Efficiency and equality of the multimodal travel between public transit and bike-sharing accounting for multiscale

Authors

Zhihang Liu
Chenyu Fang
Hao Li
Jinlin Wu
Lin Zhou
Martin Werner

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2024

Subject Area

place - asia, place - urban, mode - bike, mode - subway/metro, technology - passenger information, policy - equity, policy - sustainable, planning - methods

Keywords

Public transit, bike-sharing, sustainability

Abstract

As a supplement to the existing public transit system, bike-sharing is considered an effective solution to the “first mile” and “last mile” of travel. While many stakeholders believe that multimodal travel between public transit and bike-sharing can improve urban accessibility and sustainability, few studies have assessed the impact of bike-sharing on existing public transportation systems in terms of efficiency and equality. This research uses three months of mobile phone location data and about 140 million bike-sharing trips (origin–destination, OD) data from Shenzhen, China, to analyze first mile and last mile bike-sharing multimodal travel and measure the impact of bike-sharing on the existing public transportation system in terms of efficiency and equality at different scales. The research finds that bike-sharing is less effective in improving the operational efficiency of urban public transport and creates new inequalities at both global and local scales of the urban public transport system. Bike-sharing is only effective in tiny areas of the city and specific modes (subway-bike-sharing) and does not benefit groups with low socioeconomic levels and those living in edge areas of the city. Improving the equity and accessibility of public transportation is a key factor towards promoting sustainable urban development, and the analysis of this study on multimodal travel efficiency and inequality of bike-sharing can provide helpful insights for future sustainable urban planning.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Recommended Citation

Liu, Z., Fang, C., Li, H., Wu, J., Zhou, L., & Werner, M. (2024). Efficiency and equality of the multimodal travel between public transit and bike-sharing accounting for multiscale. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101, 105096.