Well, one car space's worth of covered Sheffields will accommodate up to twenty bikes...
I'd start with a survey including:
How far do you live from work?
How do you get to work?
Do you have a bus service? (yes/no/don't know)
Do/Would you cycle?
I want to anonymise results so I can collate post codes and preferred working times, in order to determine whether a car sharing scheme would be a good idea.
I was thinking questions enquiring about dependants - how many people have children to drop off at school and elderly parents they have to visit during the day etc. One option might be to provide these people with priority parking (as well as the car sharers). (I don't want to even get onto the school run... as soon as raised my hand in the discussion the gentleman leading the discussion piped up "I can't cycle, I have to collect the kids from school" - which probably means he won't cycle)
Also thought it would be good, on a voluntary basis, to offer travel planning for people who want to switch from car to public transport or cycle but need some extra advice.
GB,
All this started because we are the incumbents. Staff at another office are being moved here. They are seen as benefitting because they have a shift pattern that starts early and at the moment only 15 spaces amongst 100 of them. The consensus is that a first come, first served basis for parking is not acceptable to most the people already here.
Which is why I would like to see a fairer system based on need.
Maybe a points system, so:
more than 3 miles from the office: +1
more than 10 miles from the office: +3
not within 1 mile of a bus route/train station enabling transport to the office: +5
carer for children with responsibility for collection/drop off: +3
carer for adults: +3
physically disabled: +10
Car parking spaces are then allocated to the people with the highest need.
But I'm very aware of three problems with this model:
- costly to administrate
- people will lie
- could be seen as discrimination
Just getting people to think about how they get to and from work would be a start.