although bike share operators provide guidelines regarding best practices for parking eg avoiding locations that block pedestrian travel there are generally no penalty mechanisms by which good parking practices can be enforced the question of who is entitled to the rights to the data generated by these systems also constitutes a novel issue for policymakers if made available to researchers for example this type of data could be used for public transport blind spot analyses biking hotspot analysis and prediction multimode transportation analysis and lifestyle impact analysis increasing mode shares of cyclists in cities also has implications for safety itf a and may also necessitate infrastructure changes such as reducing car lanes and increasing bike lanes