The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems.
Bicycle sharing systems exist in hundreds of cities around the world, with the aim of providing a form of public transport with the associated health and environmental benefits of cycling without the burden of private ownership and maintenance. Five cities have provided research data on the journeys...
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| author | Martin Zaltz Austwick Oliver O'Brien Emanuele Strano Matheus Viana |
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| description | Bicycle sharing systems exist in hundreds of cities around the world, with the aim of providing a form of public transport with the associated health and environmental benefits of cycling without the burden of private ownership and maintenance. Five cities have provided research data on the journeys (start and end time and location) taking place in their bicycle sharing system. In this paper, we employ visualization, descriptive statistics and spatial and network analysis tools to explore system usage in these cities, using techniques to investigate features specific to the unique geographies of each, and uncovering similarities between different systems. Journey displacement analysis demonstrates similar journey distances across the cities sampled, and the (out)strength rank curve for the top 50 stands in each city displays a similar scaling law for each. Community detection in the derived network can identify local pockets of use, and spatial network corrections provide the opportunity for insight above and beyond proximity/popularity correlations predicted by simple spatial interaction models. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb4b88411b16454c8da070ffb459654f2022-12-22T03:49:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-0189e7468510.1371/journal.pone.0074685The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems.Martin Zaltz AustwickOliver O'BrienEmanuele StranoMatheus VianaBicycle sharing systems exist in hundreds of cities around the world, with the aim of providing a form of public transport with the associated health and environmental benefits of cycling without the burden of private ownership and maintenance. Five cities have provided research data on the journeys (start and end time and location) taking place in their bicycle sharing system. In this paper, we employ visualization, descriptive statistics and spatial and network analysis tools to explore system usage in these cities, using techniques to investigate features specific to the unique geographies of each, and uncovering similarities between different systems. Journey displacement analysis demonstrates similar journey distances across the cities sampled, and the (out)strength rank curve for the top 50 stands in each city displays a similar scaling law for each. Community detection in the derived network can identify local pockets of use, and spatial network corrections provide the opportunity for insight above and beyond proximity/popularity correlations predicted by simple spatial interaction models.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3765359?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Martin Zaltz Austwick Oliver O'Brien Emanuele Strano Matheus Viana The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. PLoS ONE |
| title | The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. |
| title_full | The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. |
| title_fullStr | The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. |
| title_short | The structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems. |
| title_sort | structure of spatial networks and communities in bicycle sharing systems |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3765359?pdf=render |
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