Abstract
Bike share engages riders in physical activity, beneficial to health. In addition, it promotes green mobility and contributes to carbon neutrality. An understanding of the association between bike share usage and the built environment is essential for system operation/management and urban/transportation planning. Limited reviews of the existing literature exist now. Therefore, we review previous studies to decipher the complex relationship between bike share usage and the built environment. We focus on a few built environment dimensions (e.g., land use, transportation system, and urban design) and find that many attributes affect bike share usage differently across mobility cultures, between docked and dockless bike share, and between arrival and departure usage patterns. The effects of several attributes (e.g., proximity to a park or university and metro station density) on bike share usage also vary between weekdays and weekends and across trip purposes. The findings of this paper advance knowledge on the connection between bike share usage and the built environment.
Highlights
Cycling is an economical, healthy, and green transport mode that contributes to carbon neutrality
This study has shown that the effects of certain built environment factors on bike share usage were sometimes inconsistent among the selected empirical studies
From the perspective of the urban environment and society, bike share offers a number of advantages over other transport modes
Summary
Healthy, and green transport mode that contributes to carbon neutrality. Cities in West Europe, East Asia, and North America & Oceania are generally cycling-oriented, transit-oriented (or transit-dependent), and automobile-oriented, respectively [26, 31–33] Such a variance in the mobility culture results in a unique built environment related to cycling, thereby making a difference in affecting bike share usage. (5) Owing to the difference in urban density between East Asia, West Europe, and North America, population/employment density in the catchment areas of bike stations affects the demand for bike share usage differently. A recent study has explored the nonlinear effect of various density indicators on dockless bike share usage [53] It concludes that cycling trips consistently increase when employment density and population density reaches 12,000 jobs/km and 20,000 persons/km, respectively. Among the factors affecting the feeder mode choice of the metro, the built environment around the metro station/home/workplace plays an important role
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