The Development of Generalized Public Bicycles in China and Its Role in the Urban Transportation System

Public bicycle service has experienced 15 years of development in Chinese cities,and China's Mainland is the world's largest public bicycle market.Choosing to use public bicycles is becoming more and more a daily habit of residents.Broadly speaking,public bicycles in Chinese cities include both public bikes with service stations and shared bicycles without service stations.Based on historical review and years of accumulated data,this paper reviews the development of general public bicycles in Chinese cities in the past 15 years.And the role of general public bicycles in China’s urban transportation system is analyzed.Finally,from the perspective of urban construction and management,some suggestions for the future development of public bicycles are put forward.

Simultaneous optimization of transit network and public bicycle station network

The traditional manner to design public transportation system is to sequentially design the transit network and public bicycle network. A new public transportation system design problem that simultaneously considers both bus network design and public bicycle network design is proposed. The chemical reaction optimization(CRO) is designed to solve the problem. A shortcoming of CRO is that, when the two-molecule collisions take place, the molecules are randomly picked from the container.Hence, we improve CRO by employing different mating strategies. The computational results confirm the benefits of the mating strategies. Numerical experiments are conducted on the Sioux-Falls network. A comparison with the traditional sequential modeling framework indicates that the proposed approach has a better performance and is more robust. The practical applicability of the approach is proved by employing a real size network.

Public Bicycle Operating System Based on Space-Time Security and the Internet of Things

The bad behaviors of some users and the drawbacks of public bicycles have hindered the promotion of public bicycles. The current problems include low utilization rate, uneven distribution, high loss rate and insecure lock. However, there is few feasible research in this new field. To address these issues of public bicycles, we propose a public bicycle operating system（PBOS）. PBOS involves three key technologies： 1） To acquire a dynamic password and realize bicycle self-rescue, we devise an intelligent lock that utilizes the Internet of Things（IoT） to establish Bluetooth connection with user＇s mobile phone. 2） To avoid bicycle loss and improve the security of data transmission, we design a space-time security protocol to work between bicycle＇s intelligent lock, mobile app, and server. 3） To increase the average utilization rate and distribution, we present a cooperative game model for bicycle scheduling. Finally, we evaluate the performance and validate the theoretical properties of PBOS through extensive simulations.