Optimal Placement of the Bike Rental Stations and Their Capacities in Olomouc - Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation - page 50

Optimal Placement of the Bike Rental
Stations and Their Capacities in Olomouc

Zdena Dobe ov and Radek H bner

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Abstract Several towns over the whole world run the network of the station for
rent a bike for municipal transport. The town Olomouc has good condition for bike
transport. The town is

flat, and private transport by bike is very often. There is the
opportunity to prepare the network of bike rental station. The rent out the bike is
assumed for daily transport of inhabitants or tourists and visitors. The presented
study shows the analysis of optimal placement of the rental station in Olomouc. The
spatial analysis is based on data about street lines, cycling lines and numbers of
inhabitants and others. Extension Network Analyst for ArcGIS was used for
location and allocation analyses. Moreover, the suggestion of capacities (number of
position for bikes) for each station was calculated. The result is two variants for 3
and 4 min walking time to the rental station.

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Keywords Rental station Cycling Location analysis Allocation analysis

1 Introduction

Valencia, Santander, Seville, Barcelona, London, Dublin, Lyon, Paris, Marseille,
Luxembourg, Wien and many other cities have the bicycle renting public service.
Bike-sharing is becoming more and more frequent mean of transport in the Euro-
pean and World cities. Cycling supplements the public transport in a good way in
towns. Cycling fill the gap between walking that is very slow and public transport.

In case of traf c jam, the cycling is the quickest way of transport.