Long time ago now, but I wrote this when I was younger and worked at Brunel:
Batterbury SPJ, J. Firth 1996. Bikerail project final report. For the Cycle Public Affairs Action Group (CPAG).
It was a quite extensive demand study of potential bike commuters, using a basic census analysis of catchment areas around commuter rail stations and their potential for cycle commuting to the station. Locations were around London on some of the main rail routes. Also, we did a supply analysis of bike parking at stations, by visiting them. Our stuff was just supplied to CPAG rather than published. The theory was that secure bike parking at certain strategic stations with a populous catchment, and better infrastructure, would reduce driving to stations or driving to the city. Don't think bike hire schemes were even on the agenda then.
I am imagining the final Bikerail report produced by Peter Gazey et al (Mayer Hillman was also involved) in c1997 would have demonstrated the utility of re-investing in cycling by Britian's private train operators, but I heard nothing about this in the time I remained in UK (til 2001) and there is not much on the web.
I wonder if the recent surge of interest in this topic and action on it is using the methodology and reports from the 90s?
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