more than just lines on a map: best practices for u.s bike routes
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More than Just Lines on a Map: Best Practices for U.S Bike Routes This session highlights best practices and lessons learned for U.S. Bike Route System designation, as well as how and why these routes should be integrated into bicycle planning at the local and regional level. Presenters: Presenter: Kevin Luecke Toole Design Group Co-Presenter: Virginia Sullivan Adventure Cycling AssociationTRANSCRIPT
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The U.S.
Bicycle Route
System
Best Practices &
Case Studies
September 2014
Kevin Luecke
Toole Design Group
Ginny Sullivan
Adventure Cycling
Association
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Overview
• Adventure Cycling
• USBRS Vision
• Evidence of Success
• Why it’$ Important
• AASHTO Process
• Why a study
• Survey Results
• Case Studies
• Best Practices
• What’s next
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Inspiring and empowering people to travel by
bicycle since 1976.
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Adventure Cycling: Who We Are
• “America’s Bicycle Travel Experts”
• Started as Bikecentennial in 1973
• Largest cycling membership group
in North America: 47,000+ globally
• 37 staff and many volunteers
• Outside Magazine ’08 & ‘12 Best
Place to Work
• Create some of the best bike route
maps, publications, special cycling
routes (41,180+ miles) in North
America
• Fantastic bike adventures and
education
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100 Tours • Self Contained
• Inn to Inn
• Van Supported
• Fully Supported
• Family Fun
• Educational
• Mountain Bike Tours
• Epic: TransAm, Northern Tier, Southern Tier & more
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42,000+ miles of routes
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** A Nation of Networks **
** Connected and convenient interstate
bike travel from city center to countryside **
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History of US Bicycle Routes In 1970’s interest in
long distance bicycle travel
picks up
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First US Bicycle routes
designated in 1982
*US Bicycle Route 1 (red)
*US Bicycle Route 76 (blue)
_______
No routes
designated
since
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Began Project late 2003
Staff Support 2005
** AASHTO Approval 2008 **
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The Vision
To encourage the development of a coordinated system of US bicycle routes across the country.
The Task Force is charged with developing a recommended national systems-level or corridor-level plan for use in designating potential future US bicycle routes.
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Inventory of existing
routes overlaid by the
proposed corridor system
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6,790 miles
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEHOj-Nc60Q
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Outdoor Industry Reports: More Americans bicycle
than golf, ski or play tennis combined.
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What is Bicycle Tourism?
Russ Roca
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Who are Bicycle Travelers?
DIY – Self
Contained
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Ride Centered
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Event Centered
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Urban Visitors
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Bike Travel Demographics
• Highly Educated
• Higher Discretionary Income
• Bike travelers spend more than average tourist
• Typically stay longer in an area
• Overnights to Multi-Day/Week/Month
• Less direct impact on local environment
• Green travel potential and linkage with trains/buses
• Sweet spot for 50-64 yr olds, which as of 2010 accounts for 43 percent of increase in consumer spending
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Shoe String: $25/day Economy: $25-75/day
Comfort: $75+/day
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Bike travel and tourism are
booming
Evidence?
• Economics
• Communities
• Route Networks and Facilities
• Pubic Relations Investment
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Europe!
= $57 billion
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Lanesboro, MN (just 800
people) $25 million
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Quebec!
• $160 million spent
• $134 million generated in
year one (2007)
• New study needed
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Wisconsin
$533 million from
out-of-staters for
cycling (out of $1.5
billion total for
cycling)
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Iowa: $364.8
million Or $1 mill/day!!
M Wyatt
Oregon: $400 million – • 35% overnighters • 78% revenue from
overnights
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Phase I = $668 million per year in
economic benefit to
Michigan's economy.
Phase II – next year
(includes events &
travel)
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Other Financials
Montana: $377 million from multi-day
touring cyclists
•Arizona: $88 million impact from Non-
resident spenders
• Minnesota: $427 million for recreational
road and mountain biking – sizable chunk
for tourism
• Great Allegheny Passage – $50+ million
gross revenue in 2012. Tracked $114/day
spending by overnight cyclists..
• CO – nearly $200 million for summer
biking in ski country
• NC – Nine-fold return on Investment: $6.7
million in infrastructure = $60 million in
economic impact
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Most routes will use existing roads and facilities.
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Implementation: Big Picture
Route applications submitted to AASHTO by State DOTs
– Neighboring states submit together OR connect to an existing USBR or foreign country
– Include maps and route descriptions
– Sign-off from DOTs
• Installation of signs & trailblazing
• Expansion of the system
– Spur, alternate & loop routes
– New routes & corridors
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Implementation: State by State
• State & local agencies determine best approach
– Route Identification
– Road Assessments
– Coordination with transportation divisions, counties, townships and MPOs
– Also aligning routes with neighboring states
• Who Does the Work?
- Volunteers, bicycle and/or trail advocates
- Agency staff
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Three Phases of Implementation
• Planning
• Designation
• Promotion
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USBR M1-9
MUTCD
USBR M1-9
Alternate
NCUTCD
2009
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• AASHTO & Task Force Liaison
• Corridor Plan Map
• Meeting Coordination
• Training & Mapping
• USBRS Blog & Social Media
• News & Updates
• Forums for discussion
• Tracking benefits
• Contacts & Stakeholders
• Future Map Clearinghouse
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• 40+ states working at some level
• Unique opportunities
• Unique challenges
• Various stakeholders
• Changing agency support
• Funding & capacity
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State Surveys
& Case Studies