The Bike Commute Challenge is a friendly competition — workplace against workplace — to see who can get more people biking to work in September.
Any business, non-profit or public agency is eligible to participate — and individual cyclists can also participate on their own.
Businesses and non-profits compete in one category, while public agencies and bike shops each compete in a category of their own. Within those categories, workplaces are divided by number of employees, to keep competition fair.
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How it works
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What a Team Captain does
By default, the first person to register a company becomes the Team Captain. This can easily be changed later.
The Team Captain has "administrative" abilities on the website - they can add and delete team members, change passwords, email the entire team, and more. The Team Captain may also take on some social responsibilities at the workplace, organizing bike commuters' events or benefits with their company. And if these two jobs are best done by separate people, we can easily add a Co-Captain to any workplace team.
At companies with an official transportation coordinator, it may make sense for that person to be the Captain or a Co-Captain for the BCC.
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How we do the math
The number that determines who wins the overall Challenge in each size category is "percent of commutes done by bike."
This is how we calculate that number for each workplace:
Participants tell us how many days in September they worked and how many of those days they biked. We assume that all the non-participating employees at the workplace work the same average number of days in September.
We multiply the total number of employees at that workplace by the assumed average number of workdays per employee in the month to get the total number of commutes at that workplace in September. We then divide the number of bike commutes logged through the BCC by that workplace by the total commutes at that workplace to get the percent of commutes taken by bike.
Bike commutes taken by employees who are not participating in the BCC are not counted. A deviation between the average work schedule of BCC participants and that of their non-participating coworkers cannot be counteracted (this is a good reason to get a variety of employees to participate).
Total employees at the workplace = E
Average number of days in September BCC participants at that workplace worked = D
Total bike commutes logged by BCC participants at that workplace: B
Percent of commutes taken by bike = P%
P% = 100 x B/(D x E)
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What counts as a "bike commute"?
In keeping with our goal of introducing more people to the joys of biking, we have made it easy for people with longer or more difficultcommutes to participate in the BCC.
A "bike commute" can be:
If you are not biking all of the way to work, count only the one-way mileage of the bicycling part of your commute when you enter your one-way commute distance.
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Workplaces are divided into the following size and type categories based on information given us by Captains. To see how results are sorted within catgories, look at last year's results.
Businesses and Non-Profits, 1 employee
Businesses and Non-Profits, 2-4 employees
Businesses and Non-Profits, 5-24 employees
Businesses and Non-Profits, 25-99 employees
Businesses and Non-Profits, 100-499 employees
Businesses and Non-Profits, 500+ employees
Public Agencies, 1-24 employees
Public Agencies, 25-99 employees
Public Agencies, 100-499 employees
Public Agencies, 500+ employees
Bike Shops, 1-8 employees
Bike Shops, 9-15 employees
Bike Shops, 16+ employees
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About this website
This website was designed and developed by Grapheon Design and Web Collective.
If you are interested in acquiring a copy of this site to use for your challenge, contact the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Sign up for the Bike Commute Challenge
Whether you’re starting a team or joining a team, sign up today. It’s quick, easy, and free.