Encouraging eco commute through Bike to Work
summary
Community challenge runs 13 years across three events (30, 14, 7 days) and records 25,625 participants, >2,500 company teams in 52 cities and an estimated 739 t CO2 saved this round. Participants log trips as routes or just kilometers via a GPL open‑source frontend/backend on GitHub, cities receive aggregated route data (not fully public) to guide bike‑lane planning, and employers add showers/parking; a gamified redesign is currently being rolled out.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Bike to Work intro
- 1:54Organizers of the challenge
- 2:59How the challenge works
- 4:45Focus on eco commuting
- 5:49Participants in the contest
- 7:16Why join the challenge
- 9:43Redesign and open-source system
- 11:31Local government collaboration
- 13:19Data collection and access
- 14:45Competition structure
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