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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,944 Views
14 Pages

30 June 2020

The rise of bicycle-sharing stimulated companies’ investment in a large number of bicycles in the market. However, it is important to balance the massive placement of bicycles in the market and the company’s sustainable development. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,483 Views
16 Pages

The Sustainable Existence of China’s Bicycle-Sharing Market: To Oversupply or to Disappear

  • Xi Chen,
  • Qixing Qu,
  • Ming-Hsiang Chen,
  • Shaofen Fang and
  • Yi Cheng

15 November 2018

Most cities in China benefit from having a commercial and public bicycle-sharing system. However, the bicycle-sharing markets still face unbalanced development problems, i.e., initial rapid expansion in most areas, and a recent disappearance in some...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,858 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2023

Bicycle-sharing is experiencing rapidly as a low-carbon transport mode of travel, with the advantages of low cost and sustainability. Bicycle-sharing operators use electronic fence parking points to manage bicycle-sharing, but it is too time-consumin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,273 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2020

In recent decades, the availability of diverse location-based service (LBS) data has largely stimulated the research in individual human mobility. However, less attention has been paid on the intra-city movement of cyclists coupled with their spatiot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,492 Views
23 Pages

As a form of rapid mass transportation, urban rail systems have always been widely used to alleviate urban traffic congestion and reconstruct urban structures. Land use characteristics are indispensable to this system and correlate with urban ridersh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,787 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2020

Dockless bicycle-sharing is one of the novel transportation modes that emerged in recent years. As a component of the public transit system, it plays an important part in connecting the urban metro system but also generates some problems. With the lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,070 Views
15 Pages

A VNS-Based Matheuristic to Solve the Districting Problem in Bicycle-Sharing Systems

  • Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero,
  • Aníbal Álvarez,
  • Joaquín Vásquez,
  • Pablo A. Maya Duque and
  • Lucas Villavicencio

8 November 2022

A matheuristic approach that combines a reduced variable neighbourhood search (rVNS) algorithm and a mathematical programming (MP) solver to solve a novel model for the districting problem in a public bicycle-sharing system is presented. The problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,382 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2022

The electric bicycle-sharing system (EBSS) is the fourth-generation urban shared bicycle travel system, which effectively improves the travel efficiency of urban residents and solve the problem of urban congestion. This study attempts to use an exten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,437 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2024

In recent years, the widespread introduction of bike-sharing systems in China has had a profound impact on the daily lives of Chinese citizens and the development of the urban transport system. This article attempts to analyse the impact of this phen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,081 Views
19 Pages

30 November 2024

The emergence of dockless bicycle sharing has transformed urban transportation, particularly in China, by offering a flexible and accessible travel option. However, understanding the factors driving its adoption and usage in disadvantaged neighborhoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
12,669 Views
12 Pages

19 June 2017

As it is widely accepted, cycling tends to produce health benefits and reduce air pollution. Policymakers encourage people to use bikes by improving cycling facilities as well as developing bicycle-sharing systems (BSS). It is increasingly interestin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,856 Views
13 Pages

3 March 2019

As an eco-friendly transportation mode, shared bicycles provide a new option for public transit users in urban areas. China’s bicycle-sharing market began flourishing in July 2016 and reached a plateau in 2017. How shared bicycles influenced pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,450 Views
14 Pages

The main objective of this study is to explore the spatiotemporal activities pattern of bicycle sharing system by combining together temporal and spatial attributes variables through clustering analysis method. Specifically, three clustering algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,893 Views
20 Pages

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

  • Zinette Bergman,
  • Nicolas Allenspach and
  • Manfred Max Bergman

5 March 2024

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 signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,647 Views
15 Pages

10 December 2016

Redistribution is an important part of operational activities in a bicycle sharing system (BSS). This paper proposes that there are two types of users in a BSS: leisure travelers and commuters. The operators and the government are adopting the bidire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,216 Views
25 Pages

14 March 2019

As an icon of sharing economy and product service systems, bicycle sharing is gaining an increasing global popularity, yet there is little knowledge about the environmental performance of this emerging traveling mode. To seek the answer to the questi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,208 Views
27 Pages

30 January 2019

A highly debatable issue is whether or not a paradigm shift toward the sharing economy could help to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of our time. This article contributes to the academic discussion by exploring the types of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,675 Views
14 Pages

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering of Bicycle Sharing Stations Based on Ultra-Light Edge Computing

  • Juan José Vinagre Díaz,
  • Rubén Fernández Pozo,
  • Ana Belén Rodríguez González,
  • Mark R. Wilby and
  • Carmen Sánchez Ávila

