Hail a cab or ride a bike? A travel time comparison of taxi and bicycle-sharing systems in New York City

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 101, Issue , 2017, Pages 11-21

  Faghih Imani, Ahmadreza ^a   Anowar, Sabreena ^b   Miller, Eric J ^a   Eluru, Naveen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycle sharing systems; CitiBike New York; Panel mixed multinomial logit model; Taxi; Travel time

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TAXICABS; TIME SHARING SYSTEMS;

BICYCLE SHARING; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; NEW YORK; ORIGIN AND DESTINATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAXI; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS;

TRAVEL TIME;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLE TRANSPORT; LOGIT ANALYSIS; TAXI TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN TRANSPORT;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019136634     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.006     Document Type: Article

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