After a number of emails in the past few days, I have set up a Google group called “Bike Sharing Research and Practice” for everyone who is interested in shared bicycle systems. If that includes you, please join!

The (pre-group) list was also recently sharing a number of research papers related to bike sharing systems around the world. I’ve been collecting the links to number of them; here they are (some are missing reference details):

Papers

[pdf] J. Froehlich, J. Neumann, N. Oliver. Sensing and Predicting the Pulse of the City through Shared Bicycling. In 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), July 2009.

[pdf] J. Froehlich, J. Neumann, N. Oliver. Measuring the Pulse of the City through Shared Bicycle Programs. In International Workshop on Urban, Community and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems (UrbanSense), November 2008.

[arxiv] A. Kaltenbrunner, R. Meza, J. Grivolla, J. Codina, R. Banchs. Bicycle Cycles and Mobility Patterns: Exploring and Characterizing Data from A Community Bicycle Program.

[pdf] A. Kaltenbrunner, R. Meza, J. Grivolla, J. Codina, R. Banchs. Urban Cycles and Mobility Patterns: Exploring and Predicting Trends in a Bicycle-based Public Transport System. In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 6 Issue 4, August 2010.

R. Nair, E. Miller-Hooks, R. C. Hampshire, A. Busic. Large-Scale Bicycle Sharing Systems: Analysis of Velib. (submitted for publication; there are further papers in review/under submission on Rahul Nair’s website).

[pdf] M. Benchimol, P. Benchimol, B. Chappert, A. De la Taille, F. Laroche, F. Meunier, L. Robinet. Balancing the Stations of a Self-Service “Bike Hire” System.

[link] “Shared Bicycles in a City: A Signal Processing and Data Analysis Perspective”, Pierre Borgnat, Céline Robardet, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Eric Fleury, Patrice Abry, Patrick Flandrin, accepted to Advances in Complex Systems, 12/2010

[link] “Spatial analysis of dynamic movements of Vélo’v, Lyon’s shared bicycle program’’, P. Borgnat, E. Fleury, C. Robardet, A. Scherrer, European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS’09, Warwick University (UK), 21-25 September 2009

[link] “Studying Lyon’s Vélo’V: A Statistical Cyclic Model’’, P. Borgnat, P. Abry, P. Flandrin, J.-B. Rouquier, European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS’09, Warwick University (UK), 21-25 September 2009

[pdf] D. Chemla, F. Meunier, R. W. Calvo. Balancing a Bike-Sharing System with Multiple Vehicles. 2009.

[pdf] P. deMaio. Bike-sharing: History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future. Journal of Public Transportation 12 41–56.

R. C. Hampshire, A. Busic. A Stochastic Model and Optimization for Bike Sharing Programs. (working paper, 2011)

P. Jensen, J. Rouquier, N. Ovtracht, C. Robardet. Characterizing the Speed and Paths of Shared Bicycles in Lyon. 2010. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 15.

G. R. Krykewycz, J. Rocks, B. Bonnette, F. Jaskiewicz. Defining a Primary Market and Estimating Demand for Major Bicycle-Sharing Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2143 117–124. 2011.

J. Lin, T. Yang. Strategic Design of Public Bicycle Sharing Systems with Service Level Constraints. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 47(2) 284 – 294. 2011.

obis (project). 2011. Analysis of Existing Bike Sharing Systems in European Cities .

T. Raviv, M Tzur, I. A. Forma. Static Repositioning in a Bike-Sharing System: Models and Solution Approaches. 2010.

S. Shaheen, S. Guzman, H. Zhang. Bikesharing in Europe, the Americas, and Asia: Past, Present, and Future. Journal Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2143 159–167. 2010.

[pdf] I. Wang, S. Jia, C. Chow, T. Mabel. Bicycle-sharing system: Deployment, Utilization and the Value of Re-Distribution.

N. Lathia, S. Ahmed, L. Capra. Measuring the Impact of Opening the London Shared Bicycle Scheme to Casual Users. In Transportation Research Part C, accepted December 2011.

Feasibility Studies

[pdf] Seattle

[pdf] London

Visualisation

Bike Share visualisations/maps by Oliver O’Brien (site)