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Understanding the influence mechanisms of dockless bike-sharing usage is essential for land use planning and bike scheduling strategy implementation. Although various studies have been carried out to explore the impact of built environment (BE) factors on bike-sharing usage, few studies have examined the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Moreover, previous studies mainly focused on the separate effect of each factor but neglected the interactions between these factors. Taking Shenzhen, China as the case, this study fills these two gaps by employing the geographical detector method to examine the MAUP in dockless bike-sharing usage as well as the interactive effects of BE factors. The results revealed that the influences of most BE variables are sensitive to the spatial areal units, which have informed urban planners what built-environment factors should be paid more attention to at certain spatial scales. Additionally, through the comparisons between single effect and interactive effect, this study revealed some interesting findings that can provide scientific basis for temporal rebalance strategy for the innovative and high-density metropolis in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding the relationship between human activity patterns and urban spatial structure planning is one of the core research topics in urban planning. Since a building is the basic spatial unit of the urban spatial structure, identifying building function types, according to human activities, is essential but challenging. This study presented a novel approach that integrated the eigendecomposition method and k-means clustering for inferring building function types according to location-based social media data, Tencent User Density (TUD) data. The eigendecomposition approach was used to extract the effective principal components (PCs) to characterize the temporal patterns of human activities at building level. This was combined with k-means clustering for building function identification. The proposed method was applied to the study area of Tianhe district, Guangzhou, one of the largest cities in China. The building inference results were verified through the random sampling of AOI data and street views in Baidu Maps. The accuracy for all building clusters exceeded 83.00%. The results indicated that the eigendecomposition approach is effective for revealing the temporal structure inherent in human activities, and the proposed eigendecomposition-k-means clustering approach is reliable for building function identification based on social media data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]