1. Active Transportation Alliance &
Team Captain Training
Presented by
Active Transportation Alliance &
Keating Law Offices
May 10th, 2019

2. Welcome Who is a returning Team Captain? Any new Team Captains?
Shout out your name and organization!

3. Active Transportation Alliance
Mission: promote walking, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable and equitable communities.
Advocate for legislation that prioritizes and protects bicyclists, pedestrians and transit riders.
Membership based

4. Bike to Work Challenge
Free and Easy - Chicagoland organizations compete to log the most miles by riding to work
Build morale and promote friendly competition among Chicagoland organizations
Goal: Encourage new and experienced riders to commute to work by bike

5. Chicago Bike Week Rally
Important Dates
Bike to Work Challenge
June 14th – 28th
Chicago Bike Week Rally
Friday, June 21st
7:00am – 9:00am
Daley Plaza

6. 2018 Stats
2018
Total Participants
3,468
Teams
276
Organizations
246

7. 2018 Stats cont. 50% of riders are first time bike commuters
50% of all participants were between the ages of 26-40
60% identified as male while 40% identified as female
141,025 miles logged (~41 miles/rider)
26,876 trips were made (average of 7.75 trips/rider)

8. What is a Team Captain?
Each competing workplace will have a volunteer team captain (you!)
Your job is to encourage riders in your workplace to sign up and will act as your team’s biggest cheerleader

9. What Makes a Great Team Captain?
Help register coworkers
Encourage newbies to try it out
Act as a resource for bike commuting tips
Communicate often
Set up group commutes
What else?

10. How to Register & Create a Team
Register at bike2workchallenge.org
Create an “Organization Team”
Search for your organization
Create a team name

11. Team Management When logged in, Team Captains can…
Add or delete team members
Send out team communications
Challenge other teams
Change passwords
Update organization info

12. Merch
Order your Team Captain tech tee online during registration or on the Active Trans store
Ship 4-6 weeks after the Challenge ends
activetransreg.org/shop

13. How You Win Riders will have their points totaled as they log them
Individual riders will be combined to get the team total
All teams under one organization will be combined to get the organization total
Whichever organization has the highest point total within their workplace tier wins!
ALL points must be from June 14th – 28th

14. Organization Tiers Tiers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Public Agency < 5 5 – 24
25 – 99
100 – 499
500 – 2,499
2,500 – 4, 999
5,000 +
For Profit
Non-Profit /NGO
Education
Bike Related Business
NEW! Divvy Business Member

15. Points ACTION POINT VALUE New Commuter 25 Points 1 Mile 1 Point
Per Trip
5 Points
5 Consecutive Days
50 Points

16. NEW Referral Points
Earn extra points for your team by encouraging others outside of your organization to sign up for the Bike to Work Challenge!
You'll receive 10 points for each rider who signs up using your code, and they will receive 5 points
Only riders outside of your organization will count toward your referral point total

17. What Counts as a Trip?
A bike trip (or commute), for the purposes of the Bike to Work Challenge, is defined as:
A partial or complete bike ride to or from work
A bike ride to or from the bus, train, or alternate form of transportation taking you to or from work
Only trips that are made for work purposes will be counted during the challenge.
To be counted in your teams point total, all you need to do is complete ONE bike trip between June

18. Log your Trips!
Log trips online at bike2workchallenge.org/trip_log

19. Chicago Bike* Week Rally Ogilvie Transportation Center
Pit Stops
Fri, June 14
Mon, June 17
Tue, June 18
Wed, June 19
Thu, June 20
Fri, June 21
Field Museum 7:00am – 9:00am
Chicago Bike* Week Rally
7:00am-9:00am
Keating Law* Offices
5:00pm-7:00pm
REI 5:00pm-7:00pm
Timbuk2*
Mon, June 24
Tue, June 25
Wed, June 26
Thu, June 27
Wallach Fountain
7:00am-9:00am
Polish Triangle
Ogilvie Transportation Center
The 606 (Milwaukee & Leavitt)
5:00-7:00pm
Theater on the Lake* 4:30pm-7:30pm

20. Prizes Winners in each organization tier Top male/female riders
Save screen shots!
Daily raffles to encourage trip logging

21. Questions?

22. Revolution Brewing
Bike Safety Checks

23. Thank you Keating Law Offices!

24. Registration & IT Manager
Thank you!
Kerry Holsinger
Registration & IT Manager
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