A new study found more than half of the city’s bike-share trips replace car trips, with each bike reducing annual CO₂ emissions by up 120 kilograms (kg) per year.
A new study found more than half of the city’s bike-share trips replace car trips, with each bike reducing annual CO₂ emissions by up 120 kilograms (kg) per year. Researchers say that number jumps to nearly 400 kg if those same bikes were used more times per day.
“We calculated each bike in Vancouver’s fleet makes almost two and half trips per day. In terms of emissions impact, it takes 18 bikes to remove tailpipe emissions from one gas-powered car,” says Vahid Hosseini, lead author of the study and a professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering.
“That’s pretty good, but if those bikes were used eight times a day, it would only take five bikes for every one fossil fuel car and reduce tailpipe emissions by more than three per cent—all without adding a single bike-share station or bike to the fleet.”
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