Electrifying Cully, Catherine Teebay
•Télécharger en tant que PPTX, PDF•
0 j'aime•574 vues
Catherine Teebay, Forth gave this presentation on May 2nd, 2018 at Forth's networking event in Seattle.
Recommandé
Recommandé
Contenu connexe
Tendances
Tendances (20)
Plus de Forth
Plus de Forth (20)
Dernier
Dernier (20)
Electrifying Cully, Catherine Teebay
- 1. Electrifying Cully The Community Electric Vehicle (CEV) and Community E-Bike (CEB) Projects Catherine Teebay, Program Manager 2 May 2018
- 2. Cully • Most diverse census tract in Oregon • 43% of residents are renters • 85% of Cully students qualify for free or reduced lunch • Limited transit and transportation options (redlined by Getaround) • Adjacent to rail lines, industrial 2
Notes de l'éditeur
- Introduction My presentation today will cover two demonstration pilots that Forth launched in 2017. The first project is the Community Electric Vehicle project, which was an affordable car sharing pilot in the Cully neighborhood of Portland. The second project is the Community E-Bike project which was a response to discovering that many folks in Cully would not benefit from the CEV project because they did not have driver’s licenses. This project provided e-bikes to individuals for 10 weeks at a time to see if it was a viable transportation solution for them.
- Both the entirety of the CEV project and the third and final cohort of the CEB project took place in Cully. Cully is relatively close to city center in Northeast Portland and is an area that is facing and currently going through high rates of gentrification and displacement That being said, it is an incredibly diverse community where dozens of languages are spoken and many refugees and immigrants reside It is also a fairly working class area where many of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch and many families work long hours. Notably, Cully is poorly connected to transit and other transportation options. 5 bus lines have stops in Cully, but there is no access to light rail, no bikeshare hubs, and services like ReachNow and Car2Go do not service the entire neighborhood. Furthermore, when developing this project, we discovered that Getaround refuses to service Cully because its ZIP codes have been deemed too risky. We partnered with Hacienda Community Development Corporation, a Latino CDC that works to provide affordable housing and economic and educational opportunities in the Cully neighborhood. Hacienda helped with marketing the program within their community, they administered the program onsite, and they also utilized one of the vehicles as a staff vehicle to help reduce their mileage costs.
- The Community Electric Vehicle project consisted of 3 Honda Fit EVs-2 for the Community Car Sharing Pilot and 1 for use by Hacienda CDC staff who previously had no access to a company car. The community cars were available for rental through the peer to peer carsharing platform, Turo. The cost was $10/day with out insurance and $15/day with insurance. $10/day was chosen because it was the lowest rate we could set on Turo. Hacienda staff denied rental requests from people living outside of the Cully neighborhood to ensure access to Cully residents. Rentals lasted from 1-5 days with 45 rentals over the course of the first 9 months.
- This is a picture of the Lazaros, the first family to rent one of the Honda Fit EVs. We also provided a car seat for children for families that may not have had their own. Hacienda saved over $1000 on mileage and made almost $1000 on the rentals. This is money that Hacienda was able to feed back into other programs. This project was possible with the help of various partners and foundations including: The 11th Hour Project-part of the Schmidt Family Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, American Honda Motor Company, Pacific Power, CarCharging Group, and Hacienda CDC. American Honda Motor Co. generously offered to extend the lease on the Honda Fit EVs so Hacienda currently has one available for continued staff use and one available for community use. Furthermore, two Honda Fit EVs were placed with Oregon Food Bank to help them transport food and supplies around the Portland Metro. These vehicles will be at Hacienda and OFB through the end of 2018.
- When we started to scope the Community Electric Vehicle project, we quickly realized that the CEV project was not going to work for everyone We found that many people in the Cully community did not have a driver’s license and would therefore, not be able to take part in the CEV project. In 2014, Oregonians voted to not allow undocumented folks to obtain driver’s licenses. Furthermore, some people may never have had the resources to learn how to drive or may have grown up in an area well connected by transit. For this project, we partnered with the Portland-based nonprofit, Community Cycling Center, which works to make bicycles more accessible to all. One of their Program Managers, Ira Dixon, helped to administer both the first and second cohorts and taught the safety course to all riders. Furthermore, CCC mechanics at their bike shop helped to maintain and repair all of the conventional parts of all of the e-bikes. The project consisted of 3, 10 week cohorts, that consisted of 8-10 participants each. We used 10 GenZe e-bikes and fully outfitted them with lights, fenders, racks, and panniers. Every participant also received a water bottle, helmet, and reflectors. The first cohort consisted of people that CCC knew, the second cohort consisted of people commuting to and from the various Portland Community College campuses, and the last cohort was based in Cully and consisted of individuals from the neighborhood bicycling advocacy ground, Andando en Bicicletas en Cully (ABC) which was a predominantly Latina cohort. Overall the results were positive, with a few participants being able to retain or obtain better employment opportunities. This project was made possible by the 11 Hour Project and GenZe. Additionally, we purchased most of our gear from CCC’s shop on Alberta and used locally made panniers from North St. Bags.
- If you would like to receive copies of either or both of the case studies, please bring one of your business cards up to me and I’ll add your email to our case study mailing list.