Feasibility Study of Transferring Shared Bicycle Users with Commuting Demand to Flex-Route Transit—A Case Study of Nanjing City, China

Shared bicycle users with commuting purposes generally need to take a traditional public transit and then use the shared complete first/last mile transport. While provides convenient travel for travelers, it also brings series of problems such as disorderly parking road occupancy. Therefore, exploring problem mode shift between is significance improving traffic environment increasing sharing rate transit. This paper introduces flex-route system quantitatively analyzes rationality feasibility using pick up drop off demand from temporal perspectives. A route design model established objective minimizing sum vehicle driving time cost passenger cost, models are constructed, compared, analyzed explore picking or dropping under different conditions. Through subsequent sensitivity analysis, influence density, fixed station spacing, preference attributed two systems separately. The results demonstrate that can efficiently certain