Steer has analyzed more than 60 million bikeshare trips made in the past two years to understand: how COVID-19 impacted bike share use in cities across the US and how this may have long-term impacts on bike share usage as cities emerge from lockdowns?
We selected six major cities in the US which have historically had high transit ridership and recent increases in demand for micromobility.
You can view the study here: US Bike Share Trends 2019 - 2021
Key findings from the study include:
Our analysis demonstrates how shared mobility behaviour has changed since 2019 due to Covid-19. Based on data from Q1 2021, in some places, these trends are still visible in 2021. There is a significant potential to maintain and build on-demand realized. Cities and local government can support the shift to cycling through maximizing the number of shared bikes available, electrification of the fleet (providing a wider reach for bike share), making permanent, temporary cycle infrastructure improvements and supporting the local realization of the 15-minute city concept.
Steer continues to support the launch and development of micromobility solutions in cities worldwide, working with local authorities and micromobility operators to maximize the benefits for a sustainable future.
We will update this analysis with more recent data once published by the cities and operators – stay tuned!
Learn more about the tool, including how and why it was developed and how it can benefit your organisation.
Steer was appointed to assist in developing and evaluating turnaround strategies for Kenya Airways (KQ). The aim was to identify the least-cost option for the airlines largest shareholder (Government of Kenya). The airline has been insolvent since 2011.
Steer's responsibility was to advise the client on the different options for the airline's future, providing a reasoned and quantified analysis. The possibilities considered ranged from continuing business as usual to restructuring options to complete closure of the airline.
We reviewed the airline's current commercial, operational, and financial standing. Then, based on bespoke commercial and economic models we had developed, we projected its performance over the next few years, in both commercial and financial terms, under each option considered.
We developed recommendations for the preferred option based on impacts on the airline, government finances, and the Kenyan economy.
The airline management used our analysis and recommendations in its strategy and funding discussions with the National Treasury and international finance institutions. Our report provided an independent view to be considered alongside the proposals put forward by airline management to its funders.
Steer Economic Development was commissioned by East Midlands Councils to produce an Options Paper examining the scope for establishing a new science and innovation hub at Toton (Nottinghamshire). The work was part of the wider commission involving consultants Ekosgen, who had been examining the economic potential of the Toton and its adjacent land and property assets as the prospect of an HS2 station came into view.
Steer Economic Development’s brief was to pay particular attention to the new science and innovation opportunities that improved connectivity provided by HS2 might unlock. Accordingly, we thought through in detail potential ideas for innovation-related developments over the coming 15+ years.
This posed several challenges given the rapid pace of advances in science and innovation – advances that create the risk that concepts compelling today, in the light of current circumstances, might likely be obsolete or require significant redesign by the time on-the-ground construction commences. These challenges highlighted the key need for downstream flexibility and reversibility in the ideas and options that the team came forward with.
Our recommended response was that an over-arching design concept for science and innovation could be structured as three complementary waves of investments. Each of these waves would build on preceding layers of capability and experience. The proposed waves were:
An innovation hotel precinct and high-end office space: extending the boundaries of temporary accommodation (the ‘hotel’ and its associated services for travellers) to encompass functional spaces specifically designed to facilitate creative collaboration in research and innovation.
Agile innovation and research collaboration facilities: allowing exploratory ‘try before you buy’ collaborations to take place quickly and cheaply.
More ambitious cutting-edge facilities with a high-profile national interest dimension. For example, an HS2-enabled clinical innovation treatment facility might be appropriate for Toton, where innovative medical engineering projects might be undertaken alongside a National Major Incident Response Hub (using HS2 connectivity for a national major incident response centre), and perhaps in due course a National Centre for Emergency Innovation.
The work was well received by our client and is now being used as one of the inputs to identify how best to optimise the ‘Toton HS2 opportunity’.
Yes, you are in the right place. After 40 years, we have changed our name from Steer Davies Gleave to mark our growing international footprint and our expanding portfolio into sectors beyond transport.
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