Public Bikesharing in North America during a Period of Rapid Expansion: Understanding Business Models, Industry Trends, and User Impacts

Abstract

This study evaluates public bikesharing in North America, reviewing the change in travel behavior exhibited by members of different programs in the context of their business models and operational environment. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with IT-based bikesharing organizations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2013. The authors also conducted two kinds of surveys with bikesharing users, an online member survey and an on-street survey. Results show that bikesharing is causing a diverse array of modal shifts within the different cities surveyed. Bikesharing was found to reduce the number of respondents using the bus in four of the five cities. The survey also found that bikesharing reduced respondents driving by large margins in all cities. The appendix examines bikesharing rebalancing through an analysis of the Hubway bikesharing system in Boston

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