Factors of Bike-sharing Stations Load Change on the Example of Moscow Bike-sharing System

Student: Gorbatyuk Sergey

Supervisor: Egor Kotov

Faculty: Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism

Educational Programme: Urban Development and Spatial Planning (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

City bike sharing systems are growing dramatically. Still, problem of uneven distribution of bikes in the system, determined by profile of station usage, remains unsolved for users and operators. Spatial factors describing territory around stations appear among the factors, which determine profile of station usage. In this paper we identify main types of station usage profiles of Moscow’s Velobike system and describe how spatial factors determine shaping of those profiles. We also propose methods of using information on spatial determination of station usage profile for bike-sharing network design and station capacity prediction over short period of time.

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