Where did bike-share boom? Analyzing impact of infrastructure lockdowns on bike-sharing in Chicago
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent measures taken to control its spread had deep impacts on transportation behavior. This paper presents a methodology for evaluating the changes in bike-share use and focuses on the identification of extraordinary trip-making activity seen in Chicago’s Divvy bike-share program prior to and over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis period from January 2018 to April 2021 was subdivided into three time periods: pre-pandemic, citywide lockdown, and post-lockdown for all census tracts within the city of Chicago. Over the analysis window defined, an anomaly detection algorithm was used to characterize the nature of bike-share usage where anomalous trips were those that fell outside of the forecasted ranges. The changes in census tract-level bike-share usage were used to interpret how static census tract-level attributes—land use, transit connectivity, demographics, and bike infrastructure—may have contributed to varying responses across the city’s bike-share system. Principal component analysis was used to interpret the relationship between the dynamic trip-making characterizations and the static census tract-level attributes. Census tracts that transitioned from exhibiting below average to above average bike-share trip-making tended to have highly correlated bike infrastructure metrics. On the other hand, census tracts with consistently above average trip-making had highly correlated demographic characteristics, the values of which were consistent with their standing as key communities for service and essential workers. Overall, results indicate that post-lockdown, bike-sharing activity had grown significantly across the entire city, supporting the claim that the pandemic worked to accelerate bicycling uptake in urban areas.
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Supplemental Notes:
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Hernandez, Adrian
- 0000-0001-8920-1949
- Raymer, Meredith
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- Chen, Ying
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- Publication Date: 2024-1
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- English
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- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 101015
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Volume: 23
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 2590-1982
- Serial URL: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-interdisciplinary-perspectives
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Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; COVID-19; Infrastructure; Mode choice; Travel restrictions; Vehicle sharing
- Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
- Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;
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- Accession Number: 01908231
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 14 2024 2:42PM