Abstract
Bike-sharing is widely recognized as an eco-friendly mode of transportation and seen as one of the solutions to the problem of air pollution and congestion. As there is little research exploring the performance of bicycle-sharing systems (BSS), many municipal authorities invest in their development without knowledge of their effectiveness. Therefore, the aim of this article is to identify factors that correlate with BSS performance. Data related to BSS and urban characteristics were collected for the 56 cities in Poland, which is the population of BSS systems in this country. The Ordinary Least Square regression model was used to estimate the model. Additionally, to support our findings, a survey of 3631 cyclists was conducted. Our main findings show that BSS performance was positively related to cities’ population, tourism, number of bike stations per capita, congestion, bicycle pathways’ length and higher temperature, and negatively related to precipitation. We have also found that one BSS operator was more effective compared to the others.
Highlights
Bicycles are an example of an eco-friendly means of transport [1]
The aim of this article is to identify factors that correlate with bicycle-sharing systems (BSS) performance in Poland
Our first contribution is to examine whether factors found to be effective in BSS performance in other countries relate to the success of BSSs in Poland
Summary
Bicycles are an example of an eco-friendly means of transport [1]. Using no fossil fuels and producing no noise or air pollution, bikes help to improve sustainable urban mobility. The idea of bike-sharing systems (BSSs) makes bicycles more available and used more frequently within urbanised areas, helping to improve urban transport systems [3,4,5]. To have such an impact, BSS have to be efficient and attract many users. The aim of this article is to identify factors that correlate with BSS performance in Poland To achieve this goal, we used a unique approach of combining quantitative data on all 56 existing BBSs in Poland with a survey of Polish BSS users. We contribute to the BSS literature by confirming that our exploratory quantitative results match the results from our survey of cyclists
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