eprintid: 1423657 rev_number: 37 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/42/36/57 datestamp: 2014-03-22 06:54:27 lastmod: 2021-10-12 21:52:50 status_changed: 2017-05-04 13:03:57 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Austwick, MZ creators_name: O'Brien, O creators_name: Strano, E creators_name: Viana, M title: The Structure of Spatial Networks and Communities in Bicycle Sharing Systems ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F26 keywords: Network analysis, Data visualization, Entropy, Roads, Finance, Rivers, Behavioral geography, Seasons note: Copyright © 2013 Zaltz Austwick et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. abstract: 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. date: 2013-09-06 date_type: published publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074685 vfaculties: VBEF oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: PubMed elements_id: 904386 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074685 lyricists_name: Austwick, Martin Robert Zaltz lyricists_name: O'Brien, Oliver lyricists_id: MAUST60 lyricists_id: OGTOB45 actors_name: O'Brien, Oliver actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic actors_id: OGTOB45 actors_id: DAALL44 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: PLOS One volume: 8 number: 9 article_number: e74685 pages: 17 issn: 1932-6203 citation: Austwick, MZ; O'Brien, O; Strano, E; Viana, M; (2013) The Structure of Spatial Networks and Communities in Bicycle Sharing Systems. PLOS One , 8 (9) , Article e74685. 10.1371/journal.pone.0074685 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074685>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1423657/1/The%20structure%20of%20spatial%20networks%20and%20communities%20in%20bicycle%20sharing%20systems.pdf