The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) is on a multi-modal roll, releasing two guides to non-automobile forms of transportation in recent weeks. The most recent offers guidance on why, where, and how to site bikeshare.
Jen Kinney reports on a new report released by the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), titled the "Bike Share Siting Guide" [pdf].
The bikeshare guide comes hot on the heels of another publication by NACTO—the Transit Street Design Guide. According to Kinney, NACTO's bikeshare guide, "draws on examples from across North America to offer models for locating stations in the safest, most accessible ways possible."
So, for instance, "NACTO research shows that bike-share stations placed within a 3- to 5-minute walking distance of each other throughout a contiguous service area are essential to a system’s success," writes Kinney.
The article includes a lot more insight into the findings and recommendations of the new guide, including five core principles for siting bikeshare stations.
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