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Factors influencing docked bike-sharing usage in the City of Kigali, Rwanda

open access: yesTransport Economics and Management
Over the past years, bike-sharing programs have evolved and passed through various developmental stages since 1965, becoming a significant part of urban mobility worldwide.
Jean Marie Vianney Ntamwiza   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of the entries by bike-sharing platforms on urban air quality

open access: yesChina Economic Quarterly International, 2023
We study the effects of bike-sharing usage on urban air quality in China. Our Difference-in-Differences strategy exploits the staggered entries by two leading bike-sharing companies, ofo and Mobike, and utilizes city-day panel data.
Guangyu Cao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

SOLUTION TO FLEET SIZE OF DOCKLESS BIKE-SHARING STATION BASED ON MATRIX ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018
Aiming at the problems of the lack of reasonable judgment of fleet size and non-optimization of rebalancing for dockless bike-sharing station, based on the usage characteristics of dockless bike-sharing, this paper demonstrates that the Markov chain is ...
Y. Zhai, J. Liu, J. Du, J. Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of LoRa for Bike-Sharing Systems [PDF]

open access: yes2019 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE), 2019
Today bike sharing systems are becoming popular in many cities as short-distance transit vehicles. More than 18 million bicycles are available worldwide for public use and one of the main problems that afflicts such sharing systems is the loss of bikes, which can be stolen or simply left in unknown locations.
Daniele Croce   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Endoscopic Repair of Traumatic Skull Base Dural Injuries: Challenging the Dogma of Conservative Management

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Traditional management of traumatic skull base dural injury has often favored observation and conservative therapy, despite the risk of delayed intracranial complications. This paradigm originated when operative intervention required craniotomy and carried significant morbidity.
Jessica W. Grayson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust Optimization Model Based on a Static Rebalancing Design for Bike- Sharing Systems Affected by Demand Uncertainty

open access: yesIEEE Access
Demand uncertainty and variations in user rental-return behavior can lead to an uneven spatial distribution of bicycles, which forces bike-sharing operators to rebalance the bike-sharing system by relocating bicycles from overstocked to understocked ...
Lijun Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bike-sharing as a possibility to support Vision Zero

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Cyclists as unprotected road users are one of the most vulnerable groups of travelers. In order to improve their safety, various activities are carried out.
Turoń Katarzyna, Sierpiński Grzegorz
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of Smart Configuration in Pedelec-Sharing: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Madrid

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2017
Despite the recently increasing research interest, this is one of the first studies employing a panel sample of users and nonusers to understand the bike-sharing phenomenon (N=205). On the basis of a novel surveying technique, a case study on the clients
András Munkácsy, Andrés Monzón
doaj   +1 more source

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