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Over 1000 cities across the world have established bike share programs. Simultaneously a growing number of studies examined correlates of bike share use but few examined the behavior of bike share users. Additionally, research has shown that accessibility is correlated with positively station use. However, most research to date has been cross-sectional analysis and therefore inadequate to establish a causal relationship between accessibility and frequency of use. Using a five-year panel data set of members’ bike share trips from 2010 to 2015 in Twin Cities, the authors employ a quasi-experimental, difference-in-difference modeling approach to explore the causal relationship between accessibility and frequency of bike share use. Improvements in accessibility are measured as reduction in distance to stations resulting from new stations or relocation of old stations. The authors find a significant negative impact of distance on frequency of use. Specifically, the authors find that increasing bike share accessibility has a larger impact in areas with dense bike share services. Moreover, by incorporating built environment variables and interaction terms of built environment with distance, the authors demonstrate the heterogeneous effects of distance across different built environment contexts. Members who lived in areas with more bike facilities, higher population density, higher percentages of retail, recreational and industrial land uses tend to increase their bike share use more. In terms of bike station densification, installing stations close to members who lived in areas with higher office land uses also increased their bike share use more. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for policy and planning practice.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF20 Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation. Alternate title: Do New Bikeshare Stations Increase Member Use? A Quasi-Experimental Study

18-06030

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Accessibility; Bicycle facilities; Bicycle travel; Bicycles; Built environment; Membership organizations; Panel studies; Vehicle sharing

Bicycle sharing stations

Minneapolis (Minnesota); Saint Paul (Minnesota)

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06030

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:33AM