Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing

A detailed evaluation of the riding environment can help the government master the urban riding environment, identify problematic road sections, and improve riding quality. However, the current evaluation of riding environment is mainly subjective, lacking big data (e.g., shared bicycle trajectory d...

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Main Authors: Ying Hu, Chunfu Shao, Shuling Wang, Hairui Sun, Pengfei Sun, Zhongfu Chu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2023-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2560780
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author Ying Hu
Chunfu Shao
Shuling Wang
Hairui Sun
Pengfei Sun
Zhongfu Chu
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Chunfu Shao
Shuling Wang
Hairui Sun
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Zhongfu Chu
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description A detailed evaluation of the riding environment can help the government master the urban riding environment, identify problematic road sections, and improve riding quality. However, the current evaluation of riding environment is mainly subjective, lacking big data (e.g., shared bicycle trajectory data) as a data-driven objective evaluation system. The emergence of shared bicycle data has provided data support for data-driven riding environment evaluation, but there are few studies using shared bicycle data for riding evaluation at present. First, according to the characteristics of the data and the riding environment, a boxplot method and Bayesian probabilistic network model are used to exclude abnormal data and to match trajectories to road sections. Second, this paper proposes a data-driven evaluation framework based on riding influencing factors. An evaluation framework, which is composed of node-, link-, and block-level evaluation indicators, was constructed, using an evaluation model combining TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors). The evaluation results can identify parking issues, intersection difficulties, and lane occupancy issues on bicycle sections, and visually reflect the riding environment. The significance of this article is to create an objective evaluation system based on a data-driven technology to accurately identify sections and causes of riding quality problems. The research results can be applied in the future to evaluate the cycling environment around the railway stations for bicycle parking planning and determine the foothold for traffic management.
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spelling doaj.art-767948c698cd42dba60c1258f051631f2023-05-06T00:00:17ZengHindawi-WileyJournal of Advanced Transportation2042-31952023-01-01202310.1155/2023/2560780Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of BeijingYing Hu0Chunfu Shao1Shuling Wang2Hairui Sun3Pengfei Sun4Zhongfu Chu5School of Traffic and TransportationSchool of Traffic and TransportationBeijing Transport InstituteBeijing Best Transport Tech Co.Beijing Transport InstituteBeijing Transport InstituteA detailed evaluation of the riding environment can help the government master the urban riding environment, identify problematic road sections, and improve riding quality. However, the current evaluation of riding environment is mainly subjective, lacking big data (e.g., shared bicycle trajectory data) as a data-driven objective evaluation system. The emergence of shared bicycle data has provided data support for data-driven riding environment evaluation, but there are few studies using shared bicycle data for riding evaluation at present. First, according to the characteristics of the data and the riding environment, a boxplot method and Bayesian probabilistic network model are used to exclude abnormal data and to match trajectories to road sections. Second, this paper proposes a data-driven evaluation framework based on riding influencing factors. An evaluation framework, which is composed of node-, link-, and block-level evaluation indicators, was constructed, using an evaluation model combining TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors). The evaluation results can identify parking issues, intersection difficulties, and lane occupancy issues on bicycle sections, and visually reflect the riding environment. The significance of this article is to create an objective evaluation system based on a data-driven technology to accurately identify sections and causes of riding quality problems. The research results can be applied in the future to evaluate the cycling environment around the railway stations for bicycle parking planning and determine the foothold for traffic management.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2560780
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Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
Journal of Advanced Transportation
title Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
title_full Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
title_fullStr Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
title_short Evaluating Bicycling Environments with Trajectory Data on Shared Bikes: A Case Study of Beijing
title_sort evaluating bicycling environments with trajectory data on shared bikes a case study of beijing
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