Abstract Revealing dockless bike-sharing utilization pattern and its explanatory factors are essential for urban planners and operators to improve the utilization and turnover of public bikes. This study explores the dockless bike-sharing utilization pattern from the perspective of bike using GPS-based bike origin-destination data collected in Shanghai, China. In this paper, utilization patterns are captured by decoupling several spatially cohesive regions with intensive bike use via non-negative matrix factorization. We then measure the utilization efficiency of bikes within each sub-region by calculating Time to booking (ToB) for each bike and explore how the built environment and social-demographic characteristics influence the bike-sharing utilization with ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. The matrix factorization results indicate that the shared bikes mainly serve a certain area instead of the whole city. In addition, the GWR model shows higher explanatory power (Adjusted R 2 = 0.774) than the OLS regression model (Adjusted R 2 = 0.520), which suggests a close relationship between bike-sharing utilization and the selected explanatory variables. The coefficients of the GWR model reveal the spatial variations of the linkage between bike-sharing utilization and its explanatory factors across the study area. This study can shed light on understanding the demand and supply of shared bikes for rebalancing and provide support for operators to improve the dockless bike-sharing utilization efficiency.


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    Title :

    An empirical analysis of dockless bike-sharing utilization and its explanatory factors: Case study from Shanghai, China


    Contributors:
    Li, Aoyong (author) / Zhao, Pengxiang (author) / Huang, Yizhe (author) / Gao, Kun (author) / Axhausen, Kay W. (author)


    Publication date :

    2020-08-06




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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