Transit Access and Egress via Bicycle Sharing

The work will explore the benefits of designing bicycle-sharing programs to serve public mass transit. Given that bicycle speeds exceed those of walking, a transit system's ridership can increase by promoting bicycle travel to and from its stations. And bicycle sharing may reduce transit costs, especially if the bike-sharing and transit systems can be designed in joint fashion. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley will use continuum approximation models to design these systems for a pre-defined set of idealized scenarios. Researchers from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona will: (i) alter these idealized designs to suit real transit systems in California, (ii) estimate what would be the resulting added ridership for these real systems, and (iii) evaluate the altered designs using simulation. Finally, researchers at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo will identify policies to promote the deployment of the ideas in real settings.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $136380
• Contract Numbers:

  7918, 8072

• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Performing Organizations:

  California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

  California Polytehcnic State Univeristy
  San Luis Obispo, CA  United States  93407

  California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  3801 West Temple Avenue
  Pomona, CA  United States  91768

  University of California, Berkeley

  Transportation Center
  2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
  Berkely, CA  United States  94720-1782
• Principal Investigators:

  Daganzo, Carlos

• Start Date: 20120801
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 33512

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycle travel; Design; Nonmotorized transportation; Rail transit stations; Ridership; Simulation; Vehicle sharing
• Subject Areas: Design; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01471021
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of California Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: 7918, 8072
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 31 2013 1:01AM