Retail Gravitation and Economic Impact: A Market-Driven Analytical Framework for Bike Share Station Location Analysis in the United States

Author(s)

Thomas Wuerzer, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Susan G. Mason

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

ISSN

1556-8318

Publication Date

2014

Abstract/Excerpt

Bike-share programs are becoming a more frequent and popular amenity for cities around the world. Current analytical models for optimizing the placement and location of bike-share stations seem underdeveloped and potentially subject to false calibration errors. This research builds on retail gravitation models and their derivates to develop a duplicable model for bike-share location in cities in the United States. The findings suggest retail gravitation theory is helpful to bike-share station location analysis. Additionally, the findings set a framework for other cities to use as well as identify future research.

DOI

10.1080/15568318.2014.897403

Volume

10

Issue

3

First Page

247

Last Page

259

NSUWorks Citation

Wuerzer, Thomas and Mason, Susan G., "Retail Gravitation and Economic Impact: A Market-Driven Analytical Framework for Bike Share Station Location Analysis in the United States" (2014). HCBE Faculty Articles. 638.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/638