2014 · 103 citations · 0 references
Public HealthTransportation PlanningUrban PlanningTransportTransportationTransportation PolicyBicycle TransportationPublic Transportation UseSustainable TransportationTransportation EconomicsTravel BehaviorTravel DemandBusiness Operating ModelsCycling BehaviorRidesharing BehaviorScaling Business Models
This study evaluates public bikesharing in North America, examining how members’ travel behavior changes across different programs within the context of their business models and operational environments. The authors conducted 23 interviews with IT‑based bikesharing organizations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, administered online member and on‑street user surveys, and analyzed rebalancing operations using the Hubway system in Boston. Results indicate that bikesharing induces diverse modal shifts, decreasing bus use in four of five cities and substantially reducing driving across all surveyed cities.
This study evaluates public bikesharing in North America, reviewing the change in travel behavior exhibited by members of different programs in the context of their business models and operational environment. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with IT-based bikesharing organizations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2013. The authors also conducted two kinds of surveys with bikesharing users, an online member survey and an on-street survey. Results show that bikesharing is causing a diverse array of modal shifts within the different cities surveyed. Bikesharing was found to reduce the number of respondents using the bus in four of the five cities. The survey also found that bikesharing reduced respondents driving by large margins in all cities. The appendix examines bikesharing rebalancing through an analysis of the Hubway bikesharing system in Boston