The current COVID-19 pandemic situation has a very significant impact on urban mobility, as evidenced by fundamental changes in passengers’ behavior. In many cases, passengers have switched to other modes of transport to minimize the risk of infection (particularly cycling and walking). This paper aims to point out the analysis results of the impacts of a bike-sharing system in the city of Košice before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, this paper describes an analysis of the current state of bike-sharing in the Slovak Republic. We have stated a timeline of significant dates related to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 had a significant impact on people’s mobility and bike-sharing, as evidenced by the graphs and results in this paper.

The aim of this article was to perform a practical measurement of the braking properties of a selected Škoda Yeti vehicle on a wet and dry asphalt road and then evaluate and compare the measured data using a decelerograph and a mobile application mSTK. It is a new application for measuring driving dynamics, which was developed for the needs of technical inspection stations in Slovakia. The subject was the intensive braking of a Škoda Yeti passenger car with a fully compressed service brake from different velocities and on different surfaces. A total of 18 measurements were performed, of which 9 on the dry and 9 on the wet surface. This is a new alternative method for recording vehicle driving dynamics. The developed application in conjunction with modern smartphones can thus compete with the current decelographer, both in terms of technical parameters, measurement accuracy (total average deviation 2.11%) and ease of use. The results and data processed in this way are presented in the final part of the paper.

This research aims to estimate the purposes for which bike-share users utilize shared bicycles from bike-sharing companies using selected predictors through multinomial logistic regression in Slovakia. The study seeks to provide a novel perspective on alternative transportation by addressing a gap in existing research, which has not previously focused on modeling the specific purposes of bicycle use. The final sample comprises 162 bike-share users out of more than 300 respondents. The results show that social status, bike-sharing company, and average distance are statistically significant input variables. Finally, we find that using shared bikes for recreation is more typical for employees with a traveled distance of up to 3 km from one of the two bike-sharing companies compared to the reference group (commuting to school). The paper contributes to better planning and management of bike-sharing systems.

The aim of this paper is to develop a case study of the recent situation of a bike-sharing service in a chosen small urban area. Žilina is situated in northern Slovakia, with a population exceeding 80,000 and an area of 80.03 km². This study represents a complex analysis of the available data on a bike-sharing service, as well as data on bicycle rentals from a local provider. Both were processed by the QGIS software. First, the number of rentals and the attractiveness of the bicycle stations were evaluated, taking into account the seasons from 2019 to the end of the 2023 season. Spatial analysis, based on marking the availability of the isochrones of the 32 bike-sharing stations at the end of the season 2024, was conducted considering the map’s characteristics. The analysis was supplemented with a questionnaire survey of bike-sharing service users. This study provides an overall view of the recent situation of a bike-sharing service operating for five years in a small urban area with the intention of identifying deficiencies and improving the service for future system expansion. The originality of this paper lies in the processing of a wide dataset with an extensive set of control variables and the connection of spatial and non-spatial analyses. The approaches and results can serve as proposals for introducing or designing bike-sharing services in other small urban areas for researchers.

The situation over the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect the mobility of the population in several countries. Traditional approaches in transport planning have had to be replaced by new methods using digital technologies and e-planning methods. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the opportunity to use such a situation to enhance feedback from the citizen's perspective. This chapter describes the approach of population involvement through e-planning in the field of sustainable mobility. The case study itself is made based on data from the town of Banská Bystrica, where the process of preparing the strategic document Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan began last year. It can be stated that perhaps also thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the population was involved to a much greater extent than in other periods.