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Changes of Non-motorized Accessibility of Park Green Spaces with the Popularity of Shared Bicycle: A Case Study in Wuhan Central City China

Shared Bicycle, Park Green Spaces, Non-motorized Accessibility,Wuhan Central City

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Under the background that sharing bicycles has become an important choice for Chinese people's daily trip, their trip to park green spaces (PGSs) has also changed a lot. Taking Wuhan central city as an example, this paper uses the network analysis method on ArcMap 10.3 platform to analyze the walking accessibility and riding accessibility of PGSs respectively, and then compares them on central city scale and subdistrict scale. Subdistrict is the basic unit of public service distribution in China. It is found that on central city scale, the service scope of PGSs has been greatly increased, especially for the non-motorized trip within 15 minutes. Many people who were able to walk to the nearest PGSs within 15 minutes can reach the nearest within 5 minutes by shared bicycle now. On subdistrict scale, there aren’t great changes in over half of subdistricts except 10 subdistricts. The changes are little in subdistricts with lots of PGSs of good accessibility or very poor accessibility. The changes are great in subdistricts with PGSs of poor accessibility itself and many PGSs in their neighbor subdistricts. And in these subdistricts, much more residents who was unable to reach the nearest PGS by walking within 15 minutes can make it by riding now. Finally, reasons are simply explained why these changes are different especially the subdistricts with poor non-motorized accessibility of PGSs and suggestions are given on them.