The Role of Bikesharing as the Last-mile Service of Public Transportation from an OD Pair Perspective

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This paper aims to investigate the number of transfers between bikesharing and public transportation systems from an OD pair perspective by regressing transfer transactions of OD pairs on the public and private transportation, land use, and socioeconomic variables of origin and destination bikesharing stations as well as the characteristics of OD pairs. A case study on Taipei metropolitan, YouBike system, shows that income has the largest elasticity, followed by riding distance and ridership MRB, suggesting that to strengthen the role of bikesharing feeder service, bikesharing stations should be located as close to public transportation stations as possible. For the short and popular bikesharing OD pairs, more bikes should be kept available for rental at bikesharing stations and bike lane is preferred to enhance the safety and efficiency of bike riding.