Bicycle infrastructure has been built without sustainable funding models for maintenance, creating burdens on local municipalities. The proposed approach attaches commuter behavior to a measurable bicycle-commuter carbon avoidance credit to create a revenue stream. The system establishes a baseline for typical transportation modes and then measures the delta from substituting bicycle trips for motorized travel. An app-based profile and verification process provide the data needed to prove avoided emissions. The credits generated by verified bicycle commuting can help fund infrastructure, reduce carbon emissions, and recognize the bicycle as an extremely efficient transport mode.
Bicycle infrastructure, bicycle theft - and those are the things that really bothered me. For instance, if you take Route 66, as an example, and you built that highway from Chicago to Barney's Beanery in L.A. without hotels, gas stations or parking lots, cars wouldn't be able travel on that highway very far. On top of that, there would be no ability to come up with a maintenance of the highway by taxing or creating commerce based off the usage of that pathway.
And it was shortsighted. I applaud their efforts, but I think they've not done as well as they could have. So what we've done is we've tethered our commuter, in this case, I refer to our process, a bicycle commuter carbon avoidance credit. It's widely understood that bicycle is a bicycle, right? Bicycle as a mode of transportation still to date is the world's most efficient mode of transportation. Nothing comes close. Even walking.
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