Micromobility Station Placement Optimization for a Rural Setting

Table 1

Dataset used for the location optimization problem.

Dataset	Description
Bike-sharing stations (existing)	Shapefile from the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments (METROCOG) of North Dakota encoding the location of bike-sharing stations
Population density	2020 block group census data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Road centerline	Shapefiles for Fargo street segments from METROCOG including geographical coordinates, number of lanes, speed limit, functional class, and shape length
Bikeways	Shapefiles for Fargo bikeway segments from METROCOG including geographical coordinates, type of bikeways, and shape length
Shared-use paths	Shapefiles for Fargo shared-use path segments from METROCOG including geographical coordinates, pavement type, pavement width, and shape length
Traffic signals	Shapefiles for Fargo signalized intersections from METROCOG
Traffic volume	METROCOG interactive map of the 2015 annual average daily traffic volume (AADT) for Fargo [31]
Right-turn lanes	Manual measurements of right-turn lane geometries from Google Earth® imagery