OPENspace Seminar – Dr Antonio Ross-Perez

In this recording from the OPENspace Research Seminar series at the Edinburgh College of Art, Dr Antonio Ross-Perez discusses bike-sharing strategies across the world.
Empirical agent-based model to simulate bike-sharing deployment strategies
Bike-sharing systems (BSS) have emerged as a new transport service that proliferates in cities worldwide, characterised by their convenience and flexibility. However, their role as a part of the public transport system is ambiguous and, according to literature, biased towards affluent populations with already accessible transport options.
Within this context, and the help of trip data from a now defunct BSS in Manchester, I propose the creation of an empirical agent-based model to explore the effects of deployment decisions. The model has a data-driven approach where the rules and agent’s behaviours are elicited from observed mobility patterns. Relying exclusively on open data sources, my aim is to shed a light on the possibilities of evidence-based transport decisions.
This presentation summarises the work and findings from my PhD where I endeavour to integrate sparse socioeconomic, spatial and transport data for a decision-making tool that highlights the importance of accessible transport resources.
This research seminar by Dr Antonio Ross-Perez for the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) is available under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike4.0 licence.
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