A spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis of dockless bike sharing patterns to understand urban flows over the last mile
A spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis of dockless bike sharing patterns to understand urban flows over the last mile
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Yuanxuan Yang;Alison J. Heppenstall;Andy Turner;Alexis J. Comber
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Yuanxuan Yang;Alison J. Heppenstall;Andy Turner;Alexis J. Comber
The recent emergence of dockless bike sharing systems has resulted in new patterns of urban transport. Users can begin and end trips from their origin and destination locations rather than docking stations. Analysis of changes in the spatiotemporal availability of such bikes has the ability to provide insights into urban dynamics at a fi ner granularity than is possible through analysis of travel card or dock-based bike scheme data. This study analyses dockless bike sharing in Nanchang, China over a period when a new metro line came into operation. It uses spatial statistics and graph-based approaches to quantify changes in travel behaviours and generates previously unobtainable insights about urban fl ow structures. Geostatistical analyses support understanding of large-scale changes in spatiotemporal travel behaviours and graph-based approaches allow changes in local travel fl ows between individual locations to be quanti fi ed and characterized. The results show how the new metro service boosted nearby bike demand, but with considerable spatial variation, and changed the spatiotemporal patterns of bike travel behaviour. The analysis also quanti fi es the evolution of travel fl ow structures, indicating the resilience of dockless bike schemes and their ability to adapt to changes in travel behaviours. More widely, this study demonstrates how an enhanced understanding of urban dynamics over the “ last-mile ” is supported by the analyses of dockless bike data. These allow changes in local spatiotemporal interdependencies between di ff erent transport systems to be evaluated, and support spatially detailed urban and transport planning. A number of areas of further work are identi fi ed to better to understand interdependencies between di ff erent transit system components.