Bisiklet Paylaşım Sistemlerindeki Yolculuk Uzunluğu Üzerinde Etkili Parametrelerin İncelenmesi

Authors : Metin Mutlu AYDIN, Mehmet Sinan YILDIRIM

Pages : 163-172

Doi:10.17714/gumusfenbil.418778

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Publication Date : 2019-01-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Various bike sharing systems (BSS) were designed and used in different cities of the world in the past decade. Many benefits of the BSS have supplied a rapid growth of this transport mode in all around the world. BSS mainly have many benefits such as traffic (flexible mobility and multimodal transport connections), health (physical activity) and cost (low trip cost). Also a planned BSS can serve an easy access to other public transportation system and can be an important actor of the public transportation system. Especially in many big cities, bike sharing systems becomes an important part of the public transportation and ensure short travel times to users. However, the growing may causes many problems such as demand, safety, effectiveness, cost etc. For this purpose many studies have conducted by the planners, researchers and decision makers to find best solutions to mentioned problems. In the scope of this study, the relation among average temperature, trip length and trip number was examined for a bike sharing system. For this purpose, Capital Bikeshare system (Washington, D.C., Arlington and Alexandria, VA and Montgomery County, MD) is chosen as pilot system to investigate. Study results showed that there is a strong and positive correlation among temperature, trip number and trip length. Additionally, it was obtained that bicycle utilization has a maximum value between 5-10 minutes. This results can be caused by the free utilization duration (30 minutes) of the system for the members.
Keywords : Bike sharing systems, Public transportation, Transport mode, Trip length distribution

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