Assessing changes in job accessibility and commuting time under bike-sharing scenarios

Bike-sharing improves individual mobility, considerably reshaping the landscape of job accessibility and commuting time. Existing empirical studies in urban transportation involving commuting usually collect survey data at the aggregate level. A comprehensive understanding of the influence of bike-sharing on commuting and job accessibility at the city level is still missing in developing countries. Using mobile phone data in Beijing, this study addresses these questions with a commuting mode model and cumulative accessibility model. The results indicate that bike-sharing could lead to a decrease in commuting time and an increase in job accessibility. The availability of bike-sharing services has a positive relationship with its effectiveness. Meanwhile, bike-sharing significantly reduces the horizontal and vertical inequality in commuting time and job accessibility at both the individual and spatial levels. These findings provide insights into the popularity of bike-sharing in China, shed light on the equity influence of bike-sharing, and provide a quantitative measurement of the benefit of bike-sharing.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2022.2043950
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2022 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Limited 2022. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
• Authors:
  • Wang, Jianying
  • Kwan, Mei-Po
  • Cao, Wenpu
  • Gong, Yongxi
  • Guo, Liang
  • Liu, Yu
• Publication Date: 2024-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 2043950
• Serial:
  • Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 2324-9935
  • EISSN: 2324-9943
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttra21

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Commuting; Jobs; Transportation equity; Travel time; Vehicle sharing
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01905818
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 26 2024 10:02AM