{"id":3274,"date":"2025-03-17T17:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:19:27","slug":"wsdot-e-bike-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/current-projects\/wsdot-e-bike-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"WSDOT E-bike Incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington state is preparing to launch WE-bike, an instant rebate program that helps Washington residents purchase certain cycling equipment and electric bicycles, also called e-bikes. In April 2025,<\/strong> people across the state will be able to apply online for one of these instant rebates. Researchers at the University of Washington and Portland State University are partnering to investigate how e-bike incentive programs can change people\u2019s travel choices and how those choices affect greenhouse gas emissions. The project includes researching incentive programs and investigating evaluation designs. The resulting evaluation will, at a minimum, include a survey of a sample of the e-bike incentive recipients approximately one month and six months after their purchase. The survey will also include applicants who applied for an incentive but didn\u2019t get one to better estimate the effects of the incentive on travel behavior, as well as those who were eligible for the incentive but did not apply to better understand barriers to participation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information for those interested in the rebate program and about participating in the UW study can be found on WSDOT’s E-bike Rebate Program FAQ<\/a> page. WSDOT also hosts a general information page about the E-bike Rebate Program<\/a>. The WSDOT contact for the rebate program is Adele Peers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator: Don MacKenzie<\/a>, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW
Research Sponsors:
WSDOT
PacTrans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WSDOT Technical Contact: Charlotte Claybrooke<\/a>
WSDOT Project Manager: Mustafa Mohamedali<\/a>
Scheduled completion: June 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington state is preparing to launch WE-bike, an instant rebate program that helps Washington residents purchase certain cycling equipment and electric bicycles, also called e-bikes. In April 2025, people across the state will be able to apply online for one of these instant rebates. Researchers at the University of Washington and Portland State University are partnering to investigate … Continue reading WSDOT E-bike Incentives<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-projects","category-multimodal-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}