Bicycle Friendly Business

RPM Transportation Consultants, LLC | Gold Level

Business Highlights: RPM Transportation Consultants is big on bike safety and education. The business holds safe riding training session for staff and partners with state and regional officials to improve bicycle safety by enhancing crash reporting of bicycle/pedestrian accidents. RPM employees are active in local area bicycle/pedestrian advocacy organizations.  Specifically, they serve in elected positions as board members of the following organizations: Sorba Middle TN Chapter, National Mountain Bike Patrol, Ride for Reading, and Walk/Bike Nashville.

Most Compelling Bike Related Statistic: Forty percent of staff regularly commute by bike and average approximatly 2,000 miles annually.

Most Compelling Bike Related Accomplishment: Through leadership, efforts of outreach, education, and commuting by bike, this business has achieved Bronze Level bike friendly business status despite being located in a very auto.centric area of the country. They have participated, sponsored and provided leadership and volunteer support for the Tour de Nash, an annual urban area bicycle ride in Nashville, Tennessee meant to showcase area bikeways.  In 2009, this event featured approximately 700 participants. The business worked to implement the use of Tennessee's first shared bus/bike lanes as part of an overall traffic and parking project, which received an ACEC award for engineering excellence.

Benefits of Being a Bicycle Friendly Business: RPM provides transportation planning and engineering services.   The company’s philosophy to support and promote bicycling has enhanced their credibility and reputation for developing multi.modal transportation solutions for clients. RPM's achievement of bike friendly business status has enhanced employee morale and has increased staff's focus and awareness on non.motorized needs.  Regular commuting by RPM employees has resulted in improved health and morale as evidenced by low sick day use by employees.