Castillo Manzano, José I.Castro Nuño, MercedesLópez Valpuesta, Lourdes2018-12-272018-12-272015Castillo Manzano, J.I., Castro Nuño, M. y López Valpuesta, L. (2015). The relationship between public and private bicycle use: the case of Seville. En ERSA Congress "World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places" (55º. 2015. Lisboa), Lisboa.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/81185Despite the success achieved by Public Bicycle Sharing Systems (PBSS) across the world, several researchers provide evidence on their limitations and constraints in a medium-long term, and bicycle ownership may be considered as a complementary tool to promote a 'bicycle-culture'. This paper aims to cover the gap about the interaction between both systems (public bicycle / private bicycle) and which are the key aspects to explain the bicycle-buying decision. After a fieldwork based on surveys conducted in Seville (Spain), one of the cities currently acknowledged worldwide for its successful policy of promoting cycling, we apply a Discrete Choice Model. Our findings show that among the socio-demographic factors that favor the move from the PBSS to the private bicycle are: having a higher level of education, being more progressive ideologically-speaking, and being a resident of the city itself; while age and gender do not appear to be conclusive. Experienced users, for whom the bicycle is a part of his /her healthy lifestyle, state a greater willingness to buy a bicycle. And the main obstacles to make the jump from the PBSS to the private bicycle, and that any action plan to support private bicycle usage should take into account, are: the lack of proper parking at the origin/destination, and fear of theft.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Public Bicycle Sharing SystemBicycle OwnershipBicycle-buying decisionCyclists’ perceptionsDiscrete Choiceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess