Usage and Temporal Patterns of Public Bicycle Systems: Comparison among Points of Interest

The public bicycle system is an important component of “mobility as a service” and has become increasingly popular in recent years. To provide better understanding the station activity driving mechanisms systems, study mainly compares usage temporal characteristics bicycles vicinity most common commuting-related points interest land use. It applies peak hour factor, distribution fitting, K-means clustering analysis on station-based data performs operation comparison among different following results are acquired: (1) demand type for universities hospitals peaks return-oriented when that middle schools hire-oriented; (2) bike hire return at metro stations frequent, while only rental malls is; (3) compared to subway with shortest duration, have longest valued 18.08 min; (4) medical transportation land, obvious morning concentrated whole day, respectively, both present lag relation between return. In rental-return similarity, commercial office lands highest level.