## 4 Results  
### Spatial and Non-Spatial Analysis  
The basic data about bike-sharing service in Zilina was compared with 10 other European cities with similar areas, also with existing bike-sharing services in Table 4 below based on [60,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77]. The range of the areas was chosen in the range \(\pm\)10 km\({}^{2}\). The calculation in terms of the number of stations per 1 km\({}^{2}\) and the average number of bike-sharing stations is considered. Data was provided on publicly available information on the website [67]. The numbers showing how many stations are located in the listed cities are very variable, and they range from 22 to 106 stations. In general, the number of bike-sharing stations is not related to the area of the municipality, and it is dependent on several factors which can be unique for the chosen municipality. However, the bike-sharing service in Zilina, with the number of stations, is far below the average number of bike-sharing stations in the list of cities (61 stations). The service was introduced in 2019, and the performance of individual seasons in terms of the number of rentals made by users is shown in the complex graph below in Figure 2. The season of using bike-sharing services last usually from the end of March or the beginning of April till the beginning of December. Season duration represents, on average, more than two-thirds of the year. Before the introduction season in 2019, a relatively strong marketing campaign was launched, for example on social media, and recorded 290,000 rides, the highest number of bicycle rentals. A significant shortening of the season as well as a decrease in bicycle rentals happened, especially due to COVID-19 pandemic regulations in 2020, when the season started even in May. During the year 2021, interest in the service was comparable to the year 2020 [42]. The number of rentals increased little after ending the pandemic regulations, and comparable results for the years 2022 and 2023 reached almost 200,000 rentals. During the observed seasons, the average length of the bicycle rental varied. The graph in Figure 3 below shows the highest average riding time in 2019, with 14.6 min. and in 2020 with 17 min. The free ride time was established for 1 hour in these two years. With the reduction in free ride time, the average rental time also decreased and oscillated at the same level during the 2021-2023 seasons. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c} \hline \hline
**Name of the City** & & & **Area of the City** & **Bike-Sharing** & **Bike-Sharing** \\
**[Country]** & **Inhabitants** & **in km\({}^{2}\)** & **Stations** & **Stations per 1 km\({}^{2}\)** \\ \hline Z\(\ddot{\text{Z}}\)ilina & 81,219 & 80.03 km\({}^{2}\) & 32 & 0.40 \\ \hline Trnava [SK] & 62,754 & 71.54 km\({}^{2}\) & 96 & 1.34 \\ \hline Jihlava [CZ] & 53,986 & 87.86 km\({}^{2}\) & 60 & 0.68 \\ \hline Pardubice [CZ] & 92,362 & 77.71 km\({}^{2}\) & 61 & 0.78 \\ \hline Offenburg [DE] & 59,215 & 78.38 km\({}^{2}\) & 22 & 0.28 \\ \hline Strassburg [FR] & 287,228 & 78.26 km\({}^{2}\) & 31 & 0.40 \\ \hline Terst [IT] & 202,123 & 84.49 km\({}^{2}\) & 23 & 0.27 \\ \hline Brescia [IT] & 189,902 & 90.68 km\({}^{2}\) & 93 & 1.03 \\ \hline Split [HR] & 188,694 & 79.33 km\({}^{2}\) & 96 & 1.21 \\ \hline Brighton and Hove [GB] & 256,600 & 87.54 km\({}^{2}\) & 106 & 1.21 \\ \hline Stavanger [NO] & 119,586 & 71.4 km\({}^{2}\) & 50 & 0.70 \\ \hline \multicolumn{5}{c}{The average number of bike-sharing stations} & 61 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 4: The overview of the bike-sharing service in European cities with similar areas like Z\(\ddot{\text{Z}}\)ilina municipality. Figure 2: Number of bicycle rentals and seasonsduration overview from 2019 to 2023. The first season in 2019 reports the highest value indicator of the bike-sharing service efficiency. It showed the value of this indicator slightly beyond the limit of the recommended interval (9.56 daily number of rides on one bicycle).