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Bike-Sharing: Is Safety an Issue Adversely Affecting its Potential for Being Embraced by Urban Societies? [PDF]

open access: yes
Using bicycles on an ‘as-needed’ basis, usually for a small rental fee and without the externalities and obligations linked to bicycle ownership, is what makes public bicycles a societally affordable medium to enhance the transition to a more sustainable
Michalakopoulos, Nikitas   +2 more
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Studying Solutions of the p-Median Problem for the Location of Public Bike Stations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The use of bicycles as a means of transport is becoming more and more popular today, especially in urban areas, to avoid the disadvantages of individual car traffic.
Alba-Torres, Enrique   +3 more
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Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Factorisation de réseaux temporels : étude des rythmes hebdomadaires du système Vélo'v [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceWe study the Vélo'v system, a fully automated bike-sharing system in Lyon, using a temporal network representation. A decomposition of this network is proposed by using nonnegative matrix factorisation (NMF), whose the choice of ...
Borgnat, Pierre   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Navigating Market Constraints: Sustainable Startups Driving Transformative Change Through Venture Creation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Shared Bicycle Travel Patterns from a Multidimensional Spatiotemporal Interaction Perspective Based on Tensor Decomposition: A Case Study of Central Shenzhen Area

open access: yesRedai dili
Bike-sharing has emerged as a crucial mode of short-distance transportation for urban residents due to its flexibility, convenience, and affordability. This paper analyzes the spatiotemporal data of bike-sharing in the central urban area of Shenzhen to ...
Zheng Jixiang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two-choice regulation in heterogeneous closed networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A heterogeneous closed network with one-server queues with finite capacity and one infinite-server queue is studied. A target application is bike-sharing systems. Heterogeneity is taken into account through clusters whose queues have the same parameters.
Fricker, Christine, Servel, Nicolas
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Bicycle-Sharing System Analysis and Trip Prediction

open access: yes, 2016
Bicycle-sharing systems, which can provide shared bike usage services for the public, have been launched in many big cities. In bicycle-sharing systems, people can borrow and return bikes at any stations in the service region very conveniently. Therefore,
Li, Moyin   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Addressing the Attitude Behaviour Perception Gap—Multimethod Sustainable Tourist Behaviour Evaluation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantitative and perceptual studies have been used to define and model sustainable tourist behaviour in past years, but few studies have undertaken qualitative research of actual behaviour to delve deeper into understanding the different classifications of such behaviour. This research employed a three‐phase design, comprising a pretrip survey,
Rachel Dodds, Mark Robert Holmes
wiley   +1 more source

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