Author(s)

Boniphace Kutela¹, Nesley Orochena², Hualiang (Harry) Teng³

¹Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, USA.
²Senior Civil Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Phoenix, USA.
³Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

Bike-share systems are an effective way of mitigating congestion on the road. In addition, bike-share systems have been built in universities to serve for trips to work/commuting as well as the trips on campus. In Las Vegas, a bike-share system was proposed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This study analyzed factors that influence the usage of bike-share program and estimated the origin-destination demand. To achieve these objectives, first, a literature review was conducted on university bike-sharing systems in the U.S. and abroad. Then, a survey with a questionnaire was distributed to UNLV to obtain the users’ preferences to the locations of the proposed bike-share stations and their likelihood and frequency to use the bike-share program. In total, 241 faculty, staff, and students responded to the survey. About 50% of those participating in the survey expressed willingness to use the bike-share system for commuting and 60% said they are willing to use bike share for on-campus travel. Commuting and on-campus travel are two different types of travel, and the factors to determine whether an individual would use the bike-share system are quite different for each. It was estimated that there would be 3450 members for a bike-share program at UNLV, each making bicycle trips with varying frequencies, producing 1966 trips per day.

Bike-Share System, Commuting, On-Campus Travel, Ordered Probit Modeling, O-D Estimation

Kutela, B. , Orochena, N. and Teng, H. (2022) Analysis and O-D Demand Estimation of a Public Bike-Sharing Program in Las Vegas. Journal of Transportation Technologies, 12, 172-192. doi: 10.4236/jtts.2022.122011.