Implementing bikesharing systems in small cities: Evidence from the Swiss experience

Audikana, Ander; Ravalet, Emmanuel; Baranger, Virginie; Kaufmann, Vincent

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.01.005

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“…The basic premise of bike-sharing programs is sustainable transportation. Objectives associated with bike-sharing programs include increased cycle usage and mobility options, an improved first/last mile connection to other travel modes, reduced transport congestion and energy consumption, reduced environmental impacts, and improved public health [21][22][23][24]. However, controversies regarding the implementation process, such as the waste of resources as well as bicycle maintenance and management [25], have emerged.…”

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Bike Sharing and the Economy, the Environment, and Health-Related Externalities

Qiu

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:In recent years, bike-sharing has experienced rapid development; however, controversies about the externalities of bike-sharing programs have arisen as well. While bike-sharing programs have impacts on traffic, the environment, and public health, the social impacts, the management, and sustainable development of bike-sharing has also been of interest. The debate regards whether there are externalities, as well as whether and how such externalities can be determined. Based on the rapidly diffused bike-sharing in China, this paper quantitatively explores bike-sharing externalities. Specifically, this paper estimates the impacts of bike-sharing on the economy, energy use, the environment, and public health. The empirical results show that bike-sharing programs have significant positive externalities. The bike-sharing systems can provide urban residents with a convenient and time-saving travel mode. We find that the bike-sharing dramatically decreases traffic, reduces energy consumption, decreasing harmful gas emissions, improves public health generally, and promotes economic growth. This study contributes to a better comprehension of the externalities of bike-sharing and provides empirical evidence of the impacts of bike-sharing. Findings suggest that bike-sharing can play a critical role in the process of urban transportation development and provide information useful for urban transportation policies.

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Bike Sharing and the Economy, the Environment, and Health-Related Externalities

Qiu

2018

Sustainability

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“…To better understand their use, a number of researchers examined the geographies of bike-sharing systems in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia and North America [11,[21][22][23][24][25]. Subsequently, Faghih-Imani and Eluru found that users' destination preferences significantly affected cycling choices [26].…”

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Rethinking the Utility of Public Bicycles: The Development and Challenges of Station-Less Bike Sharing in China

2019

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Cycling is known to be environmentally friendly and beneficial to public health and sustainable urban development. Cycling has recently increased in Chinese cities as a result of the emergence of station-less bike-sharing systems. This study examines the emergence, rapid growth and consolidation of station-less bike-sharing systems and the role of suppliers, users and government regulators. It shows that these systems developed unevenly, growing most in large cities in eastern and south-eastern China, and explores the relationship between this spatial distribution and the nature of the service and the socio-economic characteristics of cities. To investigate patterns of, and reasons for, the use of these systems, this research also reports the results of a survey of users and non-users, identifying their gender, age, income characteristics and attitudes to station-less systems.

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“…According to research by different scholars, the bike-sharing system has potentials due to the following reasons: (a) reducing traffic congestion and fuel use [8]; (b) behavioral shifts towards increased bicycle use for daily mobility [9]; (c) a growing perception of the bicycle as a convenient transportation mode [1].…”

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“…The existing literature on bike-sharing systems is mainly focused on the traditional bike-sharing system with docking stations including development policies and safety issues [10][11][12], operation scales and the operator [8,13], and benefit on the environment [14][15][16][17][18]. In order to improve the user experience for bicycle use and reduce the operating costs, many researchers study rebalancing operations.…”

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“…Constraint (6) and constraint (7) ensure that the path of each vehicle is successive. Constraint (8) ensures that every node is serviced by only one vehicle, whereas constraint (9) ensures that the vehicle capacity is not exceeded. In order to model the entire process of FBSR, the formulation can easily accommodate fixed costs by modification of the objective function as follows:…”

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Innovative Bike-Sharing in China: Solving Faulty Bike-Sharing Recycling Problem

Chang

Song

et al. 2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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In China, based on the mobile Internet technology and global positioning system (GPS), innovative bike-sharing is different from traditional bike-sharing system with docking station, for its flexibility and convenience. However, innovative bike-sharing system faces operational challenges, especially in faulty bike-sharing recycling (FBSR) problem. In this paper, a framework is designed based on the optimization method to solve the FBSR problem so that it can minimize the total recycling costs by taking the route optimization and loading capacity ratio as constraints. The FBSR method combines the K-means method for clustering faulty bikesharing with planning recycling route for operational decisions. Moreover, CPLEX solver is used to obtain the desired result of the FBSR model. Finally, a case study based on a certain area in Beijing, China, is used to verify the validity and applicability of the model. The results show that the value of loading capacity ratio and the number of clustering points greatly affect the results of FBSR problem. Four vehicles are designated to execute FBSR tasks required by different clustering points. This study is of considerable significance for the bike-sharing promotion in the last-mile situation to the real problems arising in the initial period.

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Implementing bikesharing systems in small cities: Evidence from the Swiss experience

Cited by 56 publications

References 18 publications

Bike Sharing and the Economy, the Environment, and Health-Related Externalities

Bike Sharing and the Economy, the Environment, and Health-Related Externalities

Rethinking the Utility of Public Bicycles: The Development and Challenges of Station-Less Bike Sharing in China

Innovative Bike-Sharing in China: Solving Faulty Bike-Sharing Recycling Problem

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