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Impact Evaluation of Bike-Sharing on Bicycling Accessibility

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  • Mingzhu Song

    (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China)

  • Kaiping Wang

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Yi Zhang

    (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • Meng Li

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)

  • He Qi

    (China Construction Science and Technology Group Cooperation, Shenzhen 518034, China)

  • Yi Zhang

    (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China)

Abstract

The presence of bike-sharing has a significant influence on the ease of trips by bike, which is one critical aspect of bicycling accessibility (BAcc). The existing measurements of BAcc rarely consider the factor of ownership of bikes, which means that no distinction is made between private-bikes and shared bikes. To measure BAcc more fully, this paper proposes a method to evaluate the influences of bike-sharing on BAcc and to perform the method on a real-world case study in Beijing. It is found that bike-sharing has a boosting effect on BAcc, and the increased rate of BAcc is significantly affected by bicycling frequency and shared-bike availability. A case study in Beijing utilizing geo-location data collected from two major bike-sharing companies (OFO and Mo-bike) illustrates the significance of the impact of bike-sharing on BAcc and the necessity to include bike-sharing in the measurement of BAcc. Besides, the case study shows BAcc around the transit station is better than that over the whole area. Given that bicycling feeds transit, this research lays the foundation for analyzing the combination of bike-sharing and transit from the perspective of accessibility and can further support transportation planning.

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  • Mingzhu Song & Kaiping Wang & Yi Zhang & Meng Li & He Qi & Yi Zhang, 2020. "Impact Evaluation of Bike-Sharing on Bicycling Accessibility," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-16, July.
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