BIKE TO WORK 2024 – GO TO WORK WITH A CLEAR HEAD
CYCLING COMMUTERS AND THOSE WHO ALWAYS WANTED TO DO IT, BEWARE!
From September 16th to October 29th there is every reason to change saddles with the city of Dortmund's third “Bike to Work” campaign. Anyone who chooses a bike instead of a car in the morning is making a decision against stress, for the environment and, through air and exercise, also a decision for more work-ride balance. As a team competition, “Bike to Work” is primarily intended to make the commute to work an experience and bring colleagues together.
Statistics
The campaign is already in full swing and significant successes have already been achieved:
315
Participants
105
Teams
5078
Recorded rides
41578
kilometers completed
6111
kg CO₂ saved
412109
earned Team-points
HOW DOES IT WORK?
In the bike app “Bike Citizens” offered by the city of Dortmund, you can register for the “Bike to Work” campaign and form teams with your colleagues and compete against each other. From now on, it's important to get on your bike as often as possible and enjoy driving with the wind on your way to and from work. With every route you cycle to the office, you collect points that will move your team and your company forward in the challenge. This means that every team and every company can move up in the nationwide ranking week after week. Participation – and the app itself – is of course free for everyone thanks to funding from the city.
BIKE CITIZENS
If you don't use the Bike Citizens app yet, download the app for iOS (App Store) or Android (Play Store).
IN-APP CAMPAIGN
At Plaza you will find the “Bike to Work Dortmund” campaign. Simply go through the necessary steps to register there.
DETERMINE WORKPLACE
Since only the route to your workplace counts as points in the campaign, please mark your workplace first. Afterwards, all cycling trips that start or end within a radius of 300 meters will be automatically added to the campaign.
JOIN TEAM
You decide for yourself whether you want to create a new team or join an existing team. The maximum team size is 5 people.
BIKE TO WORK!
Done! Now all you have to do is worry about the essentials: cycling, recording routes and having fun.
CYCLING IS WORTH IT!
Diligent cycling needs to be rewarded and as the saying goes? More Espresso – Less Depresso, right? For this reason, a coffee bike will drive up to the three employers whose teams have collectively collected the most points through perseverance and perseverance and reward all cyclists with free drinks for a working day.
COLLECT BIKECOINS
Anyone who is registered for the “Bike Benefit” campaign, which is also active in the app, collects the virtual currency BikeCoin along with the routes they cycle. These can be redeemed for small gifts, discounts, free ice cream or a free drink in Dortmund retailers. All information about this is available here
4 TIMES
Cycling on 2 days and get ½ BikeCoin!
7 TIMES
Cycling on 2 days and get 1 BikeCoin!
10 TIMES
Cycling on 2 days and get 2 BikeCoin!
FREE DOWNLOAD
Download the “Bike Citizens” APP onto your cell phone and you’re ready to go
To the background
The campaign is part of the measures that the city of Dortmund is taking to make mobility in the city more sustainable. Every single person contributes to making Dortmund more bike-friendly in the future. Popular routes are recorded anonymously and GDPR-compliant via the app. The data is stored on servers in Germany and is not passed on or sold to third parties. The tracked routes are incorporated into the creation of a heatmap, which is intended to support the city of Dortmund's traffic planning in order to sustainably improve cycling friendliness in Dortmund. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) supports these measures.
