Implementing station-based bike-sharing in strategic transport models

Creating an approach to combine tour-based mode-choice and modelling multimodality

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

N.R. van der Heide Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Contributors

N. van Oort Transport and Planning - CEG (supervisor 1)
A.J. Pel Transport and Planning - CEG (supervisor 1)
Henk Taale Transport and Planning - CEG (supervisor 1)
J.T. van Essen Discrete Mathematics and Optimization - EEMCS (supervisor 1)
Guus Tamminga Sweco (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Civil Engineering & Geosciences
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Published Date

06-07-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Abstract

This study researches how station-based bike-sharing can be implemented in strategic transport models. Implementing station-based bike-sharing is a challenging topic, as it requires to combine two modelling techniques. The first is modelling transport tours to make sure that a person who rents a bike returns the bike to the same station. The second challenge is to model multimodality, because shared-bike are always used in combination with other modes. The most prevalent approach on the market to combine the topics is the two-step mode-choice approach. However, the two-step mode choice approach has three important limitations to model SB-bike-sharing. Therefore a new approach is proposed in this study; “The tour-based mode-chain and station choice approach”. Based on a small-scale theoretical case-study the new method gives promising results regarding modelling the combination of tour-based-mode-choice and multimodality.