Citi Bike in New York has been spectacularly successful and incredibly popular since it launched in May last year.
Just a few months later tens of thousands of trips per day were already being taken on the bikes. Below is a fascinating visualisation covering trips users made over two days.
At long last, we have documented trips on Citi Bike. Rides are displayed as point-to-point journeys (not routed in the street grid – yet) and are rendered in color based on whether the rider was an annual or casual user.
This visualization was produced using journey data from Tuesday, September 17th at 12 midnight and Wednesday, September 18th at midnight. Approximately 75,000 rides were taken in these two days.
The weather was mild, with highs in the 60s and lows in the 50s. No rain at all was recorded.
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…love the lonely 4am riders, v cool data presentation.
+1, v friggin coool
Can we have something like that in Auckland near the popular destination with bike lanes?
Popular destinations with bike lanes?
Destinations with bike lanes?
Since Auckland’s bike share system requires you to return the bike to where you got it from, it’d be a pretty boring visualisation: three non-moving dots.
That’s stupid. Chicago has a similar bike sharing system like NY, divvy which I used in Chicago when going to the ABs v USA game there recently. You can drop off at any divvy station. The only minus was that you had to retag back into a divvy station periodically to stop being charged more, even if you weren’t finished biking around. Think I saw bike sharing bikes in San Fran as well, though were also a heap of bicycle rental companies there which were better for all day rentals. Have to say I was a bit worried biking around San Fran at first but I found drivers there (and in the States in general) to be a heck of lot more considerate to both cyclists and pedestrians in the cities I went to (San Fran, Chicago, & NYC) than many Auckland drivers.
Brisbane and Melbourne have demonstrated that it is a waste of time having a bike share scheme while there is still a helmet law. Their schemes have been a disaster. Each bike is used less than once a day.
Israel, Spain and even (FFS!!) Dallas, Texas have recently scrapped their adult cycle helmet laws specifically because of new bike share schemes.
http://caa.org.nz/general-news/electric-bike-hire-in-copenhagen/
http://caa.org.nz/general-news/madrids-new-electric-bike-scheme/
Wow, this is absolutely fantastic! This kind of snapshot data visualisation, should be used to track PT network journeys in Auckland.