Have You Gone on a Bike Trip? Take our Economic Impact Survey!

Help us measure the economic impact of bicycle travel by participating in a short survey about one of your recent bicycle tours. This survey is a collaborative effort between Adventure Cycling Association and a team from the University of Montana Communications Department.

We've emailed it to approximately 5,000 people, those who have purchased maps from Adventure Cycling ? but we encourage anyone who's taken a bicycle tour of any length to participate.

Here is why your participation is valuable:

• Media Inquiries ? We get constant requests for information regarding bike tourism and its economic impact on communities. We rely on studies done by other organizations and agencies. As the bicycle travel experts, it's important that we are able to provide data that helps us legitimize bicycle travel.
• Community Benefits ? We are reaching out to communities along the Adventure Cycling Route Network, asking them to become bike-travel friendly. If we can quantify the benefits, these communities and their businesses will be that much more responsive, ultimately making the country a better place for bike travel.
• U.S. Bicycle Route System ? In our efforts to develop an officially recognized and numbered interstate bike route system, communities see the economic impact as a positive selling point.
• Grants and Funding ? Funders like to see results and economic impact is a great benefit to show in our requests for grants and donations.
• More funding for biking at the local, state, and national levels ? This data will help us leverage more funding for the kinds of infrastructure that makes bike travel more convenient and fun.

Your feedback on this survey will really help us build a "bicycle tourism is important" message. With more data to present to transportation agencies, tourism promoters, and community governments, we will help make America bicycle-travel friendly! The survey closes Sunday, November 13, so please take a few minutes and complete it today!

Photo by Lee Krohn.

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BUILDING THE U.S. BICYCLE ROUTE SYSTEM (USBRS) is posted by Ginny Sullivan, USBRS coordinator at Adventure Cycling, and features news and updates related to the emerging U.S. Bicycle Route System. The USBRS project is a collaborative effort, spearheaded by a task force under the auspices of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Members of the task force include officials and staff from state DOTs, the Federal Highway Administration, and nonprofits like the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and Mississippi River Trail, Inc.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/11/have-you-gone-on-bike-trip-take-our.html

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