Peng, Xi; (2025) An inquiry into shared dockless bikes as a new urban mobility mode: an exploratory case study of Shanghai and Xi'an, China. Masters thesis (M.Phil), UCL (University College London).

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Dockless bikes are perceived to be one of the key travel modes that can help resolve the daunting problem of urban traffic congestion as well as environmental issues such as carbon emission. The main objective of the study is to analyse riding patterns, especially unruly riding patterns, of dockless bike riders and determine, besides internal reasons such as personal characters, if city “urban mobility system” (UMS) and infrastructure impact the unruly riding and parking violations, using Shanghai and Xi’an as case studies. This research utilizes an exploratory approach because most of the extant literature was based on quantitative user data only and few of the existing studies studied the relationship between dockless bikes and infrastructure as well as UMS in the city. Thus, apart from the big data technique like POI and K-means, this study also employs observational methods to review the influence of different infrastructure conditions on riding and parking misbehaviors, again taking Shanghai and Xi’an as examples. The study concludes that the level of perfection of UMS and infrastructure considerably alleviate dangerous riding and illegal parking behaviors, especially during rush hours, so as the launch of proper rules and regulations.

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