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Author(s):: OU Guo-li; WANG Dong-xue; School of Economics and Management， Beijing Jiaotong University，Beijing 100044， China

Keywords:: bicycle sharing; sharing economy; economic attribute; quasi public goods; idle bicycle

Abstract:: As for the controversial issue of economic category of bicycle sharing, economic attributes of bicycle sharing were analyzed and commented based on the framework of sharing economic theory. Research shows that privately idle bicycles transformed by the enterprises belong to the goods under sharing economy, and their development needs enterprises to design corresponding incentive mechanism to encourage more idle bicycles to be put into the society, in order to recycle resources and improve the efficiency of the use of idle transportation resources; a large number of new bicycles sharing by financing which have been put into use dont belong to the sharing economy in the strict sense, and they belong to the category of sharing economy; the development of bicycle sharing is largely the result of the profit of social capital, and many problems have also been exposed in the process of development. The government should plan, supervise and control the amount, space distribution and parking of bicycle sharing so that it can develop healthily without affecting the normal traffic order and efficiency of the city.