Surveys And Sources
The community survey used for the 2018 Benchmarking Report is based on the application for a Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award. The BFC program was created in 1995 and significantly updated to its “5 E” (Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Evaluation & Planning) format in 2002. It has been updated periodically since then in order…
The Benchmarking Project uses a variety of data sources to provide information on bicycling and walking in the United States. This page is intended to provide an overview of those data sources. Federal Data Sources A longstanding objective of the Benchmarking Project has been to promote data collection and availability and one way that we…
In recent years bikeshare has been a very dynamic industry. To ensure that the Benchmarking Report could continue to provide useful information on communities with bikeshare systems, the Benchmarking team searched for bikeshare in each community, but did not include private dockless systems. COMMUNITY STATE CITY SIZE BIKESHARE SYSTEM NAME BIKESHARE WEBSITE Albuquerque NM Large…
The 2018 Benchmarking Report is a continuation of the 5 editions of the Benchmarking Report that were published by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. In compiling data for the 6th edition, the League of American Bicyclists chose to include as much data as possible, even if a community did not provide a response to…