Personal Assessment
The first step in changing how we move around is getting an understanding on current behavior, attitudes, needs and wants.
In our first meeting, we work to understand your current mobility patterns and resources. We will learn about your specific needs and wants.
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The first conversation
What are your goals?
Are you interested in saving money, increasing fitness, making travel more enjoyable or living more sustainably – or all four? People chose active transport (cycling, walking, transit, scooters) for different reasons.
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How do you get around town now?
Most Americans have been taught to use the car to do everything. Do you use your car to go to work? To get groceries? To visit friends and family around town? To go the gym? Together we'll build a travel map of your most frequented destinations, the things and people you move about town and what matters most to you about those journeys.
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What does the car enable you to do?
Cars are deeply rooted in our culture and thus into the American psyche. What does the car offer you? For many cars offer sense of safety. We want to understand what best parts of car use -or the most rewarding uses of the car- are for you.
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If you do use active transport now, what motivates and de-motivates you to use it?
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have more transport options that most Americans do. Often we don't take advantage of these options because of time-pressure, fear of getting stranded, or simply not knowing the routes. What are your reasons? What are your experiences with cycling for utilitarian purposes? What are some of your positive and negative experiences with transit?
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What is your relationship to cycling? How comfortable do you feel outside of a car and on a bike?
A large fraction of Americans and an even larger fraction of Bay Arean's ride bikes for fun, but use the car for everything else. To understand what car trips can be converted to bike routes, we want understand what you like and dislike about bikes. Your comfort and sense of safety are of utmost importance, so getting to understand your pyschological approach to bikes is paramount. `