Quantifying the comprehensive benefit of the bike-sharing system under cycling behavior differences

Zhi, Danyue; Sun, Huijun; Liu, Ying; Xu, Guangtong

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134660

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“…3-4). Promoting micromobility may furthermore revitalize and uplift marginalized communities [6, [47][48][49], an important goal for establishing Divvy from the outset. Two examples illustrate how Divvy has played a role in securing economic benefits for Chicagoans: In 2015, the Chicago Department of Transport implemented the equitybased program Divvy for Everyone (D4E) [7,50], which provided low-income Chicagoans with an annual membership for $5 [50,51].…”

Section: Benefits Associated With Micromobility and Their Manifestati...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While we have been able to confirm the accessibility, convenience, efficiency, and costeffectiveness across a variety of bicycle trips as long as we stayed within the time-limits and well-serviced regions, various research projects have studied the tangible benefits to Chicago residents, including reducing household expenditure, time savings, and additional revenue to local businesses [6, 7,47,49,[54][55][56].…”

Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Environmental benefits: Reducing private car dependency is perhaps the most wellestablished environmental benefit associated in the literature on micromobility, but others include how micromobility generally and BSSs specifically promote more efficient and sustainable mobility options [7,47,49,[57][58][59][60], how environmental pollution and road congestion are mitigated [7,49,[61][62][63][64], how greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and thus contribute to carbon neutrality [6,58,65-67], and how environmental consciousness is promoted [6, 49,64,68]. The potential for Divvy to contribute to environmental benefits is best illustrated by the scale of the development of bicycle-related infrastructure in Chicago.…”

Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Quality of life benefits: Transit-oriented micromobility improves the overall quality of life for residents because it introduces efficiency and mobility diversity into a city's mobility landscape [47,57,68]. On the one hand, it expands access by providing mobility options to those who do not have access to a car, and by reducing entry barriers for new and potential cyclists because they do not need to purchase, store, or maintain their own bicycles [6, 90,91].…”

Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, it expands access by providing mobility options to those who do not have access to a car, and by reducing entry barriers for new and potential cyclists because they do not need to purchase, store, or maintain their own bicycles [6, 90,91]. On the other hand, transit-oriented micromobility tends to complement other modes of public transit [47,48,92,93] because it provides fast and convenient firstand last-mile mobility solutions [47,94,95] and therewith significantly extends the footprint of fixed-route bus, metro, and rail services [6, 64,[94][95][96][97]. From the beginning, Divvy was strategically designed to complement and diversify the city's public transit network, while aiming to reduce congestion and expensive road extensions and parking infrastructure.…”

Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Tale of Two Divvys: The Bicycle Sharing System of Chicago

Bergman,

Allenspach,

Bergman

2024

Sustainability

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How did Chicago develop one of the largest and most successful Bicycle Sharing Systems in a very short time, what benefits does this system afford to the city and its residents, and what developments threaten this success? Urban areas benefit significantly and in a variety of ways from micromobility, which contributes to an urgently needed sustainability transformation. In this qualitative, exploratory case study, we examine the foundations of the success and types of benefits of the second largest bicycle sharing system in North America, the City of Chicago’s Divvy. We juxtapose our data, which consists of participant and non-participant observations, fieldwork, interviews, documents, and social media posts, with a typology gleaned from the academic literature on bicycle sharing systems to explore Divvy’s wide-ranging positive impact. This typology includes economic, environmental, health and safety, and quality of life benefits. In addition, we identify two further benefits from our data: modularity and zoetic capacity. Despite this impact, we show how the consequences of changes in the ownership structure since 2018 are threatening the success and benefits. The emerging service model is no longer based on the initial pillars of its success: the city’s policy and vision for Divvy, the funding and ownership structure, and the strategic deployment of bicycle stations to balance demand potential with locational equity. Based on our study, we conclude that it is unlikely that the new micromobility system, refocused on more profitable e-bike and e-scooter rentals in privileged neighborhoods, is viable in the long term because it is abandoning the core values that embedded Divvy into the fabric of the city. Worse, the emergent model may actually contribute to a systematic exclusion of poorer neighborhoods and less privileged residents of Chicago.

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Section: Benefits Associated With Micromobility and Their Manifestati...mentioning

confidence: 99%