About Us | Our Key Staff

Mark Chase (Principal)
mark.e.chase@gmail.com
Mark Chase has over ten years of Transportation planning experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. His employment and consulting background includes work in transportation demand management initiatives including car-sharing programs, bicycle facilities planning, shuttle systems operations and parking management. Mark is a social entrepreneur who has been
involved with the launch of several for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He was part of the senior
management team that launched the innovative car-sharing program Zipcar.com. Mark is actively
involved with car-parking reform as key component of sustainable transportation systems. Currently Mark is the Transportation Program Planner for GoLoco.org, an innovative web-based car-pooling tool. Mark undertakes contract consulting work for Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates in New York City.

Steven E. Miller (Principal)
CBS-sm@comcast.net
Steven E. Miller founded Boston’s Hub On Wheels Bike Festival, co-chairs the Cambridge Bicycle Committee, and is a founding director of the LivableStreets Alliance. He also serves as Executive Director of the New England Healthy Weight Initiative, a project of the Harvard School of Public Health. At Lotus Development Corporation he directed the creation of the first Lotus 1-2-3 Reference Manual, was Editor-in-chief of LOTUS Magazine, and a co-founder of the Lotus Philanthropy program. He later served as Director of Strategic Planning for the Commonwealth’s Office of Management Information Systems, and was a site evaluator for the Ford Foundation/Harvard Kennedy School Innovations in American Government Program. Miller has served on the national boards of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), the Consortium for School Networks (CoSN), and as chair of Grassroots International (GRI). His media work includes articles in national magazines, serving as a TV and radio commentator, multi-media curriculumdevelopment, and four books on social policy issues.

Andrew Prescott (Principal)
aprescott2000@yahoo.com
Andrew Prescott founded Urban AdvenTours - Boston Bicycle Tours and Rentals - in 2004, based on the belief that the more bicycles we see on the road, the safer we’ll all be. Urban Adventours has engaged thousands of folks to enjoy cycling in Boston through their individual and group tours and collaboration in events with the City of Boston's Hub on Wheels, Bikes not Bombs, Mass Bike, and Livable Streets Alliance, Andrew has started several educational programs, including a ‘Bike and Body Maintenance" class through Boston's Citizen Schools.

As a bike commuter himself, Andrew understands how people use their bicycles in everyday life. Andrew His travels abroad and his residency in Copenhagen furthered his belief that the social and physical infrastructure, along with individuals lifestyle, must change in order to get more people out on bikes. Urban Adventours vegetable-oil powered step-van is an important asset to Central Bike Services field operations.

Larry Slotnick (Principal)
ljslotnick@yahoo.com
Larry Slotnick has helped create lasting institutions and innovations in socially-responsible small business and urban transportation over the past ten years. In 2006 he co-founded Taza Chocolate - a manufacturer of organic dark chocolate - based in Somerville, MA. Prior to that, he was National Director of Fleet Operations for Zipcar - the nation's leading car-sharing company - where he was a founding employee in 2000.

Larry has extensive experience in bicycle advocacy and planning. He served between 1997 and 2002 on the Board of Directors for MassBike during its transition from a local to state-wide bicycle advocacy organization. For one year (1999) he also served as MassBike's Executive Director, where he initiated it's major annual fundraising event, a State-wide bike tour, and its public-event bicycle valet parking program.

In 2005, Larry co-founded the LivableStreets Alliance in Cambridge, MA, which is dedicated to transforming Boston's urban transportation landscape to one that exhibits a better balance of walking, biking and mass transit with automobile use. He formed Central Bike Services in 2007 with LivableStreets and Zipcar colleague Mark Chase in order to provide institutions professional management of their bicycling programs.

Our Philosophy

• Bicycle parking should be at least as efficiently managed as car-parking. We strive to make bike parking run like a finely tuned engine. The best transportation systems are invisible for the user because they just work well. Our services are easy to use for both the facilities manager and the bicycle rider.
• We want to maximize your resources. First, the timely removal of abandoned bicycles gives you more capacity for active bicycle parking. Your bike parking looks better and you need less of it to serve the same number of active bicyclists. Second, we can retrofit your existing parking racks to increase capacity, and be more functional and secure for the bicyclist. By improving the functionality and security of existing rack capacity you realize cost savings through avoided disposal costs and avoided costs of the purchase and installation of new racks.
• Registration is an under-utilized resource for bicycle parking management. Registration and proof of ownership are critical for assisting bicyclists to recover stolen bikes and deal with lost bike-lock key situations. Furthermore, registration can be used to encourage two-way communication around a variety of good bicycling practices.
• We expect bike parking to integrate beautifully into the built environment around a location. Bicycle parking should not be an ugly afterthought, but should fit in to the visual appeal of a building such that it is visible, but not unsightly.