More thinking about TDM

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Updated at the end with stuff about Ikea from Streetsblog.
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When I have been involved in promoting transportation demand management in multiunit housing buildings in DC, I hate to admit that I have focused on transit promotion and carsharing requirements, and not bicycling.

I am not sure that any buildings in DC include carsharing memberships for their tenants, although I know this has been proposed for various developments in places like Philadelphia.

In testimony I wrote on the Takoma Metro station development ("Comments on Proposed EYA Development at Takoma Metro") I suggested including zero carparking spaces for residents, instead providing carsharing spaces, as well as spaces dedicated for public parking to support the subway station and the Takoma DC-Takoma Park, MD commercial district.

Looks like we need to consider creating bicycle sharing options within multiunit buildings. (Some hotels are just starting to do this. See "Concierge? I’d Like a Bike, Please," from Streetsblog.) In "Cycle-sharing schemes reduce parking violations, raise profits," the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports that:

At a condominium in Konohana Ward, Osaka, which was completed in October, each of the 220 families living there was allotted a space for two bicycles. However, five bicycles are also available for sharing at the condominium for families needing to use more than two bicycles or for residents who do not have bicycles, but occasionally want to ride one.

Residents can use the bicycles at a cost of 100 yen for 12 hours. "I only ride a bicycle once a month, so sharing is enough for me," said Ryosuke Goto, 27, a resident at the condominium.

Osaka-based River Industry Co., which sold the condominium, has introduced bicycle-sharing schemes at seven condominiums it has completed since 2006. The firm also plans to introduce such schemes at condominiums it is planning to build in the future.

By including bicycle trailers and even a workbike maybe, a variety of travel needs could be met with a set of different types of shared bikes that would be owned and maintained by a condominium association. (100 yen is about $1.)

(Story from Japan from "Bicycle Sharing Easing Parking Problems" in the Reinventing Transport blog via the worldcitybike e-list)
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2. In "Ikea Tests Bike-Share in Denmark. Why Not NYC?," Streetsblog discusses bike rental delivery options implemented by Ikea in Denmark. I have mentioned this kind of idea in the past, such as with Eastern Market, DC's public market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. But there is no reason that supermarkets and big box type stores such as Target couldn't do the same thing.

If we had transportation demand management planning required as a matter of course within DC, these kinds of programs could be implemented and car trips would be foregone. (Images from the Velorbis bicycle manufacturer website.)