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Title:

Invited Student Paper - Bikeshare System Accessibility: Opportunities for Tourism in Honolulu

Accession Number:

01764069

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Bikeshare systems continue to emerge in cities as communities continue to embrace mobility services offered through personal mobile ICT and the concept of resource sharing. However, their ability to meet travel demand relies on bikeshare systems offering an appropriate threshold of accessibility to activity opportunities and locations, both as origin and destinations. Depending on the travel market segment and the demanded activities, bikeshare systems may provide better accessibility relative to other segments. Increasingly, tourists focused on more affordable travel modes that are also ecofriendly are considering bikeshare and other shared mobility resource services for accessing these activities. In this study, the authors examine the alignment between Biki, a large-scale bikeshare network in Honolulu, and the activities of tourists. The results indicate that tourist or recreational site accessibility have the most to gain from improvements in Biki accessibility, based on tourist travel pattern decisions, relative to other traveler segments. Key differences between the accessibility of visitors and non-visitors suggest differences in the which activities are demanded, with tourists unsurprisingly showing more sensitivity to recreational activity locations. For example, based on observe activity locations, while non-visitors see improvements in accessibility to work, home locations and shopping as distance threshold improves for Biki, this is not the case for tourists, which only show marginal improvements with increased accessibility.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AEP35 Standing Committee on Effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Travel Choices.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-02813

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Tang, Micah
Chen, Roger Bing-Kwang

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Honolulu (Hawaii)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-02813

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:19AM