A study on the trip behavior of shared bicycles and shared electric bikes in Chinese universities based on NL model—Henan Polytechnic University as an example

Abstract

With the gradual expansion of the university scale, it is extremely inconvenient for students to travel to and from campus and classrooms. Bikeshare and shared electric bike (e-bikeshare) are currently promising solutions for campus travel. Most literature has recently focused on bikeshare and e-bikeshare studies in the urban environment, with little attention on campus. However, campuses are significantly different from urban environments, which hinder the active promotion of campus bikeshare and e-bikeshare use. The subject of this paper is Henan Polytechnic University, which is one of the largest bikeshare and e-bikeshare universities in China. Based on the analysis and summary of travel characteristics of Chinese college travelers, this paper uses RP and SP survey data to construct a Nested Logit model to explore the potential factors influencing the use behavior of bikeshare and e-bikeshare in Chinese college environments. The results show that bikeshare and e-bikeshare are the most sensitive to trip time. The influence of trip purpose and weather conditions on the selection of bikeshare and e-bikeshare is smaller than that of time urgency. According to the estimated trip sharing rate of the model, we find that bikeshare and e-bikeshare are attractive.