The theoretical goal of bike-sharing services in metropolises is to serve short-distance direct trips and provide access to or egress from the closest high-capacity public transport stop. Besides citizens, bike-sharing can be popular among tourists if the service area covers the most important tourist attractions. This study aims to reveal the differences between tourists’ and non-tourists’ bike-sharing usage habits. The origin-destination data of the station-based bike-sharing system in Budapest, Hungary, were analyzed using over 300,000 rentals from September 2022. It was estimated that users were tourists if the country code of their billing address was not Hungary. Accordingly, 3.7% of the rentals were made by tourists. We found that there are significant differences in bike-sharing usage habits between tourists and non-tourists. Tourists’ renting time is longer, but the distance covered is the same as for non-tourists. Moreover, tourists mostly use the bike-sharing system in the afternoon and mostly (3/4 of their rentals) in the downtown area where the most popular tourist attractions are located. Decision-makers can use the results of this study to improve bike-sharing services and operators to optimize the reallocation.
How Do Tourists Use Bike-Sharing? Analyzing Origin-Destination Data of Tourists’ Bike-Sharing Usage in Budapest, Hungary
Lect.Notes Mobility
Transport Research Arena Conference ; 2024 ; Dublin, Ireland April 15, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility ; Kapitel : 38 ; 299-306
07.03.2025
8 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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