Abstract
Recently, the traditional travel modes and public transportation system in urban areas have undergone some subtle changes under the impact of shared bikes, especially for public bus, which is the most impacted by the shared bikes. Therefore, this paper mainly aims at studying the impact of shared bicycles on the public bus from both competitive and cooperative perspectives. More specifically, this study will explore the coopetition relationship between these two modes from travellers’ behaviour perspective. An SP survey has been conducted on traveller in Beijing and a Multinomial Logit model was adopted to quantitatively analyse the effect of various factors on travellers’ modal choice between bus and shared bikes. In this study, the estimation results show that the travel distance, road infrastructure, and travelers’ psychological factors all suggest a competition between bus and bike sharing. On the contrary, distance between bus transfer stations will also lead to modal cooperation. Finally, some policy implications have been proposed to better facilitate public transports and promote the sustainable development of whole urban transport system.
Highlights
Shared bikes become a new trend of urban transportation system, which are a prominent component of the sharing economy(Shaheen S A, 2016)
Those who are likely to riding for a relatively longer distance will decrease bus use and increase cycling, which suggests that there is a competition between public bus and bike sharing in acceptable maximum riding distance
The use of shared bicycles directly reduces the share of the public transport system and, to a certain extent, causes waste of public transit resources such as parking space, road traffic space, passenger transport efficiency, etc., which intriguing further exploration in relationship between public bus and bike sharing
Summary
Shared bikes become a new trend of urban transportation system, which are a prominent component of the sharing economy(Shaheen S A, 2016). To better cope with these effects, coordinate urban traffic system and maximize the overall benefits of social economy, it is meaningful to explore the relationship and interaction mechanism between shared bicycles and other public transportation system. Judging from the existing researches, the discussion on the relationship between shared bicycles and public bus is still limited. Among these cases, the relationship will different resulting from various influencing factors, such as built environment (Wafic El - along, et al, 2015), travel distance, travel destination and motivation (Julie Marleau Bachand, 2012), weather, personal psychological factors, etc.
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