a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Bicycle share Transportation justice Low-cost mobility Public bicycle systems This paper seeks to examine the degree to which a public bicycle system could meet the needs of people in Cape Town, South Africa, a middle-income city with significant resource constraints and transport justice considerations. The local authority in Cape Town has an explicit policy to ...

Abstract In this article we use a natural experiment to assess the effects of public transport disruption on bicycle sharing system ridership. We exploit maintenance work major tram line in Budapest. Fixed panel regressions are applied difference-in-difference setting. Our results show that usage significantly increased weekdays during disruption, however, effect is not substantial relative bas...

Bicycle sharing systems are increasingly popular around the world and have the potential to increase the visibility of people cycling in everyday clothing. This may in turn help normalise the image of cycling, and reduce perceptions that cycling is 'risky' or 'only for sporty people'. This paper sought to compare the use of specialist cycling clothing between users of the London bicycle sharing...

Bicycle sharing systems exist in hundreds of cities around the world, with the aim of providing a form of public transport with the associated health and environmental benefits of cycling without the burden of private ownership and maintenance. Five cities have provided research data on the journeys (start and end time and location) taking place in their bicycle sharing system. In this paper, w...

In China, Hangzhou is the first city to establish the Public Bicycle System. Now, the system has been the largest bikesharing program in the world. The software of Hangzhou Public Bicycle System was developed by our team. There are many and many technology problems in the decision of intelligent dispatch. Among of these problems, determining how to segment the stations into several sections to ...

Over 400 cities around the world have deployed or have plans to deploy a bike sharing system. However, the factors that drive their usage and the amount of rebalancing they require are not known precisely. A knowledge of these factors would allow cities to design or modify their systems to increase usage while lowering rebalancing costs. We collect station-level occupancy data from two cities a...