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Residents in Seattle, WA Report Differential Use of Free-Floating Bikeshare by Age, Gender, Race, and Location
Frontiers in built environment, v 5
06 Mar 2019
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Abstract
Bikesharing may have numerous urban health, sustainability, and mobility benefits. Bikesharing systems that do not require stations (i.e., "dockless," or "free-floating" bikeshare) launched in North America in 2017. While this novel model may enhance access to and use of bikeshare by diverse populations, to date no work has examined equity in free-floating bikeshare use. This brief report uses a web-based panel survey (n= 601) to provide sociodemographic characteristics of adult Seattle residents reporting bikeshare use during the first 6 months of a pilot free-floating program. One-third of Seattle adults surveyed reported trying free-floating bikeshare. These users were disproportionately young, male, White, resided closer to the city center, and already more likely to have or use a bicycle. Safety, social, spatial access, physical size, operation, technology, and cost barriers remained, particularly for males and non-White respondents. Almost half of non-users were open to trying free-floating bikeshare. However, these respondents hold limited potential to diversify the user population: while more likely to be female, like current riders, they were young and already using bicycles. If cities, researchers, and operators work together in the rapidly-shifting mobility landscape, they may be able to remove inequitably distributed barriers to transportation technology.
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- Title
- Residents in Seattle, WA Report Differential Use of Free-Floating Bikeshare by Age, Gender, Race, and Location
- Creators
- Jana A. Hirsch - Drexel UniversityIan Stewart - EMC CorporationSianna Ziegler - EMC CorporationBen Richter - EMC CorporationStephen J. Mooney - University of Washington
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in built environment, v 5
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- Better Bike Share Partnership PeopleForBikes 1K99LM012868 / National Library of Medicine; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM) Urban Health Collaborative and Dornsife School of Public Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000559270600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85063098765
- Other Identifier
- 991019168633504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Construction & Building Technology
- Engineering, Civil