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

ORCID

Thomas Wuerzer0000-0002-8290-3785

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

https://doi.org/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