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Bikeshare is becoming more and more popular around the world. Many cities in the United States have implemented their own bikeshare systems or are considering having one. Among many other benefits by bikeshare, physical health improvement has been mentioned as one of them as a common sense. However, not enough attention has been paid to potential health impacts when using bikeshare. This is not even to mention how the health impact is distributed among different groups. To address this research gap, we conducted a preliminary study to analyze the uneven distribution of health impacts by making bikeshare trips.

In our research, we chose the Divvy bikeshare system in Chicago since it is currently one of the biggest systems in the USA and its trip data are open. By incorporating emission and air dispersion modeling tools, we first estimated the high-resolution air pollution …