Active Transportation Alliance & Team Captain Training Presented by Active Transportation Alliance & Keating Law Offices May 10th, 2019

Welcome Who is a returning Team Captain? Any new Team Captains? Shout out your name and organization!

Active Transportation Alliance Mission: promote walking, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable and equitable communities. Advocate for legislation that prioritizes and protects bicyclists, pedestrians and transit riders. Membership based

Bike to Work Challenge Free and Easy - Chicagoland organizations compete to log the most miles by riding to work Build morale and promote friendly competition among Chicagoland organizations Goal: Encourage new and experienced riders to commute to work by bike

Chicago Bike Week Rally Important Dates Bike to Work Challenge June 14th – 28th Chicago Bike Week Rally Friday, June 21st 7:00am – 9:00am Daley Plaza

2018 Stats 2018 Total Participants 3,468 Teams 276 Organizations 246

2018 Stats cont. 50% of riders are first time bike commuters 50% of all participants were between the ages of 26-40 60% identified as male while 40% identified as female 141,025 miles logged (~41 miles/rider) 26,876 trips were made (average of 7.75 trips/rider)

What is a Team Captain? Each competing workplace will have a volunteer team captain (you!) Your job is to encourage riders in your workplace to sign up and will act as your team’s biggest cheerleader

What Makes a Great Team Captain? Help register coworkers Encourage newbies to try it out Act as a resource for bike commuting tips Communicate often Set up group commutes What else?

How to Register & Create a Team Register at bike2workchallenge.org Create an “Organization Team” Search for your organization Create a team name

Team Management When logged in, Team Captains can… Add or delete team members Send out team communications Challenge other teams Change passwords Update organization info

Merch Order your Team Captain tech tee online during registration or on the Active Trans store Ship 4-6 weeks after the Challenge ends activetransreg.org/shop

How You Win Riders will have their points totaled as they log them Individual riders will be combined to get the team total All teams under one organization will be combined to get the organization total Whichever organization has the highest point total within their workplace tier wins! ALL points must be from June 14th – 28th

Organization Tiers Tiers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Public Agency < 5 5 – 24 25 – 99 100 – 499 500 – 2,499 2,500 – 4, 999 5,000 + For Profit Non-Profit /NGO Education Bike Related Business NEW! Divvy Business Member

Points ACTION POINT VALUE New Commuter 25 Points 1 Mile 1 Point Per Trip 5 Points 5 Consecutive Days 50 Points

NEW Referral Points Earn extra points for your team by encouraging others outside of your organization to sign up for the Bike to Work Challenge! You'll receive 10 points for each rider who signs up using your code, and they will receive 5 points Only riders outside of your organization will count toward your referral point total

What Counts as a Trip? A bike trip (or commute), for the purposes of the Bike to Work Challenge, is defined as: A partial or complete bike ride to or from work A bike ride to or from the bus, train, or alternate form of transportation taking you to or from work Only trips that are made for work purposes will be counted during the challenge. To be counted in your teams point total, all you need to do is complete ONE bike trip between June 14-28.

Log your Trips! Log trips online at bike2workchallenge.org/trip_log

Chicago Bike* Week Rally Ogilvie Transportation Center Pit Stops Fri, June 14 Mon, June 17 Tue, June 18 Wed, June 19 Thu, June 20 Fri, June 21 Field Museum 7:00am – 9:00am Chicago Bike* Week Rally 7:00am-9:00am Keating Law* Offices 5:00pm-7:00pm REI 5:00pm-7:00pm Timbuk2* Mon, June 24 Tue, June 25 Wed, June 26 Thu, June 27 Wallach Fountain 7:00am-9:00am Polish Triangle Ogilvie Transportation Center The 606 (Milwaukee & Leavitt) 5:00-7:00pm Theater on the Lake* 4:30pm-7:30pm

Prizes Winners in each organization tier Top male/female riders Save screen shots! Daily raffles to encourage trip logging

Questions?

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Thank you Keating Law Offices!

Registration & IT Manager Thank you! Kerry Holsinger Registration & IT Manager kerry@activetrans.org (312) 967-1016