2025 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 19-23
Public bicycle sharing schemes are installed in cities around the world. While the flexibility of the system allowing for one-way and short-distance uses opens the door for combined uses with other modes of public transport, research on such uses are limited. Using data from the Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation, we have created a web-based application “Cycle Shortcut: Beat the Winding Rails” which explored the potential of such rail-shared cycle combined trips in the Greater Tokyo area through rail-cycle combined route-finding, isochrone visualizations, and mapping areas with high cycling potential using network analytical methodologies. The application revealed patterns for stations and areas where cycling can be actively integrated, aiming to reconstruct the transport network-based spatial recognition of the city and potentially transform people’s transportation and cycling behavior.
