ATOC surveys rail passengers for cycle hire demand throughout UK

With attention focused on bike hire schemes following London’s launch of its fleet of ‘Boris Bikes’, ATOC, the Association of Train Operating Companies, is conducting a nationwide survey to gauge the levels of interest in hiring bicycles at railway stations throughout the UK.

The survey, which can be found here, requires no registration and only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Questions are focused around how often and for what purpose you use the train, and in particular, how you reach your eventual destination after the end of the train journey, and how much you would be prepared to pay to hire a bike to complete it.

In recent months, ATOC has been compiling case studies and talking to stakeholders about railway station-linked cycle hire schemes, and the survey will allow it to get the views of as many cyclists and rail passengers as possible.