Public policy for successful bike share: Does city size matter? Tartu, Estonia vs. Helsinki, Finland

This research aims to explore the implications of population size on public policy for bike share via a rigorous comparison of the strongly performing bike share systems of two cities with notably varying population sizes: Tartu, Estonia (pop. 93 000) and Helsinki, Finland (pop. 920 000).

This Moblity Lab serves as both a partner and host to Canadian postdoctoral researcher Karl Saidla, with funding being provided by the Estonian Research Council via the Mobilitas Pluss incoming postdoctoral grant program.

Research publications

  • Silm, S., Tominga, A., Saidla, K., Poom, A., Tammaru, T. (2024). Socio-economic and residential differences in urban modality styles based on a long-term smartphone experiment. Journal of Transport Geography, 115, hhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.103810

Media coverage

Saidla, K. 2022. Smart Bike Share in Tartu, Estonia. Blog post, 5.04.2022.

Presentations

Saidla, K. (2023) Active transportation policy – what, why, how?, Online lecture series “Mobility analysis and planning for human -scale cities”, 19.05.2023, Tartu [Dr. Karl Saidla. Active transportation policy – what, why, how? – YouTube]

Saidla, K. (2023) The little city that could: Bike share policy in Tartu. Velo City conference, 09.-12.05.2023, Leipzig

Saidla, K. (2023) Policy for successful bike share in cities big and small: Helsinki vs Tartu, Department of Geography Seminar, 03.05.2023, Tartu

Saidla, K. (2023) Väike puust linn, mis suutis. Tartu rattaringluse edu taga olevad otsused / The little wooden city that could. Decisions behind the success of bike sharing in Tartu [in Estonian]. Tartu Planning Conference, 30.03.2023, Tartu. [UTTV]

Saidla, K. (2022) Active transportation policy – what, why, how?, Online lecture series “Mobility analysis and planning for human -scale cities”, 15.03.2022, Online event [Karl Saidla. Active transportation policy – what, why, how? – YouTube]

  • Project name: Public policy for successful bike share: Does city size matter? Tartu, Estonia vs. Helsinki, Finland
  • Duration: December 2021–May 2023
  • Funding: Estonian Research Council
  • Lead partner: Mobility Lab
  • Principal Investigator at the Mobility Lab: Karl Saidla
  • People involved: Siiri Silm, Age Poom