Toward sustainable travel: An analysis of campus bikeshare use

Aliari, Sanaz; Nasri, Arefeh; Nejad, Mohammad Motalleb; Haghani, Ali

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2020.100162

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“…Bike-sharing trips relating to educational facilities have been verified in previous studies (Aliari et al, 2020; Jiageng et al, 2022). Trips with the purpose of education account for 7.5% of all bike trips, while only accounting for 0.7% of all e-bike trips.…”

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Inferring and comparing trip purposes of shared micromobility services: A case study of Ningbo, China

Wang

Zhang

2023

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

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Over the past decades, shared micromobility services (SMSs) have experienced ever-fast growth around the world. Such increment has raised issues such as how to improve the efficiency of the service operation and regulation. To address these issues, it is essential to understand how and why these SMSs are used. This research aims to infer trip purposes of two types of dockless SMSs, i.e., dockless shared bikes and e-bikes, and make a comparison between them, mainly using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)-based analytical framework. The proposed framework was applied in Ningbo, China by combining a large-scale bike-sharing trip dataset and a Points of Interest (POIs) dataset. In our case study, we successfully revealed seven typical trip purposes, i.e., transport, work, lodging, eating, shopping, education, and others. The results showed that eating is the most prevalent trip purpose for both bike and e-bike users. Surprisingly, the proportions of transport-related trips were insignificant compared to previous observations, for both shared bikes and e-bikes. Moreover, the shared bike played a more significant role than the shared e-bike in daily trips related to lodging and education, indicating that the role of the shared e-bike in these trips might have been overestimated previously. This study provides insight into the trip purposes of SMSs and gives targeted planning and operation suggestions, which can promote sustainable development of the urban micromobility systems.

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confidence: 68%

Inferring and comparing trip purposes of shared micromobility services: A case study of Ningbo, China

Wang

Zhang

2023

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

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“…Research on students' travel patterns shows that instead of them being concentrated around a few peak hours of traffic, students and faculty mobility patterns are spread largely according to weekday class schedules and are inter-dependent on complementary transit routes, proximity to transit hubs, environmental conditions, and personal barriers [31,32]. Students living on campus have less distance to travel and traditionally have relied on walking, biking, skateboarding, or campus shuttles to access different parts of the campus.…”

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Are New Campus Mobility Trends Causing Health Concerns?

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Khandelwal,

Kassens-Noor

et al. 2024

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An influx of new mobility trends such as fare-free bus transportation, ride hail, and e-scooter services to improve access and affordability of transportation on campus may be shifting the travel behavior of campus patrons such that it affects their long-term health outcomes. The main research questions explored in this study are as follows: (1) why university patrons choose new modes of travel?; (2) what existing mode did the new modes of travel replace for the riders?; and (3) is the average body mass index (BMI) of users primarily using non-motorized transit options lower than those using motorized or both (referred to as hybrid) for on-campus travel needs? An online survey was administered to a campus community (n = 3309) including students (48%), faculty (15%), and staff (37%) in fall of 2018 when fare-free bus transportation and e-scooters became available on campus, and a gradual increase in ridership of ride-hail services was simultaneously observed. This study found that campus patrons were more inclined to replace active modes of travel with affordable and accessible modes of transportation, thereby substituting their walking or biking routine with app-based transportation services. The mean BMI among travelers who chose motorized transportation modes was more than active travelers, and the BMI was statistically significantly associated with age, gender, race, class standing (undergraduate/graduate), and residence on/off campus. This study concludes with suggestions to prevent substitution of active with non-active transport choices and provides policy guidelines to increase awareness on achieving physical activity levels through active modes of travel for university patrons.

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Toward sustainable travel: An analysis of campus bikeshare use

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Inferring and comparing trip purposes of shared micromobility services: A case study of Ningbo, China

Inferring and comparing trip purposes of shared micromobility services: A case study of Ningbo, China

Are New Campus Mobility Trends Causing Health Concerns?

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