Posts tagged cycling
‘Hubs, van belofte naar werkelijkheid’
Zijn hubs dé toekomst in de mobiliteit? Is het wel echt zo’n slimme oplossing zoals we de laatste tijd vaak horen, of is het eigenlijk alleen maar een hype? Hierover schreven Iris van Gerrevink, Roderick Tingen, Kees van Son (AT Osborne) en Niels van Oort (TU Delft) recent een artikel voor VNG Magazine en een vierdelige blogserie. Iedere blog focust op een ander type hub en geeft aanbevelingen aan beleidsmakers over hoe ze kunnen werken aan het waarmaken van de beloftes:
Artikel in VNG Magazine: “De Hubtopie”
Deel 1 door Iris van Gerrevink: Komt de hub in de buurt?
Deel 2 door Roderick Tingen: De boer op met de hub
Deel 3 door Kees van Son: De logistieke hub tegen een lading met lucht
Deel 4 door Niels van Oort: Google wat is een hub?
Insights into the bicycle-train combination: welcome on board!
The bicycle as an access and egress mode to and from train stations offers multiple (societal) benefits. A recent study shows that > 60% of the Dutch population who use the combined mode, actually do have the availability of a car, but experience more benefits by using the bicycle+train combination. International studies show that the introduction of shared bicycle systems enabled a shift from car up to 20%. A strong relation with public transport was recommended.
Next to the benefits for the passenger, societal benefits are also widely, namely regarding accessibility, health, safety and sustainability. To conclude, good access and egress facilities also enable to improve the efficiency and quality of public transport networks.
However, good implementation requires attention to up to 40 factors, ranging to safe cycling routes, user characteristics and related preferences and quality of public transport and competing modes. To learn about these and overcome the barriers, we discuss multiple aspects of the combination in detail.
Find the presentation at the European Transport Conference HERE
Find our blog HERE
The future of public transport in the era of emerging modes
Due to societal and technological trends and developments, new modes (will) emerge. In this workshop at the Urbanism Next Europe conference, Maaike Snelder (TNO/TU Delft), Maria Alonso-Gonzalez (KiM) and Niels van Oort (TUDelft) shared their research findings about on-demand pooled services, autonomous shuttles and share bicycles and discussed about their contribution to the future of public transport.
Find the presentations, including references, here:
Smart Public Transport Lab onderzoek in OV Magazine
Sinds 2019 heeft OV Magazine een rubriek met onderzoeksresultaten uit het Smart Public Transport Lab (studenten en onderzoekers). Hieronder de artikelen en onderwerpen:
Goede bereikbaarheid voor ouderen: Dichtbij of nog ver weg? (2024)
Wat is de deelfiets-OV combinatie eigenlijk waard? (2024)
De route naar de hoogwaardige bus (2024)
Ook buiten de stad met OV-fiets combinatie (2024)
De deelautogebruiker bestaat niet (2023)
Een balans tussen meer en minder haltes (2023)
Verduurzaming regionaal spoor (2023)
Potentie voor Belgische nachttrein (2023)
Robuuste voorspellingen rijtijden (2023)
Covid impact op treingebruik (2022)
Gaan deelsteps Nederland veroveren? (2021)
Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) (2021)
Nieuwe vervoersmiddelen voor de last mile (2021)
Modal shift door HTM Fiets (2020)
Interesse werknemers in gebruik MaaS (2020)
Wil de reiziger bus of tram? (2020)
Verwachtingen gebruik nieuwe vervoersmiddelen van en naar het station (2019)
Druktebeleving in de tram (2019)
Workshop Future of Public Transport @Forum ISTS
Due to societal and technological trends, our mobility system and patterns might change. New modes are entering (and leaving) the market, while conventional modes are improved. In this workshop we looked to the future of public transport from the perspective of authorities and operators. The city of The Hague and the Dutch railways (NS) shared their visions on the public transport of the future.
Find the general workshop presentation HERE
Find the presentation of Emile Jutten (City of The Hague) on the national and regional vision on public transport HERE and an animation of the vision HERE
Find the presentation of Mark Oldenziel (NS) on the short term innovations and plans of the railways HERE and an animation of the vision HERE
Travellers’ preferences towards existing and emerging means of access/egress transport
This research elaborates on access/egress transport in further detail and aims to provide insights in the preferences of travellers for existing and new means of access/egress transport such as shared vehicles and on-demand ride services. In this research, a stated preference experiment was performed with Dutch train travellers. In addition to the modal preferences, the expected impacts on land use near train station were assessed.
