Amendment to PSA - Toole Design Group - Bike Share Feasibility Study-Business Plan

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Task 3: System Size Determination The bike share system will connect key activity centers, colleges and universities, major employers, transit hubs, and neighborhoods and will need to serve residents, employees, college students, and visitors. The logical first phases of the system are the areas around and within the Downtown South Bend - Notre Dame - Indiana University triangle and the City has conducted previous work to identify 50 possible locations for bike share stations. TDG will review the locations identified by the City and combine these with the project team's knowledge of South Bend, the results of the driving tour, and a high- level GIS analysis to develop a proposed system service area and phasing plan for the bike share program. The GIS analysis will use available data to explore concentrations of population, employment, local and visitor attractions and key destinations, transit hubs and routes, and bikeway infrastructure. The result will be a Draft Service Area and Phasing Plan that will recommend the area that the system should cover, how the system should be rolled out, and how large each phase should be including the number stations, docks, and bikes. These recommendations will draw on best practices from existing bike share programs around the country. The Draft Service Area and Phasing Plan will be delivered to the City Project Managerfor review and distribution to other stakeholders. TDG will respond to one set of consolidated comments to prepare a Final Service Area and Phasing Plan. As an interim project deliverable, TDG will use the initial results of this task to prepare a high-level estimate of expected system costs that will be provided to the City Project Manager before July 31 st so that the City can Include line items for bike share in the next budget cycle. A more detailed pro -forma will be developed as part ofTask4. Task 3 Deliverables: Budget allocation numbers (by July 3111) Draft Service Area and Phasing Plan Final Service Area and Phasing Plan 10 Toole Design Group Task 4: Social and Geographic Equity Plan TDG will conduct a GIS analysis and use stakeholder input to identify traditionally underserved populations and see where there may be opportunities to incorporate these populations into the early phases of the program. The plan will also draw from experience in other cities and current best practice to develop a list of strategies focused on improving access to the system that may include: • Marketing and outreach Discounted memberships Station locations and system planning • Jobs program Partnerships with other organizations • Overall pricing structure • Providing access to the system for people without credit cards Task 4 Deliverables: Social and geographic equity plan INEXPENSIVE a.Yu,Flp HEALTH 30 r EXTENDTRANSIT 2/3 ECONOMIC IMPACT 33°fin, . i . •i NEW RIDERS v3WUM.o W,of Nice Ride in Minmapolis hod ridden le>s Ik,n omo per moth ba}are pining