Bike Score Launched

Bike Score launched just in time for Bike to Work Week, and are showing their first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score.
They’ll add Bike Scores for the top 10 cities receiving votes between now and the end of National Bike Month on May 31, 2012.

How Bike Score Works
Bike Score provides a 0-100 rating of the bikeability of a location based on the availability of bike infrastructure (lanes and trails), the hilliness of the area, destinations and road connectivity, and the number of bike commuters.

The Bike Score for a city is then calculated by applying the Bike Score algorithm block-by-block throughout the city and weighting the scores by population density. Read the methodology details.
They collected thousands of votes for over one hundred ideas from their community on how to calculate a Bike Score.


The Bike Score methodology was developed in collaboration with Professor Meghan Winters at Simon Fraser University and Professors Michael Brauer and Kay Teschke at the University of British Columbia under a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Bicycling by the Numbers
• Americans made 4 billion trips by bicycle in 2009, more than twice as many as in 2001.
• Bike commuting increased 43% between 2000 and 2010.
• 71% of Americans say they would like to bicycle more than they do now.
Read their official press release or view the Bike Score rankings.

Bike Score: Built by bikers, for bikers!