Determinants of station-based round-trip bikesharing demand

Determinants of station-based round-trip bikesharing demand

Wilkesmann, Florian (Student TU Delft)
Ton, Danique (NS Stations)
Schakenbos, Rik (NS Stations)
Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)

2023

First and last mile connectivity of public transport hubs is a key component in promoting multi-modal travel. The Dutch train station operator (NS Stations) promotes the combination of bike and train by offering a train station-based round-trip bikesharing (SBRT) scheme, known as ‘OV-fiets’, located at train stations throughout the country. This scheme allows users to rent a bike to travel between train stations and their destination and vice versa. The round-trip nature of the SBRT makes it unique in comparison to widely applied one-way bikesharing schemes. Little is known about the determinants of demand for round-trip bikesharing, especially when being integrated into an existing PT scheme. This paper aims to fill this gap by identifying potential temporal and weather-related determinants for SBRT-rentals of the Dutch SBRT-system using multiple linear regression (MLR) and an in-depth analysis for selected stations. The results are compared with the findings of one-way bikesharing schemes. The results show that for hourly rentals in an SBRT-system, the highest explanatory power is attributed to the number of train travelers leaving the corresponding train station, followed by temporal and weather-related determinants. Furthermore, the magnitude of the correlation between the determinants and the hourly demand varies considerably across stations, depending on the underlying demand patterns.

Bikesharing
Demand analysis
Last mile
Public transport
Round-trip

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bc335271-b712-4476-9236-59a05d7fcd98

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2023.100048

1077-291X

Journal of Public Transportation, 25

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© 2023 Florian Wilkesmann, Danique Ton, Rik Schakenbos, O. Cats