23 June 2020

Bicycle sharing systems (BSSs) have established a new shared-economy mobility model. After a rapid growth they are evolving into a fully-functional mobile sensor platform for cities. The viability of BSSs is floored by their operational costs, mainly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,959 Views
14 Pages

Bike-Sharing Systems in Poland

  • Tomasz Bieliński,
  • Agnieszka Kwapisz and
  • Agnieszka Ważna

26 April 2019

Bike-sharing is widely recognized as an eco-friendly mode of transportation and seen as one of the solutions to the problem of air pollution and congestion. As there is little research exploring the performance of bicycle-sharing systems (BSS), many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,353 Views
27 Pages

Characterizing Situations of Dock Overload in Bicycle Sharing Stations

  • Luca Cagliero,
  • Tania Cerquitelli,
  • Silvia Chiusano,
  • Paolo Garza,
  • Giuseppe Ricupero and
  • Elena Baralis

6 December 2018

Bicycle sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular in cities around the world as they are an inexpensive and sustainable means of transportation. Promoting the use of these systems substantially improves the quality of life in cities by reduci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,378 Views
16 Pages

Cycling is a green, sustainable, and healthy choice for transportation that has been widely advocated worldwide in recent years. It can also encourage the use of public transit by solving the “last-mile” issue, because transit passengers...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,723 Views
17 Pages

Designing or expanding a bicycle-sharing system (BSS) involves addressing the infrastructure’s location of the bicycle stations. Station location is an essential factor for designing and implementing a new system or for its operation. In a complex sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,888 Views
13 Pages

Recently, an increasing number of cities have deployed bicycle-sharing systems to solve the first/last mile connection problem, generating a large quantity of data. In this paper, singular value decomposition (SVD) was used to extract the main featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,496 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2019

To better understand the characteristics of a bike-sharing system, we applied complex network methods to analyze the relationship between stations within the bike-sharing system. Firstly, using Gephi software, we constructed the public bicycle networ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,051 Views
24 Pages

The Shared Bicycle and Its Network—Internet of Shared Bicycle (IoSB): A Review and Survey

  • Shu Shen,
  • Zhao-Qing Wei,
  • Li-Juan Sun,
  • Yang-Qing Su,
  • Ru-Chuan Wang and
  • Han-Ming Jiang

7 August 2018

With the expansion of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in smart cities, the shared bicycle has developed quickly as a new green public transportation mode, and is changing the travel habits of citizens heavily across the world, especially in China...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,901 Views
21 Pages

Maintaining a balance between revenue and expenditure is the key to the sustainable development of a bicycle sharing system (BSS), and is a challenge for almost all systems worldwide. This article proposes a dynamic programming approach to obtain the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,844 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Dynamic Dispatching Method for Bicycle-Sharing System

  • Dianhui Mao,
  • Zhihao Hao,
  • Yalei Wang and
  • Shuting Fu

With the rapid development of sharing bicycles, unreasonable dispatching methods are likely to cause a series of issues, such as resource waste and traffic congestion in the city. In this paper, a new dynamic scheduling method is proposed, named Tri-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,630 Views
16 Pages

Impact Evaluation of Bike-Sharing on Bicycling Accessibility

  • Mingzhu Song,
  • Kaiping Wang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Meng Li,
  • He Qi and
  • Yi Zhang

30 July 2020

The presence of bike-sharing has a significant influence on the ease of trips by bike, which is one critical aspect of bicycling accessibility (BAcc). The existing measurements of BAcc rarely consider the factor of ownership of bikes, which means tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,865 Views
16 Pages

Data-Driven Analysis of Bicycle Sharing Systems as Public Transport Systems Based on a Trip Index Classification

  • Mark Richard Wilby,
  • Juan José Vinagre Díaz,
  • Rubén Fernández Pozo,
  • Ana Belén Rodríguez González,
  • José Manuel Vassallo and
  • Carmen Sánchez Ávila

2 August 2020

Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSSs) are exponentially increasing in the urban mobility sector. They are traditionally conceived as a last-mile complement to the public transport system. In this paper, we demonstrate that BSSs can be seen as a public trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,189 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Free-Floating Shared Bicycles on Urban Public Transportation

  • Min Cao,
  • Shangjing Ma,
  • Mengxue Huang,
  • Guonian Lü and
  • Min Chen

As a product of the development of the Internet and the sharing economy, shared bicycles are beneficial in solving the last mile problem of public transportation for urban residents and expanding the service area of urban public transportation to a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,613 Views
19 Pages

Determining the spatiotemporal deployment strategy for dockless shared bicycles in urban blocks has always been a focal point for city managers and planners. Extensive research has delved into the usage patterns in terms of time and space, deduced tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,182 Views
19 Pages

