People-Powered Transit Bike Bus

Possible Academic Connections: Civil Engineering

Recommended project length: Semester, year

Experiential Learning? Likely

Community Engagement? Not likely

Remote learning possible? Partial

Connection to OHIO Sustainability & Climate Action Plan: Climate, Transportation, Student Life

Brief description: Create a human-powered bike bus (bike with 8-12 seats) to increase healthy, active transportation among students on campus.

Project description

Utilize student/faculty expertise to design and build a human-powered bike bus. For this project, students will design a bike bus (bike with 8-12 seats) and work with faculty to build the bike with used bike parts. Students will also plan a route that the bike can be ridden on. Creating a bike bus will promote active human transportation and give students an easy, healthy way to go to class with their peers.

Resources Available to Students/Faculty to Complete Project

• Faculty time
• Leftover metal/parts from old bikes

Project alignment to OHIO Sustainability & Climate Action Plan

• Climate (goal #1
• Transportation (goals # 1 and #2)
• Student Life (goal #1)

Please send final project deliverables to sustainability@ohio.edu for tracking and reporting purposes.