@inproceedings{8eb30617614344309a3cd4c5a50c4f85,
title = "Revealing Travel Patterns of Sharing-Bikes in a Spatial-Temporal Manner Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Method",
abstract = "The booming bike-sharing business provides great convenience to people's daily travel and brings notable change to city traffic. Meanwhile, few studies have analyzed the basis patterns of sharing-bikes and their influence on the traffic using empirical data. In this paper, we investigate the data provided by one of the leading bike-sharing companies. The city is gridded into regular rectangle regions using a geohash algorithm, and the starting and ending region of bike journeys are given. We modeled the macro travel patterns of sharing bikes in a spatial-temporal manner and used the non-negative matrix factorization (NFM) method to obtain the basis collective patterns. The patterns show that, different from other modes of shared mobility like ride-sharing, the trip characteristics of bike-sharing could be approximately described by a linear combination of three basis patterns, and bike-sharing mainly serves for the first/last mile short-distance travel around transport hubs, i.e., subway stations. Our findings are helpful for policy makers to better understand the dynamics patterns and influence of sharing-bikes, and to make better arrangements towards facility building and other bike policies.",
author = "Yongqi Dong and Zi Yang and Yun Yue and Xin Pei and Zuo Zhang",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1061/9780784481523.165",
language = "English",
series = "CICTP 2018: Intelligence, Connectivity, and Mobility - Proceedings of the 18th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals",
publisher = "American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)",
pages = "1665--1674",
editor = "Xiaokun Wang and Yu Zhang and Diange Yang and Zheng You",
booktitle = "CICTP 2018",
address = "United States",
note = "18th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Intelligence, Connectivity, and Mobility, CICTP 2018 ; Conference date: 05-07-2018 Through 08-07-2018",
}