 people iding 3 times each is 150. NOTE: These events do not always have official city paticipation. Speak to local bike advocates about the best points of contact fo these events in you community. Name of event # of paticipants Q8. What was you biggest bicycle-elated success in 2016? Q9. What is the most tansfomative bike-elated poject on the hoizon? ++Q10. Please ente the numbe of fatalities in you city/town. In many cases, these numbes can be obtained fom you state. Ente a numbe between 0 and 9999 in each cell

24 24 All mode fatalities Bicycle fatalities Q11. Please ente the numbe of injuies in you city/town. In many cases, these numbes can be obtained fom you state. If these numbes aen t available to you, leave the spaces blank. Ente a numbe between 0 and 9999 in each cell. All mode injuies type A (incapacitating) Bicycle Injuies type A (incapacitating) All mode injuies all types Bicycle Injuies all types Q12. What is the population of you city/town in fo each of the following time peiods? To find the population of you city/town, go to and consult this PDF fo detailed instuctions: <<link to the PDF>> Ente a numbe between 0 and in each cell. NOTE: Fo detailed instuctions on how to get the population fo you city/town, see Appendix B at the end of this document Q13. What is you Ameican Community Suvey bike-to-wok mode shae fo each of the following time peiods? Please use 5-yea estimates. To find the bike-to-wok mode shae of you city/town, go to and consult this PDF fo detailed instuctions: <<link to the PDF>> Ente a numbe between 0% and 100% in each cell (don t ente the pecent sign). NOTE: Fo detailed instuctions on how to get the bike-to-wok mode shae fo you city/town, see Appendix B at the end of this document 2014

25 Q14. Anything else you would like to shae with us about bicycling in you city/town? ++Shapefile. Please upload a zip file containing the shape files that define you city boundaies. Include the name of you city in the title of the zip file. Q15. If you would like us to include anyone else at you city/town on updates, please povide names and addesses in the spaces below. Definitions fo Q1/Q2 Potected bike lanes: Also known as cycle tacks o sepaated bike lanes, ae sepaated bicycle facilities that un alongside a oadway sepaated fom automobile taffic by a physical baie, such as paked cas, bollads, a landscaped buffe, o a cub. A sepaated bike lane is fo bicycle use only and is distinct fom a sidewalk o off-steet tails. Buffeed bike lanes: Ae designated by a white stipe, a bicycle symbol, and signage that alets all oad uses that a potion of the oadway is fo exclusive use by bicyclists. The pesence of a stiped, hoizontal buffe (geate than o equal to 18 inches) povides additional opeating space and lateal sepaation fom moving and paked vehicles.

26 26 Conventional bike lanes: Ae designated by a white stipe, a bicycle symbol, and signage that alets all oad uses that a potion of the oadway is fo exclusive use by bicyclists. Maked bike boulevads: Also known as neighbohood geenways ae steets with low motoized taffic volumes and speeds that have been designated and modified to function as a though steet fo bicyclists using signs, pavement makings, and taffic calming measues to discouage though tavel fo moto vehicles.

27 27 Steets with taffic calming featues and speed limits of 20 mph o less: Steets with speed limits of 20 mph o less that use physical and visual cues to encouage motoists to dive moe slowly. The design of these steets is self-enfocing; the design of the oadway esults in slowe motoist speeds and comfotable bicycle iding without elying on compliance with taffic contol devices such as signals and signs. Off-steet paved tails o paths within city/town limits: Physically sepaated facilities that can be used by both pedestians and bicyclists. These paved paths povide off-oad connections that can be used fo eceation and commuting and ae often found along wateways, abandoned o active aiload and utility ights-of-way, limited access highways, o within paks and open space aeas.

28 28 Off-steet natual suface tails o paths within city/town limits: Physically sepaated facilities that can be used by both pedestians and bicyclists. These natual suface paths povide offoad connections that ae most commonly used fo eceation including mountain bike tails. These paths ae often found along wateways, abandoned o active aiload and utility ightsof-way, limited access highways, o within paks and open space aeas. Off-steet paved tails o paths up to five miles outside city/town limits: Physically sepaated facilities that can be used by both pedestians and bicyclists. These paved paths povide offoad connections that can be used fo eceation and commuting and ae often found along wateways, abandoned o active aiload and utility ights-of-way, limited access highways, o within paks and open space aeas.

29 29 Off-steet natual suface tails o paths up to five miles outside city/town limits: Physically sepaated facilities that can be used by both pedestians and bicyclists. These natual suface paths povide off-oad connections that ae most commonly used fo eceation including mountain bike tails. These paths ae often found along wateways, abandoned o active aiload and utility ights-of-way, limited access highways, o within paks and open space aeas. Shaed lane makings: Shaow pavement makings used in oad segments with no sepaation between ca and bicycle space. Thee is no evidence that these type of makings impove safety o incease ideship. When used alone without othe bikeway teatments they do not contibute to a low stess bicycle netwok.

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