2 November 2022

Understanding the factors that affect the uptake of emerging transport modes is critical for understanding if and how they will be used once they are implemented. In this study, we undertook a stated-preference analysis to understand the factors that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,401 Views
13 Pages

8 April 2021

In China, shared electric bicycles are developing rapidly, and are widely used by residents. Understanding the factors that affect residents’ intention to use shared electric bicycles is important for implementing a policy of developing sustainable t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,490 Views
16 Pages

Predicting Public Bicycle Adoption Using the Technology Acceptance Model

  • Benjamin T. Hazen,
  • Robert E. Overstreet and
  • Yacan Wang

30 October 2015

Bicycle sharing programs provide a sustainable mode of urban transportation. Although cities across the globe have developed these systems for their citizens and visitors, usage rates are not as high as anticipated. This research uses the technology...

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  • Open Access
828 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2025

With accelerated urbanization and the pursuit of the “dual carbon” goals, shared bicycles have re-emerged as a green travel option. This study focuses on the central urban area of Nanjing and develops a carbon emissions reduction (CER) es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,234 Views
13 Pages

14 May 2019

Bicycle sharing services have played an active role in building a green travel system in China, but this trend has also caused problems, such as users arbitrarily stopping on the roads or the destruction of shared bicycles. Based on data collected by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,288 Views
26 Pages

3 January 2021

One way cities are looking to promote bicycling is by providing publicly or privately operated bike-share services, which enable individuals to rent bicycles for one-way trips. Although many studies have examined the use of bike-share services, littl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,781 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2021

The transport sector has produced numerous carbon emissions in China, and it is important to promote low carbon commuting. As an emerging mode of urban low-carbon transportation in China, shared bicycles have been used by more and more citizens on a...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,448 Views
15 Pages

20 September 2023

Decades ago, bicycles used to play an important role in urban transportation in Chinese cities, but they have been gradually replaced by private cars, metro, buses, and some other modes, owning to the fast-growing mobility demand as a result of urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,823 Views
15 Pages

11 October 2024

With the rise of the sharing economy, shared bicycles have become an important component of urban transportation. This paper explores the nonlinear dual oligopoly system for the Cournot model in the bike-sharing market; both operators have maximized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,161 Views
19 Pages

Nonlinear Influence of Urban Environment on Dockless Shared Bicycle Travel Patterns

  • Yonggang Shen,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Yancun Song,
  • Chengquan Wang and
  • Zhenwei Yu

16 May 2025

In response to the lack of ability to handle multidimensional data in current research methods for shared bicycle travel patterns, and the fact that correlation analysis is only conducted on a single feature, this study investigates the travel patter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,254 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2021

Shared bicycle users with commuting purposes generally need to take a traditional public transit and then use the shared bicycle to complete the first/last mile transport. While shared bicycle provides convenient travel for travelers, it also brings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,409 Views
16 Pages

11 September 2023

As a green and sustainable trip mode, shared bicycles play an essential role in completing short-distance trips in cities. This paper proposes a method to analyze the impact of the urban built environment on the distribution of shared bicycles in a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,491 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2023

Shared bicycles provide a green, environmentally friendly, and healthy mode of transportation that effectively addresses the “final mile” problem in urban travel. However, the uneven distribution of bicycles and the imbalance of user dema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,957 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2019

The rise and rapid development of bicycle sharing brings great convenience to residents’ travel and transfer, and also has a profound impact on the travel structure of cities. As college students make up a major share of shared bicycle users, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,105 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2019

With the maturity of mobile payments and internet technology, a new type of travel mode, shared bicycles, was brought out by China’s urban transport under the impetus of “the last mile” travel demand. Although convenient travel has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,890 Views
16 Pages

30 April 2019

The aim of this study is to explore to what extent a vehicle-sharing system (VSS) that includes electric bicycles and cars, connected to a block of apartments in a middle-sized city in Sweden, can cater for individuals’ everyday mobility needs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,027 Views
7 Pages

Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci Recovered from Public Shared Bicycles in China

  • Zhen Xu,
  • Liqin Chen,
  • Xiaowei Chen,
  • Amei Tang,
  • Dengmin Huang,
  • Qin Pan and
  • Zhongze Fang

Millions of public shared bicycles (PSBs) have been launched in China, and PSBs are a potential reservoir of antimicrobial-resistant staphylococci. However, no national data to elucidate the dissemination, antimicrobial resistance and genotypes of st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,508 Views
21 Pages

In the face of practical problems such as the increasing demand for shared bicycles and the number of faulty vehicles which are hard to handle and repair in time, shared bicycles operators tend to outsource recycling services to suppliers. To solve t...

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