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Developing countries are facing increasing challenges to make urban mobility sustainable and more specifically to tackle the continuously growing air pollution and congestion caused by rapid increase in car ownership. As part of a broad strategy to achieve sustainable urban mobility, bike-sharing service can help reduce car use, especially in city centers. There is currently a lack of knowledge in developing countries about the factors affecting bike-sharing choice, hindering policy making to effectively improve bike-sharing services. This research investigates the factors affecting bike-sharing choice in China and brings in air pollution impact in mode choice behavior studies. A multinomial logit model and two mixed multinomial logit models are developed to analyze mode choice behavior based on the stated preference data collected in the case study city, Taiyuan, which currently operates the most demanded bike-sharing scheme in China. The results confirm the significant impact of air pollution on mode choice behavior and include other findings such as the negative willingness to pay for transport services. A number of bike-sharing policy pathways are simulated to estimate the modal splits. It is revealed that air quality improvement on its own has limited effect in promoting bike-sharing usage and the policy measures focusing only on bike-sharing attributes (e.g. price and walking distance reduction) can hardly take private cars off the road; instead a great number of bus users will be attracted to an improved bike-sharing service.

When this paper is published in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR) the DOI will be 10.3141/2634-07. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries.

01618707

17-01089

English

18p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Air pollution; Bicycling; Developing countries; Modal split; Mode choice; Multinomial logits; Simulation; Stated preferences; Vehicle sharing

Taiyuan (China)

Environment; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Policy

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01089

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:18AM