A GIS-Based Method of the Assessment of Spatial Integration of Bike-Sharing Stations

Renata Żochowska,Marianna Jacyna,Marcin Jacek Kłos,Piotr Soczówka

doi:10.3390/su13073894

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Abstract

The paper presents a method of the assessment of spatial integration of bike-sharing stations in urban agglomerations based on GIS tools for analyses. The method uses four sub-models: system of bike-sharing stations, road and street network, demand for bike-sharing ridership, bike-sharing ridership routing, and value matrix of spatial integration measures. The presented method allows the identification of different categories of segments of the road and street network used for bike travels and enables the identification of the set of segments that should be upgraded into bike-friendly infrastructure offering bike lanes or cycle paths in order to ensure the appropriate level of spatial integration of bike-sharing stations. The possibility of the application of the method has been studied on the example of the existing bike-sharing system in Katowice, a city in southern Poland. The research presented in the paper has been conducted based on data on bike rentals and bike trips from eight months of 2018. Selected results of the spatial integration assessment of bike-sharing stations, which may be useful for making investment decisions in the bike-sharing system development, are presented.

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The main aim of this paper was to develop a method of the assessment of the spatial integration of bike-sharing stations operating in urban agglomerations with the application of GIS-tools for spatial analyses
It is inevitable to provide appropriate spatial integration of bike-sharing rental stations. It can be achieved by improving the technical parameters of segments of transport infrastructure that connect those stations, so they meet the needs of bike traffic
The analysis presented in the paper allows stating that the proposed method of the assessment of the spatial integration of bike-sharing stations in urban agglomerations based on GIS tools may be a useful instrument to perform essential analyses for the appropriate development of a bike-sharing system in the city

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Transport activity in large urban agglomerations has contributed to the numerous problems decreasing the quality of life. Such problems include congestion, pollution, noise, or health issues [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Many of them are derived from the dominant role of individual transport, especially private cars used for commuting [7]. Multiple studies on sustainable mobility have highlighted the importance of transit and transport modes alternative to private cars [8,9,10,11]

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