Title

Bike-to-Work Communities of Practice

Los Angeles, CA

Contact

PROJECT LEAD

Fabian, Elburz, and Josue Wagmister

CONTACT INFO

  • fabian@ucla.edu, elburz@sorkhabi.io, cibic.management@gmail.com

THE IDEA

The Los Angeles team implemented CiBiC, combining a human infrastructure bicycle commuting approach with a mobile application and participatory artwork to create a local bike-to-work community of practice.

THE CHALLENGE

CiBiC (Civic Bicycle Commuting) seeks to Increase the number of people from low-income neighborhoods in Northeast Downtown Los Angeles who bike to work, using a highly structured community-driven group bicycling system. Generating higher levels of transportation satisfaction provides a healthier, more economical, and sustainable alternative for the problematic options currently available.

THE TEAM

Research Partners:

  • UCLA REMAP
  • Sorkhabi International
  • Ride Amigos
  • SudoMagic
  • Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke

Civic Partners:

  • People for Mobility Justice 
  • Los Angeles River State Parks 
  • Partners 
  • LA METRO 
  • Questions 
 

THE APPROACH

CiBic reimagines bicycle commuting by supporting and encouraging bike-to-work flows. Users can install the CiBic smartphone app, where they will find the directional route and the group of riders that best align with their destination. Creating higher levels of transportation not only helps solve current transportation issues, but also provides positive externalities such as a healthier population and economic growth.

THE IMPACT

  • Designed, implemented and tested a human infrastructure bicycle commuting approach  (flow-curators, pod stewards, rider mentors) and the functional guidelines for safe group riding to work.
  • Completed and tested the public release of an app featuring routing, grouping algorithms and integrating system-specific communications layers. 
  • Developed the data-driven, user contributed, participatory artwork expressing the evolving system (riders, pods, flows) to enhance collective identity and  visualize transportation satisfaction of participants.
  • Generated high community awareness for the project and implemented multiple recruiting strategies.