BICYCLE-SHARING NETWORK PLANNING AND OPERATIONS

Abstract

Bicycle sharing systems (BSSs) have been emerging and developing rapidly in recent years. However, a lot of problems remain unsolved from both planning and managerial perspectives. These problems all hinder the further acceptance of bike sharing and deteriorate the user experience. To tackle the existing problems in BSS, in this thesis will focus on the network design of bicycle lanes, bicycle station planning, bike relocation strategies and assessment of BSS as a commute mode. More specifically, we propose (i) a user-oriented sidewalk-based bicycle path network design considering cycling time distribution problem, (ii) a geo-fencing bike sharing station planning problem, (iii) a bicycle relocation problem with broken bikes, and (iv) a simulation-based analysis on bike sharing as a commute mode. The proposed models, algorithms and their results will shed light on planning and operations of shared bicycles in Singapore and can be extended to other active mobility modes as well.