Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics.
The understanding of human mobility patterns in different transportation modes is an interdisciplinary research field with a direct impact in aspects as varied as urban planning, traffic optimization, sustainability, the reduction of operating costs as well as the mitigation of pollution in urban ar...
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| author | D Loaiza-Monsalve A P Riascos |
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| description | The understanding of human mobility patterns in different transportation modes is an interdisciplinary research field with a direct impact in aspects as varied as urban planning, traffic optimization, sustainability, the reduction of operating costs as well as the mitigation of pollution in urban areas. In this paper, we study the global activity of users in bike-sharing systems operating in the cities of Chicago and New York. For this transportation mode, we explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of the mobility of cyclists. In particular, through the analysis of origin-destination matrices, we characterize the spatial structure of the displacements of users. We apply a mobility model for the global activity of the system that classifies the displacements between stations in local and non-local transitions. In local transitions, cyclists move in a region around each station whereas, in the non-local case, bike users travel with long-range displacements in a similar way to Lévy flights. We reproduce the spatial dynamics by using Monte Carlo simulations. The obtained results are similar to the observed in real data and reveal that the model implemented captures important characteristics of the global spatial dynamics in the systems analyzed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a7b33a683204acb9edcfb7a9b49cd0a2022-12-21T23:09:45ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032019-01-01143e021310610.1371/journal.pone.0213106Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics.D Loaiza-MonsalveA P RiascosThe understanding of human mobility patterns in different transportation modes is an interdisciplinary research field with a direct impact in aspects as varied as urban planning, traffic optimization, sustainability, the reduction of operating costs as well as the mitigation of pollution in urban areas. In this paper, we study the global activity of users in bike-sharing systems operating in the cities of Chicago and New York. For this transportation mode, we explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of the mobility of cyclists. In particular, through the analysis of origin-destination matrices, we characterize the spatial structure of the displacements of users. We apply a mobility model for the global activity of the system that classifies the displacements between stations in local and non-local transitions. In local transitions, cyclists move in a region around each station whereas, in the non-local case, bike users travel with long-range displacements in a similar way to Lévy flights. We reproduce the spatial dynamics by using Monte Carlo simulations. The obtained results are similar to the observed in real data and reveal that the model implemented captures important characteristics of the global spatial dynamics in the systems analyzed.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213106 |
| spellingShingle | D Loaiza-Monsalve A P Riascos Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. PLoS ONE |
| title | Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. |
| title_full | Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. |
| title_fullStr | Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. |
| title_short | Human mobility in bike-sharing systems: Structure of local and non-local dynamics. |
| title_sort | human mobility in bike sharing systems structure of local and non local dynamics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213106 |
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