Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme

Lucy Doyle; Aleksandar Novakovic; Adele H. Marshall; Darren Cheung

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2394-4_51

Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme

Lucy Doyle^*, Aleksandar Novakovic, Adele H. Marshall, Darren Cheung

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mathematics and Physics

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the connectivity and mobility of Northern Irish residents to a halt forcing the bike hiring service Belfast Bikes to cease operations. After reintroducing the service in Summer 2020, the usage of the bike hiring service was severely impacted. This paper investigates the usage of Belfast Bikes pre-pandemic and during the pandemic. Research includes how consumer trends for Belfast Bikes customers changed due to the pandemic and predictive modelling is used to predict whether customers hire a Belfast Bike for direct travel from stations or for an indirect, leisurely trip. We will conclude how the connectivity and mobility of Belfast residents have changed due to the pandemic and provide recommendations for Belfast Bikes and Belfast City to recover after the pandemic.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022
Editors	Xin-She Yang, Simon Sherratt, Nilanjan Dey, Amit Joshi
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	559-572
Number of pages	14
Volume	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811923944
ISBN (Print)	9789811923937
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2394-4_51
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2022
Event	7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 21 Feb 2022 → 24 Feb 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	464
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	21/02/2022 → 24/02/2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors wish to acknowledge Allstate for proposing the challenge and for their valuable feedback throughout the project and Queen’s University Belfast for funding and academic guidance and supervision.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Keywords

Belfast Bikes
Bike sharing prediction
COVID-19
Trip classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

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Doyle, L., Novakovic, A., Marshall, A. H., & Cheung, D. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme. In X.-S. Yang, S. Sherratt, N. Dey, & A. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022 (Vol. 3, pp. 559-572). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 464). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2394-4_51

Doyle, Lucy ; Novakovic, Aleksandar ; Marshall, Adele H. et al. / Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme. Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022. editor / Xin-She Yang ; Simon Sherratt ; Nilanjan Dey ; Amit Joshi. Vol. 3 Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 559-572 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Doyle, L, Novakovic, A , Marshall, AH & Cheung, D 2022, Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme. in X-S Yang, S Sherratt, N Dey & A Joshi (eds), Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022. vol. 3, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 464, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 559-572, 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022, Virtual, Online, 21/02/2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2394-4_51

Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme. / Doyle, Lucy; Novakovic, Aleksandar ; Marshall, Adele H. et al.
Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2022. ed. / Xin-She Yang; Simon Sherratt; Nilanjan Dey; Amit Joshi. Vol. 3 Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 559-572 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 464).

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Impact of COVID-19 on the Belfast Bike Sharing Scheme

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