Integration of Bicycles and Transit

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 62: Integration of Bicycles and Transit examines how transit agencies may improve their existing services and assist other communities in developing new bicycle and transit services. During the past decade, there has been significant growth in bicycle and transit integration. Transit agencies are increasingly mounting bicycle racks on buses, allowing bicycles to be brought on board trains, installing bicycle racks and lockers at transit stations, providing staffed bicycle parking facilities (also referred to as bike stations) at major transit hubs, and offering other bicycle services. Forty-five (80%) of the 56 North American transit agencies that responded to a survey for this report started at least one of their bicycle services after 1994, when TCRP Synthesis of Transit Practice 4: Integration of Bicycles and Transit was published.

The purpose of this report is to share information about how bicycles are integrated with public transportation by many different types of transit agencies in the United States and Canada. The information in this synthesis can be used to improve existing bicycle services and to assist other communities with developing new bicycle and transit services. This report is an update of TCRP Synthesis of Transit Practice 4.