Bike Share Masterclass: Essential learning and best practice for local authorities

Public bike share is booming: 25 UK cities and towns now offer a bike share scheme – double the number only two years ago – and new projects are opening weekly. There are now more than 25,000 bikes available for hire across the country as part of dockless, docked and e-bike schemes. Local authorities are spoilt for choice, and this essential masterclass will enable them to understand the scope, opportunities and challenges behind each offer.

Do you have a question to put to the bike share operators?  

The final plenary session is about getting your queries answered. Send your questions to juliana.orourke@landor.co.uk 

As business models, technology and funding options mature, it's becoming clear that there is no 'one-size fits all' solution. The promise of affordable, rapidly deliverable schemes holds great appeal, but local authorities need to consider scheme operation, management, safety, liability and accessibility in order to lock-in bike share benefits for public good.

This event will clarify how local authority objectives can be achieved. Bike share is booming: do we need a national standard... read more here

Meet the full range of bike share operators and local authority pioneers, and understand the lastest key developments in a professional and friendly context:

• Latest developments in bike share
• Regulation, conduct and accreditation?
• Procurement options, tools and guidance
• Street / kerbside management and cycle parking
• Accessibility for all
• Business models, operational guidance, optimisation and evaluation
• Next steps: cargo bike share, private sector benefits and wider integration

Programme

09.30 – 10.00 Registration

10.00: Latest developments & the wider context for bike share

Facilitator: Roger Geffen, Cycling UK

10.10 Welcome from Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy Leader, Leicester City Council

10.10 – 11.00

• Matthew Clark, Steer Davis Gleave (10 mins)
• Antonia Roberts, Bikeplus (10 mins)
• Rupert Furness, Head of Active and Accessible Travel, Department for Transport (10 mins)
• Panel Q+A

11.00 – 13.00: Do we need national standards?

(5 min presentations followed by panel Q+A, with a comfort break at 12.00)

Part A: 11.00 – 12.00 Regulation & conduct 

Licensing, accreditation, operational guidance, byelaws, SLAs

• Antonia Roberts: Bikeplus
• Mike Beevor, Transport for London
• Katharine Soane, Transport for Edinburgh
• Rupert Furness, Department for Transport

12.00 – 12.30 Tea & coffee with advice surgeries

Part B: 12.30 – 13.30 Procurement options, scheme design and optimisation

Issues: Different routes to operator selection (tender, RFP, permits), single, dual or multiple operators, should limits be set on operator numbers, how do we calculate optimum bike numbers, assessment criteria, how do we measure success?

• Adam Sendall, Derby City Council
• George Economides, Oxfordshire County Council
• Ian Stott, Integrated Transport Planning
• tbc

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch with advice surgeries and cycle rides

14.30 – 15.30  Management of public space

Facilitator: Chris Slade, bikeplus

5 min presentations followed by panel Q+A

Issues: Rebalancing, geo-fencing hubs, reallocation of street space & addressing vandalism, social equity, physical accessibility, e-bikes, community engagement

• Andrew Skilton, London Borough of Waltham Forest
• David Shannon, London Borough of Islington
• Emma Beech, Transport for West Midlands
• Joseph Seal Driver, director, ofo

15.30 – 16.15   Operator question panel – business models

Facilitator: Mark Strong, Transport Initiatives

Issues: Business models, integration, data use, transparency over revenue streams, adding value for LAs

Do you have a question to put to  the bike share operators?   The final plenary session is about getting your queries answered: send your questions to juliana.orourke@landor.co.uk 

• Joseph Seal-Driver, ofo
• Steve Pyer, Mobike
• Tom McGovern, Urbo
• Julian Scrivens, nextbike
• Tim Caswell, Hourbike

16.15 Close

Speakers include:

Antonia Roberts, Director, Bikeplus

Rupert Furness, Head of Active and Accessible Travel, DfT 

Michael Beevor, Transport Innovation Directorate, TfL

Roger Geffen, Cycling UK

Matthew Clark, Steer Davis Gleave

Mark Strong, Transport Initiatives

Speakers from pioneering Local Authorities and from key bike share operators will also be sharing knowlegde and insights:

• Newcastle
• Norwich
• Oxfordshire
• Waltham Forest
• TfWM
• TfL
• Sheffield
• Lincoln
• TfGM
• Cambridge 
• Brighton
• Bristol
• TfE
• ofo
• next bike
• Hourbike
• mobike
• Serco
• oBike
• urbo
• Co-bikes