COVID-19′s Pandemic Effects on Bike Sharing Systems: A New Reality for Urban Mobility?

Bouhouras, Efstathios; Basbas, Socrates; Ftergioti, Stamatia; Paschalidis, Evangelos; Siakantaris, Harris

doi:10.3390/app12031230

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“…In turn, France currently strongly focuses on the development of activities in the field of bicycle tourism and micro-mobility, hence the noticeable changes in bike-sharing systems. Moreover, trends indicate that the pandemic had a significant impact on the significant development of micro-mobility systems [96], which the conducted research reflects in the presented business models. In turn, Poland is a relatively new shared mobility market [97].…”

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Open Innovation Business Model as an Opportunity to Enhance the Development of Sustainable Shared Mobility Industry

Turoń

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The shared mobility services market is growing and changing very rapidly. Many novelties are introduced to the systems, ranging from improvements to the services already offered to services referred to as innovative. Since the following years are to bring significant development of mobility as a service (MaaS) systems, data sharing, and cooperation on the mobility market, the article is dedicated to check whether the current business models of the industry are ready for the open innovations implementations. The article aimed to analyze the business models of shared mobility systems along with their presentation in the form of CANVAS models and to investigate whether the models contain aspects of open innovation. Moreover, the article presents its own value-added open business model prepared for the whole shared mobility market. The paper also identifies a set of open innovations that can be implemented by all types of shared mobility operators. It proposed the basis that operators can use when developing their own open business models. The developed research is an original contribution to filling the research gap concerning the approach to open innovation by operators of all types of shared mobility services available on the market. The results show that car-sharing service providers are the biggest opponents of open innovation. On the other hand, the most ‘open’ systems are bike-sharing services. The conducted research may support operators in the process of transforming their businesses into more accessible for users. It also helps to develop the open innovation concept to create more sustainable shared mobility systems along the lines of collaborative economy assumptions.

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confidence: 81%

Open Innovation Business Model as an Opportunity to Enhance the Development of Sustainable Shared Mobility Industry

Turoń

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Research on the post-pandemic reality indicates the effect of the pandemic on modal choice. Bouhouras et al [61] showed that residents of urban areas were more willing to change the means of transport used for their journeys (to a bike sharing system) during the pandemic. Their study showed that after the pandemic ended, the role of these means of transport in the post-pandemic reality had strengthened compared to pre-pandemic observations.…”

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Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

Borowska-Stefańska,

Dulebenets,

Koneczny

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic and, in consequence, many countries took steps to prevent the importation and subsequent local transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, resulting in restrictions on economic activity, transport, travel, and daily mobility. Although the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on daily mobility have been widely addressed in the literature, there is a limited number of studies that indicate to what extent these changes have become permanent. The purpose of this study was to determine the nature and scale of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the local transport system of a large city in Poland (Łódź) and, above all, to identify the permanence of this impact. To accomplish these objectives, a questionnaire survey was conducted using the computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technique on a sample of 500 residents, which included questions on daily mobility in the period before (autumn 2019) and after (autumn 2022) the pandemic. In addition, the results of the questionnaire survey were juxtaposed with data from intelligent transport systems (ITS) (data from 20 induction loops, and data on the number of tickets validated in public transport vehicles). Not only did the pandemic change the frequency of spatial motivations, but it also affected trip durations and preferred modes of transport. The most unfavourable changes concern the modal division and the increase in the use of private transport at the expense of public transport. Understanding the durability of the impact of the pandemic on changes in the spatial mobility of the population may help to develop transport policies and increase the resilience of transport systems to possible future pandemics.

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“…BSS systems had become increasingly popular in many cities over the previous 20 years due to their beneficial effects on the users' health, the ability to combine them with other modes of public transport and their potential to reduce the use of motor vehicles and lower greenhouse gas emissions ( DeMaio, 2009 ). During lockdown, BSS services in Boston, Chicago and New York provided free access to health workers and other essential personnel to promote the use of bicycles as a means of transport during the pandemic ( Bouhouras et al, 2022 ), while some cities, such as Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans in the USA ( Miketa & Sun, 2020 ) and Santander, Spain, suspended their BSS service ( Aloi et al, 2020 ). Furthermore, in some cities, such as Bogotá, New York and Barcelona, bike lanes were extended, added to or made bike-friendly (or cyclable) streets.…”

Section: Bsss and The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who changed and who maintained their urban bike-sharing mobility after the COVID-19 outbreak? A within-subjects study

Seifert

Pellicer-Chenoll

Antón-González

et al. 2023

Cities

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COVID-19′s Pandemic Effects on Bike Sharing Systems: A New Reality for Urban Mobility?

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

Open Innovation Business Model as an Opportunity to Enhance the Development of Sustainable Shared Mobility Industry

Open Innovation Business Model as an Opportunity to Enhance the Development of Sustainable Shared Mobility Industry

Changes to the Transport Behaviour of Inhabitants of a Large City Due the Pandemic

Who changed and who maintained their urban bike-sharing mobility after the COVID-19 outbreak? A within-subjects study

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