Increasing the Share of Daily Bicycle Trips by Creating a Shared Bicycle System (Case Study: Qom City)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Hossein Dehnad 1
sajad Abdi 2
Ali Riazi 3
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Qom University, Qom, Iran.
2 Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Qom University, Qom, Iran.
3 Researcher, Department of Civil Engineering, Qom University, Qom, Iran.
10.22034/road.2024.411463.2191
Abstract
The increasing growth of urbanization has caused traffic congestion and environmental pollution in recent years. One of the ways to deal with this problem is to strengthen active modes of transportation and use shared bicycle systems as an environmentally friendly system. Therefore, in this research, the type and implementation method of the shared bicycle system has been chosen to increase the desire to use bicycles in daily trips within the city. In this research, firstly, citizens' opinions about cycling and its infrastructure have been investigated. For this purpose, the number of 1707 research-oriented questionnaires, of which 974 in the field and 733 in the internet, were distributed among the citizens of Qom. Then, different generations of shared bicycles were investigated and the suitable generation for implementation in Qom city was determined by using the AHP hierarchical analysis method. In the following, the details of the plan, including the scope of implementation, have been determined according to various indicators.
Keywords
Shared Bicycle
AHP Analysis Hierarchy Method
Qom City
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