Examining usage patterns of a bike-sharing scheme in a medium sized city

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 100, Issue , 2017, Pages 152-161

  Caulfield, Brian ^a   O'Mahony, Margaret ^a   Brazil, William ^a   Weldon, Peter ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPORTATION;

COMPACT CITY; SHARING SCHEMES; TRIP PATTERNS; USAGE PATTERNS;

BICYCLES;

CYCLE TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CORK [COUNTY CORK]; COUNTY CORK; IRELAND; MUNSTER [IRELAND];

EID: 85018290403     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.04.023     Document Type: Article

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