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Many studies about Bike Sharing Systems (BSS) show the good performance of these schemes when bicycles are highly used on a daily basis. Most of them analyse large cities such as Washington D.C., Melbourne, London, Barcelona or Dublin, which have more than 500,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, studies on BSS in small cities with a population between 20,000 and 100,000 inhabitants are still undeveloped. This paper is focused on BSSs in small cities with the aim of shedding light on how to improve BSS performance in small cities based on current experiences. More precisely, the paper analyses how the BSSs of two Irish cities, Limerick and Galway, have worked during the first two years of implementation (2015-2016). It is focused on the effectiveness of the stations using the Turnover Station ratio, which measures the usage degree of each station. This analysis will allow the identification of the stations working correctly, which stations need a deep study to improve its resources (bikes and docks) and if some station should be removed. Moreover, these findings will result in increasing knowledge about the implementation and development of small scale BSSs. For example, some of the main results point out that to assess the success of these schemes in small cities, the daily basis for analysing the usage should be changed to a monthly basis, in order to consider an overview of the systems, and the differences between annual trips and temporary trips also affect the classification of stations according to the turnover ratio.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation. Alternate title: Effectiveness of Small-Scale Bikesharing Systems According to the Analysis of Turnover Station Ratios

18-00480

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Bicycles; Performance measurement; Plan implementation; Small cities; Vehicle sharing

Bicycle sharing stations

Galway (Ireland); Limerick (Ireland)

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-00480

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:08AM