eprintid: 1423657
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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   
 
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