Bike Registration Incentives

[Marcus Bagnell]

Hey Everyone!

   I was trying to think of incentives for students to register their bikes. Right now the only incentives are that they can recover if it is impounded or recovered from being stolen. I was thinking of maybe offering a few free daily parking passes to commuters who don't buy parking passes. I found a few things that other universities are doing that were interesting too.  

Loyola University Chicago offers $20 Kryptonite Ulocks and access to fenced in, keycard access, camera monitored bike racks to people who register:

http://www.luc.edu/safety/ulock_program.html

Ohio State University offers FREE RFIDs to track your bike if it's stolen:

http://www.ps.ohio-state.edu/police/programs/

Does anyone know of other programs? Those U-locks are more than %50 off, which is pretty sweet.

I guess we haven't talked much about registration in general. The obvious pros for it are in the case of bike theft or impoundment. I also thought it would be good to keep track of the number of people using bikes on campus so that when we want money for bike stuff we can show UCF the number of people who need it. I've heard people concerned about the possibility of getting ticketed for things if they know who's bike it is. Also, if there's not much benefit to the rider, then why does UCF need to know who we are? Also you may have to get stickers on your bike.

So: 

What do you think of bike registration in general?

and

If we can create benefits to make it beneficial to get bikes registered, should we?

[Juan Barredo]

In general I think those parking stickers give a false sense of security.  I mean, are there some statistics that show that bikes with those parking stickers are less likely to be stolen?  That would be one hell of a convincing piece of evidence to incentivise kids to register their bikes.  But yeah, I like the chip idea even though it's scary as hell (to libertarians, and left wingers).

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[Christina Willis]

I think it would be very easy to prove that bikes locked in a space with that key card access to video monitoring are less likely to get stolen.  If we could set something like that up with UCF that would be great.

And in terms of proving to the administration that we have a large bike community with needs, having thousands of registered bicyclists on record would do that.

C

[Juan Barredo]

That's true.

On Oct 11, 2010 11:07 AM, "Christina Willis" <cwi...@creol.ucf.edu> wrote:

I think it would be very easy to prove that bikes locked in a space with that key card access to video monitoring are less likely to get stolen.  If we could set something like that up with UCF that would be great.

And in terms of proving to the administration that we have a large bike community with needs, having thousands of registered bicyclists on record would do that.

C

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Juan Barredo <diec...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In general I think ...

[dylan parrish]

The chip thing definitely scares me, but I do think registering could definitely have it's perks. If we could get discounted stuff, such as the cheap u-locks, that would be some incentive to register. I think that having more secure bike parking would be beneficial, but only to a very limited extent. In reality, I think that the only ones who'd use that parking are people who live on campus or stay overnight otherwise, rather than people who commute daily. I certainly wouldn't lock my bike up in one spot all day (walking to class is LAME!) unless it was raining or something. 

I am in favoring of registering, though (so long as it does not mean them ticketing me). More bikes registered means more awareness from UCF (hopefully)

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[dylan parrish]

Also, for the last twenty minutes i've been trying to register my bike with parking services, but cannot figure out where / how to do so. All I could find was a personal property registration through UCF PD. Just saying. 

[Marcus Bagnell]

As far as I know, you have to go down to parking services and do it there. They don't advertise that they do it online at all.  I guess no one was interested which made parking services not want to do it so no one did it and it just fizzled. It seems like it would help for bike theft recovery (and possibly theft prevention if people know things like RFID tracking is possible) and showing UCF that they need to up their bike infrastructure if there are a lot of registrations.  Plus if we could get some sweet incentives then that'd be nice.  I was just wanting to see what people think because it's something we could bring up with parking services.  I'm not really sure that there are all that many pros to it. A lot of other campuses have it but I'm not sure if that's a push from the administration or a pull from students. It's just something to keep in mind as we might have some say over how it's done since we're such a big deal and all :-) 

[brittany g]

i like the parking incentives, bc i hate riding to school in the rain. and i like the idea of rfids' being in the decal tag things too- and those should be really cheap to implement for the school as well.

[Christina Willis]

I think to get an initial burst of registrations, Spokes Council as an entity should encourage registration by offering some incentive (perhaps partner with a bike shop for some sort of coupon?  purchase something in bulk and give it away or at a reduced price?). 

Maybe you should host a Registration Event, like do a costume ride over to parking services and all register together at once, then give people who register the incentive on the spot.  You could get SGA funding for an event (though not for give-aways).

I could really get behind that idea.  I'm not a senator anymore, but I can help put something together for an allocation or a bill.

cheers,
C