Optimizing Bike Station

Locations In UP Diliman
A GIS Approach to Identifcation of Best Locations for Bike Stations

Cyrus Espiritu | Kache Lagahit

Outline
• Introduction
• Aim of the Study
• Limitations of the Study
• Significance of the Study
• Statement of the Problem
• Framework of the Study
• Review of Related Literature
• Conceptual Framework
• Research Design
• Materials of the Study
• Methods of Analysis
• Profile of the Study Area
• Analysis
• Conclusion and Recommendations
Introduction

• Getting around the 493-hectare UP Diliman (UPD) campus is a daily challenge for many
students, who often travel from one building to another as they go through their classes.
• UP Bike Share, a non-profit advocacy group of undergraduate students, is now providing
free use of 30 red-and-white painted bikes for some 50 dormitory students in UPD as part
of a plan to provide better transportation for the UPD community.
• The group’s aim is to establish a ‘bike-centric’ culture in the campus, hence the main
audience for now are Freshmen, with the hopes that these students will bring the culture
forward and as new Freshmen arrive, the population using bikes will grow.
Statement of the Problem

• The availability of the bike stations that is both accessible and

secure is an issue right now. The study is seeking to answer these
questions:
• Do current bike stations properly serve the general need of the population
of students enrolled in the bike program?
• What other locations within the UP Diliman Campus should there be a bike
station?
• What are the gaps identified in the Bike Share program? How do we address
such gaps?
Aim and Limitation of the Study

• Together with UP Bike Share, the study aims to determine bicycle

locations that would be secure and very accessible to users. The
study looks forward to addressing location-specific problems in the
bike share program to make the program more efficient, low-cost
and would truly promote usage of bicycles as a means of
transportation in the campus.
• The study is limited to understanding the preferences of existing
users of the bike share program in respect to potential bike
stations.
Review of Related Literature

Using GIS to Identify Potential Locations for Bike Rentals in Houston

Area
• The places with medium and high population densities, which were lying
next to the buffer zone and which had bikeways in the vicinity, were chosen
as bike rental locations.
• The places where bikeways exist as well as where the universities/colleges,
parks and libraries locations, which were lying adjacent to the buffer area,
were chosen as potential bike rental locations based on places of
interest/utility.
Review of Related Literature
Safety and Enjoyability Evaluation of Roads and Streets for Bicycles: Case Studies of
Bicycle Maps from Utsuno-miya and Chigasaki, Japan
• Utsonomiya Bicycle Map
• Evaluation Methods for Safety and Enjoyability
• Itemized evaluation approach
• Information layering system
• Chigasaki Bicycle Map
• Evaluation methods used is the itemized checking approach, to realize a more objective evaluation
based from Utsonomiya bicycle map.
• Guidelines in maintaining consistency for the evaluation checkpoints
• Systematically design items to be evaluated
• Make points specifically detailed
• Design is based on Utsonomiya Bicycle Map focusing on calling attention to safety
• Chigasaki evaluation methodology allows maps to be modified to fit actual conditions of
a target city and help grasp the entire city street network’s safety and enjoyability from
the viewpoint of the cyclist.
• Utsunomiya’s layering methodology can display the safety and enjoyability information
of streets, with a rich set of contents
Review of Related Literature
Optimizing The Location of Stations in Bike Sharing Programs: A GIS
Approach
• Distibution of potential demand – city center has more attracted trips than
generated ones. The sum of the potential demand from generated and attracted trip
gives the total potential trip demand
• Station Location – a greater amount of demand covered at a suitable distance for
pedestrian trips to stations (200m) is found with the maximize coverage solutions.
Methodology and Data Collection

• The research is a mix of qualitative and quantitative study where

data obtained will be from surveys of existing UP Bike Share
program users to determine best possible bicycle station locations
• Key Informant interviews with UP Bike Share’s Head of Operations
Ryan Abis and President Miguel Laperal to identify gaps and
nuances of the program
Conceptual Framework
Identifying Existing
Bike Stations
Review of Accesibility and Usefullness of
Existing Bike Stations

Current Users Survey on Preference

Preferred Bike Locations

Feasibility Study of New Locations

Physical, Social, Economic and Instiutional Barriers

Identify Gaps in the Program

Proposed New Bike

Station Locations Propose Solutions to Gaps
Profile of the Study Area

Area Coverage
• The University of the Philippines – Diliman Campus is a 493-hectare
land in Quezon City that is generally flat, which consists of
elevation levels of 40 – 60 meters above sea level.
• The campus is home to 27 degree-granting institutions offering 376
academic programs. There are more than 2,000 faculty handling
classes for almost 24,000 students. There are faculty and non-
faculty residents staying in the designated housing areas of the
campus.
Profile of the Study Area
Profile of the Study Area

