Review Article

A Systematic Review of the Coopetition Relationship between Bike-Sharing and Public Transit

Table 3

Research summary on the impact of bike-sharing on public transit ridership.

Serial numberResearch objectiveResearch methodKey resultsSource

1The impact of bike-sharing’s emergence on bus and rail transit ridership across 273 cities in China from 2004 to 2017The difference-in-difference (DID) model(i) The emergence of bike-sharing decreased bus ridership by 17% in cities across ChinaShi et al. [59]
(ii) The emergence of bike-sharing increased rail ridership by 146% in cities across China

2The influence of bike-sharing ridership on rail transit ridership in Beijing in 2017DID model(i) Every increase of 10,000 in bike-sharing ridership around one metro line increased rail ridership by 10%Fan et al. [8]
(ii) Every increase of 10,000 in bike-sharing ridership connecting to the metro around one metro line increased rail ridership by 16%

3The impact of the advent of bike-sharing on bus use in New York between 2012 and 2014DID model(i) The emergence of bike-sharing weakened bus ridership, with every 1,000 rides resulting in a 1.69% reduction in ridership for each bus routeCampbell and Brakewood [60]

4The influence of the advent of bike-sharing on bus ridership in Chengdu between 2016 and 2017DID model(i) Each shared bike increased bus ridership by 4.23 person-times per day on weekdays at the bus route levelMa et al. [61]
(ii) Each shared bike reduced bus ridership by 0.56 person-times per day on weekends at the bus route level

5The impact of bike-sharing ridership on bus ridership in the area around North Dakota State University in 2015Linear regression model considering error autocorrelation(i) Every 100 bike-sharing rides reduced bus ridership by 44 person-times per dayGodavarthy et al. [62]

6The impact of bike-sharing on rail transit ridership in Washington, D.C., in 2013OLS model(i) Every 10% increase in the number of shared bike rides resulted in a 2.8% increase in metro station ridershipMa et al. [63]

7The impact of a small-scale bike-sharing system on public transit ridership in Tucson in 2019Synthetic control method(i) Every increase of 1 trip in bike-sharing resulted in an increase of 0.55 trips for tramsLi et al. [64]