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The demand for cycle sharing: Examining the links between weather conditions, air quality levels, and cycling demand for regular and casual users

Craig Morton

Journal of Transport Geography, 2020, vol. 88, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines temporal variation in the demand for cycling to understand how environmental conditions may promote or hinder active travel. The role of environmental conditions is considered in terms of the prevailing weather as well as the concentration levelof local air pollutants. Using data derived from the London Bicycle Sharing Scheme, a set of autoregressive distributed lag models are specified to explore these relationships. The models distinguish casual cyclists from regular cyclists to allow the analysis to consider the demand profiles of these two market segments separately rather than jointly. The analysis makes use of an open science approach, with the data inspected, the models applied, and the results derived being made freely available to interested parties through an online repository.

Keywords: Cycling demand; Environmental determinism; Active travel; Weather; Air quality; Time series analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102854

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