• UP Bike Share consists of 24 mostly undergraduate students from the

colleges of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts.
• The group pooled their resources and purchased 10 surplus Japanese bikes
and solicited 20 more from corporate sponsors to begin their project.
• UP Bike Share began in Aug. 8, with 50 pre-signed dormitory students
given access to the bikes.
• The UP Bike Share joined this year’s APEC Accelerator Network and Global
Summit held in Taipei, Taiwan.
• UP Bike Share’s aim is to provide the student body an affordable and
accessible form of public transportation by adding adequate technology in
the form of tracking systems to determine bike location, via
triangulization detected by stationary nodes. These covers about 2kms in
radius and has low overhead cost to produce.
Existing Bike Stations

• Locations of Existing Bike

Stations are:
• College of Human Kinetics
• Kalayaan Residence Hall
• Molave Residence Hall
• Palma Hall
• National Institute of
Molecular Biology and
Biotechnology
• Math Building
Survey – Current Users

• A survey was conducted on current participants of the UP Bike

Share program to understand their preferences in using bikes as a
means of transportation within the campus.
• The survey covers questions on frequency of bike usage, length
and duration of rides, proximity of bike stations from user’s origin,
and availability of bikes at a given time.
Survey Results : Bike Usage

Bike Usage • Usage was only limited

to 1-2 days a week for
12

10
10 majority of the
8 participants
6

4
4

1 0 0
0

Frequency of Bike Usage

Survey Results: Availability

Bike Unavailability • This can attribute to

7
successful uses
6
6 6 because several
5 attempts were made
4 to use the bike, but
3 came up with no
2
3
available bicycle to
1
use
0
0

Unavailable Bikes Encountered

 Survey Results: Time vs Location
Time with Unavailable Bikes Bike Stations with Unavailable Bikes
6 10
9
5 8 9
5 5 5
7
4
4 6
3 5
4
2 3
2 3
1 1 2 2 2
1 1 1 1 1
0
0

Time with Unavailable Bikes Bike stations with unavailable bikes

• Looking further, timing is a bigger drainer than location that causes

unavailability of bicycles for use
 Survey Results: Proximity of Bike Stations

Physical Features close to Bike Stations • Respondents were

80 asked to rank physical
70 features that they think
is important in
72
70
65
60
determining where bike
stations are located
56
50

40
• Public Transport Stops
30 32
and Parking lots are the
top 2, indicating that
the bike share program
20
20

10
can me used in a inter-
0 modal transport system
in the campus
Public transit stops Bike facilities Food establishments School buildings Parking lots Dormitories

Physical Features
Survey Results: Preferences for Additional Bike Stations
Gaps identified in the Program
Identified Gaps Proposed Solutions Concerned Body
Management and Administration
Formalize Bike Sharing in the Campus; refer to the UP
Diliman Master Plan
Lack of Support from the University Institutional
Work with OVCPD for University accreditation
Increase awareness through branding campaigns using
Low Awareness Social
social media, word of mouth and advertising on the fly.
Use of business development strategies for partnerships with
corporations
Funding for Maintenance and Transportation Economic/Institutional
With accreditation from the University, seek financial support
for maintenance costs.
Operations
For further study, look at ranking of stations according to
Bike Availability is an issue at Certain Locations need to identify Service Levels to form strategies in Infrastructure
addressing availability
Road Inventory & Safety
Propose a Bike Network Management Program to the
University
No Bike Lanes in the Campus Infrastructure/Institutional
Work with the university to identify and build bike lanes if
necessary
Propose a Bike Network Management Program to the
University
Bike Stations are not secured enough Infrastructure/Institutional
Work with the university to identify and build bike lanes if
necessary
Recommendation

• Proposed Locations
• Vinzon’s Hall
• College of Arts and
Letters
• Shopping Center
• Main Library
• College of Mass
Communication
• Buffer at 100
meters, considering
size of UP and how
far each building is
For Further Studies

• Station specific characterization and service levels to answer

intraday needs of bike users per station
• Efficient Bike Transport Network Program for the Campus
• Further development of Bike locators through triangulation
• Feasibility to expand the base of operations to the whole
community