Bicycle sharing system ‘success’ determinants
By C. Chardon, Geoffrey Caruso, Isabelle Thomas. 2017
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Many municipalities assert bicycle sharing systems (BSS) as having many benefits, justifying their adoption, yet few explicitly state the purpose of their system making comparison or determination of success impossible. In addition, the apprehension of many BSS operators to share data further hinders comparison. This paper estimates the number of daily trips from publicly available data for 75 BSS case studies across the world and provides trips per bike per day scores as a comparison of performance and success. Results reveal that a third of case studies have fewer than the psychologically important one trip per bicycle per day. To ascertain what factors are associated with this metric we estimate models with independent variables related to system attributes, station density, weather, geography and transportation infrastructure. Our analysis provides strong evidence undermining the ‘network effect’ promoted by influential BSS policy makers that expanding system size increases performance. Finally our results describe and discuss causal variables associated with higher BSS performance.
Subfields: Transportation
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- Providing quantified evidence to policy makers for promoting bike-sharing in heavily air-polluted cities: A mode choice model and policy simulation for Taiyuan-China (2018, background): “…and convenience (Akar and Clifton, 2009; Larsen and El-Geneidy, 2011; Hankey et al., 2012; Daito and Chen, 2013; Kamargianni and Polydoropoulou, 2013; Deenihan and Caulfield, 2015; Kamargianni, 2015; Maness et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2015; Mateo-Babiano et al., 2016; De Chardon et al., 2017).”
- Understanding the Recent Transit Ridership Decline in Major US Cities: Service Cuts or Emerging Modes? (2019, background): “9 10 Bike sharing is new in many cities over this period, while bicycling broadly is experiencing a 11 “renaissance” with expanded bike lanes in many cities and increased use (22, 23).”