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Indoor Bike Rooms Need a Rebuild

Why is bike parking in buildings still an afterthought for many real estate owners and property managers? Are we investing in e-bike charging infrastructure to the extent we are for EVs? When it comes to building better bike rooms and end of trip facilities - what works better - the carrot or the stick?

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How Best to Design for, Store, and Safely Charge Micromobility

Navigating the evolving landscape of urban transportation and mobility in 2025 is a complex challenge for building owners, developers, and landlords, especially as micromobility (bikes, e-bikes, and e-scooters) becomes more prevalent in our cities, towns, campuses and the buildings that we occupy.

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Urban Design & Mobility Observations from Korea and Japan

Tokyo - what can I say? The place is mesmerizing. Quiet and bustling at the same time. There is this dichotomy of this massive city and off the busy streets, there are little villages everywhere…the mid-rise buildings seemed to never end, and on every opening view of a street between buildings, I saw people walking, biking, and virtually no cars. Tokyo really feels like a city that is designed for humans to thrive.

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Energy Efficiency in Real Estate Includes Transportation

Positioning bikes and micromobility as an essential part of modern, urban living aligns a real estate asset with tenants that value health, wellness, and sustainability. TDM strategies encourage multimodal trips, prioritizing transit, biking, and walking, which aligns with many local city guidelines and policies for mode shift. This is exactly what energy efficiency looks like.

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Bike and Scooter Share in the US - What is its Future?

With all of the turmoil in the shared micromobility industry since December, the question arises again - should bike and scooter share systems be supported by city, state, and federal subsidies in the same fashion that public transportation is? Venture capital entering the arena of public bike sharing initially was a sign that there is a viable, and growing market for active transportation in cities, and people love the service.

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How Do E-scooters Fit Within the Transportation Landscape?

Ultimately, we need to figure out ways to reduce car use as cities become more congested, and there is a growing need to reduce emissions and improve air quality. More space is being redesigned for people walking, biking, and rolling which can be further activated if financial incentives are enacted beyond e-bikes and are also applied to e-scooters - enabling more of these micromobility options for people to buy, rent, lease, or share.

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Hello from Greenbuild! Tackling Building and Transportation Emissions

I’m excited to have conversations with sustainability professionals that are tackling one of the top 2 largest carbon emitting sectors in the US - real estate - which includes the energy that buildings use, as 30% of all emissions, according to the EPA. The other sector in the top 2 is transportation emissions, on par at 29%. A truly sustainable built environment requires a holistic view in cutting emissions, including changing how we move.

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Active Travel in Real Estate: Nice to Have >> Must Have Amenity

To really lure employers and employees to work from the office, placemaking is essential and so is doing whatever possible to make the commute a better experience. People want to actively commute by bicycling, running, or walking, but if a building doesn't provide secure and ample parking, lockers, showers, changing rooms, and easy access, then increasingly, that building will become outdated.

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Paris, Pilots, and Public Subsidy

Running pilots are key to developing successful long-term mobility solutions that replace SOV car trips, reduce emissions, and improve a community’s vitality. Experimentation with various business models and public-private partnerships is crucial, and not every community should take the same approach.

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E-Bike Adoption & Infrastructure: Not a Chicken or Egg Scenario

In order to transform our communities to be more walkable, bike friendly places, it's a dual battle of incentivizing more people to ride (more frequently) and making people feel safe while doing so. The former is relatively easy to implement but can only go so far if the latter is not addressed.

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Upstream vs. Downstream E-Mobility Solutions

So many issues in an organization and in our society are handled downstream, in reaction to a problem. The recent surge of banning e-scooters and e-bikes is a downstream solution; the problem with a downstream solution such as a ban is that it doesn't consider the reason that people use these newer e-mobility devices in the first place.

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Parking Minimums and Why Policy Change Matters

As much as the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions is dependent on our personal choice and the decisions that the private sector makes, a lot more than many of us realize is dependent on what our local city staff and elected officials are doing now to reform archaic policies that were codified at the dawn of the car being adopted by the average American, and well before we realized the externalities that car culture has produced.

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Going Beyond the Status Quo

Everything slowed down a bit in New York, and the reemergence created an opportunity to take aggressive action in striping bike lanes, closing streets to cars, and carving out more space for people, bikes, and their micromobility vehicles. These converging forces together gave root to a public that wanted their own way of getting around more easily, more freely, replacing the subway train with more enjoyable commutes.

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Congestion Pricing as a Solution in America?

How do we reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in transportation? The recent passing of the Inflation Reduction Act and the EV incentives to go along with it will help in theory, though that doesn't do enough to get people out of their cars, as implementing local policies and consumer trends in general can do.

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Drive Less and Save

“Find a cheaper gas station”, “Go out and buy an electric car.” While I fully support the transition to electric vehicles and moving our economy away from fossil fuels, car dependence is the real issue.

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