Plan Electric Geofences for Dockless Bike-Sharing
摘要
A new generation of bike-sharing services is emerging in China. With this service, bikes can be unlocked and paid for via a smartphone, and then picked up and left anywhere at users’ convenience. The unprecedented development of dockless bike-sharing services has resulted in considerable socioeconomic and environmental benefits, but also created new urban challenges. One of the most significant issues is users’ inappropriate parking behaviour. To address this problem, electric fence policies and technologies have been introduced in China to guide users in parking bikes within designated zones. In this chapter, we first propose a series of methods to support electric fence planning for dockless bike-sharing services. We then apply these methods in a case study of Shanghai, using a large dataset of bike trips. The results show that when the number of planned electric fences is 7,500, our plan can cover 91.8% of the total parking demand. Additionally, our plan ensures that at least 95.8% of all bikes can be docked at one of the planned electric fences, helping to efficiently and accurately determine the most suitable locations for setting up these fences.