Abstract
Public bike sharing systems (BSS) comprises fleets of bicycles available for shared use at a low cost. BSS are gaining popularity as an environmentally friendly mode of transportation; however, their design entails critical decisions to transportation planners and public authorities. The objective of this study was to design a BSS for a large Mexican city taking into account the available budget, the fulfillment of a desired percentage of the predicted demand, the integration of the BSS with the existent public transportation network and the potential environmental benefit of substituting motorized transportation by cycling. A bi-objective optimization model with two objectives -minimize the total cost of the system’s implementation and maximize the reduction of CO2 emissions- is formulated and solved to determine the optimal location of bike stations and size of the bicycle fleet required to attain a specific level of service. The analysis of the non-dominated solutions to the problem allows the identification of alternative designs that enhance the BSS’ level of service and its contribution to air quality, provided municipal authorities are willing to make tradeoffs between the two objectives and approve a larger investment.
© 2018, Facultad de Contaduría y Administración, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. All rights reserved. Publication of the article implies full assignment of property rights (copyright) in Journal of Contaduría y Administración. The publication mreserves the right to total or partial reproduction of the work in other print, electronic or any other alternative means, but always recognizing its responsibility.
License for Published Content
Unless otherwise stated, all contents of the electronic edition of the journal are distributed under a license and distribution "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International" (CC-by). You can see from here the version of the license information. This circumstance must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.
Metadata License
The metadata of papers published by Contaduría y Administración are in the public domain, through the publisher's waiver of all rights to the work under copyright law worldwide, including all rights and related rights, to the extent permitted by law. You may copy, modify, and distribute the metadata, even for commercial purposes, without requesting permission.
