Exploring the Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of the Built Environment on Bike-Sharing Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bike-sharing holds promise for available and healthy mobility services during COVID-19 where bike sharing users can make trips with lower health concerns due to social distancing compared to the restricted transportation modes such as public transit and ridesharing services. Leveraging the trip data...

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Main Authors: Hongtai Yang, Zishuo Guo, Guocong Zhai, Linchuan Yang, Jinghai Huo
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7772401
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author Hongtai Yang
Zishuo Guo
Guocong Zhai
Linchuan Yang
Jinghai Huo
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Jinghai Huo
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description Bike-sharing holds promise for available and healthy mobility services during COVID-19 where bike sharing users can make trips with lower health concerns due to social distancing compared to the restricted transportation modes such as public transit and ridesharing services. Leveraging the trip data of the Divvy bike-sharing system in Chicago, this study exploresspatially heterogeneous effects of built environment on bike-sharing usage under the pandemic. Results show that the average weekly ridership declined by 52.04%. To account for the spatially heterogeneous relationship between the built environment and the ridership, the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model and the semiparametric GWR (S-GWR) model are constructed. We find that the S-GWR model outperforms the GWR and the multiple linear regression models. The results of the S-GWR model indicate that education employment density, distance to subway, COVID-19 cases, and ridership before COVID-19 are global variables. The effects between ridership and the built environment factros (i.e., household density, office employment density, and the ridership) vary across space. The results of this study could provide a useful reference to transportation planners and bike-sharing operators to determine the high bike-sharing demand area under the pandemic,thus adjusting station locations, capacity, and rebalancing schemes accordingly.
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spelling doaj-art-3c97b5797ffd4262ab5d418bb9a57bc62025-08-20T03:55:37ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation2042-31952022-01-01202210.1155/2022/7772401Exploring the Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of the Built Environment on Bike-Sharing Usage during the COVID-19 PandemicHongtai Yang0Zishuo Guo1Guocong Zhai2Linchuan Yang3Jinghai Huo4School of Transportation and LogisticsSchool of Transportation and LogisticsDepartment of Civil & Environmental EngineeringDepartment of Urban and Rural PlanningSchool of Transportation and LogisticsBike-sharing holds promise for available and healthy mobility services during COVID-19 where bike sharing users can make trips with lower health concerns due to social distancing compared to the restricted transportation modes such as public transit and ridesharing services. Leveraging the trip data of the Divvy bike-sharing system in Chicago, this study exploresspatially heterogeneous effects of built environment on bike-sharing usage under the pandemic. Results show that the average weekly ridership declined by 52.04%. To account for the spatially heterogeneous relationship between the built environment and the ridership, the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model and the semiparametric GWR (S-GWR) model are constructed. We find that the S-GWR model outperforms the GWR and the multiple linear regression models. The results of the S-GWR model indicate that education employment density, distance to subway, COVID-19 cases, and ridership before COVID-19 are global variables. The effects between ridership and the built environment factros (i.e., household density, office employment density, and the ridership) vary across space. The results of this study could provide a useful reference to transportation planners and bike-sharing operators to determine the high bike-sharing demand area under the pandemic,thus adjusting station locations, capacity, and rebalancing schemes accordingly.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7772401
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title_short Exploring the Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of the Built Environment on Bike-Sharing Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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