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BiTiBi: Bike and Train. The easiest, fastest and healthiest combination to go to work from Bitibi.cat on Vimeo.
Combining Bicycles & Trains in EU Cities
BiTiBi services use the Dutch model as inspiration in promoting the bike-train- bike modal merger over cars and the combination of cars and trains. The project aims to replicate the Dutch system and to solve the typical issues such as lack of parking for bikes at stations; no last mile solution when taking the train; ineffective fare integration or worse, none at all; bike services not corresponding to user needs; no bicycle friendly access to train stations; lack of knowledge about the available services and cultural barriers to use a train-bike-train combination.THE GOALS
BiTiBi expects to substitute journeys by car with bike-train-bike transport and to increase the modal share of the bicycle for the first and last mile of train journeys in the pilot projects by 2017 - and in the EU by 2020. The project goal is to decrease car use by several million km/year and CO2 emissons byseveral 100 tons/year in the 4 pilot projects. Overall, BiTiBi strives to create cities across Europe that are healthier, more livable and less congested.
Video inspired in pilot projects in Sant Cugat del Vallès and Sant Boi de Llobregat (Catalonia), from catalan partners of BiTiBi european project.