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Bike Share Usage and the Built Environment: A Review
Yuanyuan Guo1, Linchuan Yang2, Yang Chen3
1Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Frontiers in Public Health
|March 10, 2022
Summary
Bike share programs promote physical activity and sustainable transport. This review explores how urban design, land use, and transit access influence bike share use, revealing variations across different contexts and user behaviors.
Area of Science:
- Urban Planning and Transportation Science
- Environmental Health and Sustainability
Background:
- Bike sharing offers health benefits through physical activity and promotes eco-friendly mobility, contributing to carbon neutrality.
- Effective urban and transportation planning requires understanding the link between the built environment and bike share system usage.
- Existing literature reviews on this topic are limited, highlighting a need for comprehensive analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- To systematically review and synthesize existing research on the relationship between various built environment attributes and bike share usage.
- To identify key built environment dimensions influencing bike share adoption and utilization patterns.
- To explore how factors like mobility cultures, system types (docked/dockless), and trip characteristics moderate these relationships.
Main Methods:
- Comprehensive literature review of studies examining bike share usage and built environment factors.
- Categorization of built environment attributes into land use, transportation systems, and urban design.
- Analysis of how identified attributes impact bike share usage across different contexts (mobility cultures, system types, usage patterns).
Main Results:
- Built environment attributes significantly influence bike share usage, but effects vary based on mobility cultures, docked versus dockless systems, and trip origins/destinations.
- Proximity to amenities like parks, universities, and metro stations impacts usage, with variations observed between weekdays/weekends and different trip purposes.
- The study identifies complex, context-dependent relationships between urban form and bike share system effectiveness.
Conclusions:
- Understanding the nuanced relationship between the built environment and bike share usage is crucial for optimizing system operations and informing urban planning strategies.
- Tailoring bike share deployment and management to specific urban contexts and user needs can enhance system adoption and impact.
- This review advances knowledge by detailing how diverse built environment elements interact with bike share use across various conditions.
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