The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems.

ABSTRACT: Bicycle sharing systems exist in hundreds of cities around the world, with the aim of providing a form of public transport with the associated health and environmental benefits of cycling without the burden of private ownership and maintenance. Five cities have provided research data on the journeys (start and end time and location) taking place in their bicycle sharing system. In this paper, we employ visualization, descriptive statistics and spatial and network analysis tools to explore system usage in these cities, using techniques to investigate features specific to the unique geographies of each, and uncovering similarities between different systems. Journey displacement analysis demonstrates similar journey distances across the cities sampled, and the (out)strength rank curve for the

SUBMITTER: Zaltz Austwick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3765359 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature