Highlights We estimate the impacts of COVID-19 related policies on the usage of public bicycle share in London. Segmented regression models and an interrupted time series design are applied. The lockdown led to a reduction in the public bicycle share usage after its initial imposition. During the lockdown and the lockdown ease period, the usage showed significant increasing trends. The impacts of the lockdown and the first lockdown ease vary by the characteristics of trips and docking stations.

    Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic led to the adoption of many unprecedented measures to slow down the spread of the virus. Such measures have greatly impacted the entire transportation system and individuals’ travel behaviors. This paper evaluates the impacts of COVID-19 related policies, including the lockdown and the first lockdown ease on the usage of public bicycle share in London using interrupted time series approach. Our results indicate that the UK’s lockdown led to an immediate decrease in the London Cycle Hire (LCH) usage, while the first lockdown ease had no statistically significant immediate impacts. Moreover, during the lockdown period, the LCH usage showed an increasing trend and the first lockdown ease led to a much larger increase rate. Such impacts vary by the trip characteristics (i.e., occurring period and trip duration). The morning peak trips and short duration trips maintained a lower usage level during the lockdown and the lockdown ease period. On the contrary, the number of other LCH trips were much larger than that in normal days. Furthermore, the impacts on the LCH stations near the rail stations, hospitals, and parks also varied differently. The LCH trips near the rail stations reduced more after the imposition of the lockdown policy while those near the hospitals reduced less. The LCH stations near the parks had a much higher increase rate during the lockdown and the lockdown ease period than the general level. Our results provide practical implications for the policy makers and operators of the public bicycle share system.


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    Title :

    Impacts of COVID-19 on the usage of public bicycle share in London


    Contributors:
    Li, Haojie (author) / Zhang, Yingheng (author) / Zhu, Manman (author) / Ren, Gang (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-06-14


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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