Effects of built environment and weather on bike sharing demand: a station level analysis of commercial bike sharing in Toronto

Transportation

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 589-613

  El Assi, Wafic ^a   Salah Mahmoud, Mohamed ^a   Nurul Habib, Khandker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bike share Toronto; Origin Destination model; Temporal activity

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

BIKE INFRASTRUCTURES; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; EMPIRICAL MODEL; INTERSECTION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISPERSION; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TORONTO;

BICYCLES;

CYCLE TRANSPORT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAVEL DEMAND; WEATHER;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84949969010     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-015-9669-z     Document Type: Article

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