Find the ETC presentation of Bas Stam HERE
Overview Bicycle+Transit research
Download the poster HERE
References:
Shelat et al.(2018), Characteristics bicycle and transit users
Van Mil et al.(2020), Factors affecting the bicycle and transit mode
Arendsen et al. (2019), Shared mobility for the first and last mile
Rijsman et al. (2019), Walking and bicycle catchment areas of tram stops: factors and insights
Podcast: Bicycle+transit mode
The bicycle+transit combination has been a growing mode for years now. It could offer the best of both worlds, if it is well designed with an integrated perspective. In this Dutch Cycling Embassy podcast with Geert Kloppenburg and Chris Bruntlet, we discuss about the opportunities and challenges regarding shared bicycle systems.
Find the podcast here:
Podcast Bicycle+Transit
Find the related references here:
Insights and overview research findings (lecture slides; Van Oort, 2020)
Shelat et al.(2017); Characteristics bicycle and transit users
Van Mil et al.(2020); Factors affecting the bicycle and transit mode
Understanding the Modal Shift in Response to Bike-sharing Systems in the City of Delft
The introduction of bike-sharing systems has revitalized cycling in many cities around the world. In general, the bike-sharing systems operated worldwide can be divided into two categories: docked bike-sharing and dockless bike-sharing. In the docked bike-sharing system, users have to rent bicycles from designated docking stations and then return them to the available lockers in the docking stations. The dockless bike-sharing system is designed to provide more freedom and flexibility to travellers in terms of bicycle accessibility. In contrast to docked bike-sharing, riders are free to leave bicycles in both physical and geo-fencing designated parking areas provided in public space with or without bicycle racks.
As a greener travel mode, bike-sharing is competitive in short distance travel and people who have long commuting distance are more likely to choose public transit integration with it. Previous research has shown that bike-sharing reduces car and taxi useage and increases cycling in almost every city. Bike-sharing system has been shown to reduce trip demand of public transportation including train, metro and bus.
In Delft as a student city in the Netherlands, cycling is seen as the most important mode of transport within the city. There exist three different bike-sharing schemes in operations, including OV-fiets, Mobike and Swapfiets. OV-fiets was introduced in the Netherlands in 2003 [4]. The bicycles should always be brought back to the location where the rental started. At this moment, there are almost 300 rental locations consisting of 20500 bicycles. Mobike is a dockless bike-sharing service and is more flexible than the existing docked bike-sharing alternative. Mobike extended the operations to Delft in March 2018 with a focus on the university campus. Swapfiets, launched in 2014, is a bicycle-rental system on a subscription basis, can be used for regular private trips. Now it has over 50,000 customers in 38 cities in Europe. The coexistence of different bike-sharing schemes in Delft enables this city to be a test bed for bike-sharing research.
This paper aims to understand the modal shift dynamics and the factors influence travellers’ choices in response to different bike-sharing systems by conducting a survey targeting OV-fiets users, Mobike users and Swapfiets users and private-bike users.
Find the CRB presentation and abstract of Xinwei Ma: Presentation and ABSTRACT
Ridership impacts of the introduction of a dockless bike-sharing scheme, a data-driven case study
In recent years, growing concerns over climate change, pollution, congestion and unhealthy lifestyles have contributed to increasing attention to sustainable transport modes such as cycling in general and more particularly the bicycle-transit combination. As part of the policy to promote cycling, bike-sharing programs were introduced in the past decades. The development of smart bicycle locks in combination with the possibilities of smartphones, made a new type of bike-sharing possible, in literature known as dockless, free-floating or fourth generation bike-sharing. In the new dockless, model, users are able to start and end their trip at their origin and destination without having to find a nearby docking station. Compared with traditional bike-sharing programs, dockless bike-sharing systems integrate mobile payment and global positioning system (GPS) tracking into the system; these features greatly increase the ease of use and management of the system.
This paper is set up around a pilot implementation of the dockless bike-sharing system of Mobike in Delft, the Netherlands. Our research deals with what can be learned from this pilot and analyzing the critical success factors for a sustainable bike-sharing system based on the data of the Delft Mobike pilot. The focus of this paper is on the combined bicycle and transit mode. This research is based on an experimental method for collecting operational data from the bikesharing system, being the first research based on trip data of a dockless bike-sharing system in Western Europe.
Find the Cycling Research Board abstract and presentation of Sven Boor: Presentation and ABSTRACT