Examining the effects of a temporary subway closure on cycling in Glasgow using bike-sharing data

This study takes the 39-day Glasgow Subway closure in July 2016 as a natural experiment to evaluate the effect of subway closure on bike-sharing trips. The authors find that bike-sharing trips increased by 20.7% for incoming trips and 20.1% for outgoing trips on average for each bike station in the proximity of subway station during the subway suspension. Some of this change persisted, with 12.4% of the increased bike-sharing trips remaining after the resumption of the subway service. The findings suggest that first, subway and bike-sharing trips are substitutes; second, this temporary service disruption was not enough to break commuters’ long-term habits, and third, the diversion factors implied by the results are much lower than the recommended values for UK cities.

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  • Accession Number: 01777422
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jul 23 2021 3:26PM