A CASE STUDY OF BICYCLE PARKING AT SELECTED BRISBANE RAIL STATIONS

Dutch investments in secure bicycle parking at stations and modal interchanges since 1985 has made rail travel more competitive with car travel. In comparison, Australia is doing very little, except for Citytrain in Brisbane who have provided bicycle lockers since 1992 and now have 1,900 free lockers with a waiting list for over 1,000 more. The Dutch experience suggests that Citytrain has only picked up part of the latent demand for bike/rail travel. Even so, this paper shows that Citytrain has demonstrated that able bodied Australians will cycle to a station if the serious problems of bicycle theft and vandalism are addressed with free lockers. It is concluded that this is Australian best practice. Furthermore, as rail patrons mostly use lockers for commuting to work or places of education on all rail systems, Citytrain's provision of 453 lockers per 10,000 commuters should be accepted as an achievable 5 year target. This target when translated as additional lockers required on other rail systems is: Melbourne 3800, Sydney 8800, Adelaide 240, and Perth 480. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E209537.