Abstract
Bike-sharing systems allow occasional and regular users to move by
replacing other transport modes for the same trip or generating a new
journey. Our research assesses the demand for Lisbon’s public dock-based
bike-sharing system (BSS) users named after GIRA. This paper aims to
identify the determinant factors that influence the potential of the BSS
to generate new trips or replace previous modes using a binary logit
model based on a survey of 3112 BSS users. The survey results indicate
that GIRA generated approximately 20% of the BSS trips, i.e., they
would not have been realized if GIRA did not exist. The remaining BSS
trips replaced other motorized (55%) and non-motorized (25%) trips.
The main determinants explaining a higher likelihood of replacing other
modes are having a yearly GIRA pass and a bike-sharing station within a
5-min walking distance. In contrast, regular car users are more likely
to generate new trips, suggesting they use bike-sharing for recreational
purposes. The findings provide policymakers with an assessment of the
determinants that can influence bike-sharing users to generate or
substitute trips from other modes for bike-sharing and, consequently,
give policies to potentially increase bike-sharing mobility share.