Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End...
by Fishkins on Friday August 29, 2014 @05:23PM
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Exactly. If this were implemented, it would affect me one of two ways*
1) The cost variation would be small enough that I'd ignore it.
2) The cost would sometimes be high enough to dissuade me from taking a bike where I wanted to go, in which case I would quit the program completely. I don't want to have to change my travel plans at the last minute.
Even if the extra cost were non-trivial but acceptable, the mental overhead of having to decide whether it's worth it would make the program much less appealing.
* If I were actually participating in a bike share program. Currently I own my own bike, but I could see using a bike share program in the future.
1) The cost variation would be small enough that I'd ignore it.
2) The cost would sometimes be high enough to dissuade me from taking a bike where I wanted to go, in which case I would quit the program completely. I don't want to have to change my travel plans at the last minute. Even if the extra cost were non-trivial but acceptable, the mental overhead of having to decide whether it's worth it would make the program much less appealing.
* If I were actually participating in a bike share program. Currently I own my own bike, but I could see using a bike share program in the future.