Virginia Tech survey provides a picture of the racial distribution of dockless bike users (Virginia Tech)The Capital Bikeshare users are a little more white. Similar to Capital Bikeshare, the majority of dockless bike riders are white, but the Virginia Tech survey found that the second-largest ethnic group of dockless bike riders are black, a distinction with Capital Bikeshare data that shows African Americans are the fourth-largest user group. A larger proportion of dockless bike riders earn less than $35,000 a year as compared to Capital Bikeshare riders. In addition, the proportion of riders over the age of 55 was much larger for Capital Bikeshare at 11 percent than dockless bikeshare at only 2 percent. “Our data suggest that more people of color and women are using dockless bikes than [Capital Bikeshare] on a proportional basis.

Source: Washington Post June 02, 2018 13:01 UTC