The study of Coopetition between Public Bus and Bike Sharing based on Environmental Protection

Abstract

Recently, the traditional travel modes and public transportation system in urban areas have undergone some subtle changes under the impact of shared bikes, especially for public bus, which is the most impacted by the shared bikes. Therefore, this paper mainly aims at studying the impact of shared bicycles on the public bus from both competitive and cooperative perspectives. More specifically, this study will explore the coopetition relationship between these two modes from travellers' behaviour perspective. An SP survey has been conducted on traveller in Beijing and a Multinomial Logit model was adopted to quantitatively analyse the effect of various factors on travellers' modal choice between bus and shared bikes. In this study, the estimation results show that the travel distance, road infrastructure, and travelers' psychological factors all suggest a competition between bus and bike sharing. On the contrary, distance between bus transfer stations will also lead to modal cooperation. Finally, some policy implications have been proposed to better facilitate public transports and promote the sustainable development of whole urban transport system.