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Overall Bike Effectiveness As a Sustainability Metric for Bike Sharing Systems sustainability Article Overall Bike Effectiveness as a Sustainability Metric for Bike Sharing Systems Bernardo Nugroho Yahya Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 81-Oedae-ro, Mohyeon-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do 17035, Korea; [email protected]; Tel.: +82-31-330-4941 Received: 29 September 2017; Accepted: 4 November 2017; Published: 14 November 2017 Abstract: Bike sharing systems (BSS) have been widely accepted as an urban transport scheme in many cities around the world. The concept is recently expanded and followed by many cities to offer citizen a “green” and flexible transportation scheme in urban areas. Many works focus on the issues of bike availability while the bike performance, i.e., life cycle issues and its sustainability, for better management has been abandoned. As a consequence, mismanagement of BSS would lead to cost inefficiency and, the worst case, end with operation termination. This study proposes a design science approach by developing an Overall Bike Effectiveness (OBE) framework. By incorporating the concept of overall equipment analysis (OEE), the proposed framework is used to measure the bike utilization. Accordingly, the OBE is extended into Theoretical OBE to measure the sustainability of the early-stage of BSS. The framework has been verified and evaluated using a real dataset of BSS. The proposed method provides valuable results for benchmarking, life cycle analysis, system expansion and strategy planning toward sustainability. The paper concludes with a discussion to show the impact of the proposed approach into the real practices of BSS including an outlook toward sustainability of BSS. Keywords: bike sharing system; overall bike effectiveness; sustainability 1. Introduction Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Improvement Program has emerged in many parts of the world. One of the most sustainable urban transport modes is bike sharing system (BSS) which has been increasing since the first implementation in the 1960s [1]. There are approximately 500 bike sharing programs set up in about 50 countries with more than 700 cities and operating schemes involving a total of more than 800,000 bikes and 37,000 stations [2–4]. Many cities have a huge interest to establish similar programs for supporting the green city concept. Green city concept is a paradigm to implement sustainable urban development which dedicated toward eco-friendly living such as lifestyle with low emissions [5]. As a matter of fact, the adoption of BSS had failed in some cities due to various issues such as lack of financial supports, low citizen participation, poor infrastructure, vandalism, theft and other matters that hinder the sustainability of the bike sharing program [4,6–8]. BSS is a dynamic system which highly depends on the operators. As illustrated in Figure1, BSS providers have included governments, quasi-governmental transport agencies, universities, non-profits, advertising companies and for-profits [9]. While the for-profits operate by a private company with limited or no government involvement (e.g., NextBike), the government model is located in the opposite direction (e.g., Bicibur). The model expresses that operators would affect the operational factors. For example, private sectors of BSS are likely to have more services than the public sectors since it runs with the intention of making a profit. Failure examples exist and cause anxieties on the new establishment of similar programs regardless the operators. For example, the operation termination of bike-share Helsinki in 2010, which then returned in operation in 2016 [10] Sustainability 2017, 9, 2070; doi:10.3390/su9112070 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Sustainability 2017, 9, 2070 2 of 28 Sustainability 2017, 9, 2070 2 of 27 and Argonne National Laboratory are some of the cases of [11]. To overcome such worries, many operators have deployed a standard of efficiency-related performance measures such as daily usage bike-share operators have deployed a standard of efficiency-related performance measures such as and density. Daily usage refers to the number of trips per bike per day while density denotes as the daily usage and density. Daily usage refers to the number of trips per bike per day while density station density and population density in the region as the coverage area. For example, the denotes as the station density and population density in the region as the coverage area. For example, sustainability of such program in most other schemes internationally has been reported that the usage the sustainability of such program in most other schemes internationally has been reported that rates ranged between 3 and 6 trips per bike per day [12]. CitiBike cited that each bike is ridden 8.3 the usage rates ranged between 3 and 6 trips per bike per day [12]. CitiBike cited that each bike is times a day with 6.7 daily trips per bike [13] and Copenhagen’s Bycyklen has only been used 0.8 times ridden 8.3 times a day with 6.7 daily trips per bike [13] and Copenhagen’s Bycyklen has only been a day by tourists and failed to comply with the operational costs [14]. For the density, Institute for used 0.8 times a day by tourists and failed to comply with the operational costs [14]. For the density, Transportation & Development Policy has set an essential planning and design guideline with station Institute for Transportation & Development Policy has set an essential planning and design guideline density are 10–16 stations per km2 and population density is 10–30 bikes for every 1000 residents [15]. with station density are 10–16 stations per km2 and population density is 10–30 bikes for every Although the frequency-based and density-based measures are generally used to describe the 1000 residents [15]. Although the frequency-based and density-based measures are generally used to productivity in the BSS, it sometimes fails to measure the sustainability of BSS. describe the productivity in the BSS, it sometimes fails to measure the sustainability of BSS. Bike-Sharing Models of provision University Non-profit Government Transport Agency Advertising For (Foundation or (quasi- Company profit governmental) Advocacy Group) Cambridge, DBRent’s Call a U. 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