UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS A Look at 100 Bikesharing Cities Across the World Similarities and Differences Oliver O Brien, UCL CASA Velo-City 2013 Conference 13 June 2013
Contents UCL CASA & EUNOIA Bike Share Map The Last Year New Cities, Growing Cities, New Data Portals Bike Share Map City by City Bike Share Map Global View Quantitative Comparisons Three forthcoming papers
UCL CASA Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Interdisciplinary research lab at UCL Background in urban modelling (particularly land use-transport models) Visualising of city systems including public transport data (e.g. London s Oyster smartcard) Also teach MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (a research Masters )
EUNOIA EU FP7 Seventh Framework Programme Project to build state-of-the-art mobility/travel demand model for major European cities Case studies: London, Barcelona and Zurich Using MATSim (new open source model/ simulator) Partners in Palma (lead), Barcelona, Madrid, London (UCL CASA), Paris and Zurich 2013-2014
EUNOIA Aiming to combine conventional public transport data (bus/train timetables) private car data (road network, congestion) New data sources Mobile phone calls approx. time & location data Social network data (e.g. Twitter) with location Credit card transactions at known places, times
EUNOIA Bicycle sharing system journey data (start and end points and times) will be an integral part of the model Origin/Destination matrix datasets such as bicycle sharing system journeys are a key data source for calibrating a travel demand model London and Barcelona both have established and wellused bicycle sharing systems Congestion on bicycle lanes exists (in London at least!)
Bike Share Map City by City http://bikes.oobrien.com/ Started with London, August 2010 Built up gradually Minneapolis was the second city Now monitoring docking stations in 85 cities, live Plus 9 where data no longer available (mainly in China) Plus 15 experimental/offline (so ~110 altogether) Main systems that can be easily collected JC Decaux, Alta/PBSC, B-Cycle
Bike Share Map City by City Collect data from the online maps (or API) Every 2 minutes Every 10 minutes if large systems and data is dock-bydock, to prevent overloading with requests Separately also take journey data where operators make it available (not used in Bike Share Map) Boston, Washington DC, London, NYC?
The Last Year New York (May), Moscow (May), Chicago (June) Major expansions to Mexico City, Taipei, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Boston, Zhongshan Intensification of Milan, Brussels, London, Brisbane Release of JC Decaux Open Data portal for Bike Sharing System dock data Includes Paris, Lyon, Brussels, Valencia, Seville etc Tracking a Top 20* list: Bike counts May 2011/2/3 Almost all of the Top 20* have grown in the last year.
Top 20*
Bike Share Map Nantong This is a new system for 2013 (I think!) run by Forever (Shanghai) Another smaller & older Nantong system just to the south One of only two Chinese systems (out of many) which currently have live dock information
Bike Share Map New York City Three weeks old Very popular at weekends and sunny weekdays, so far A few teething issues with power (solar) and connectivity techs rebooting docks (NY Post)
Bike Share Map Mexico City 3x size in 1 year Was teardrop Now angel
Bike Share Map Moscow Two weeks old Massively popular: >80% usage sometimes Very small
Bike Share Map Vienna Note the extra docking stations near here Seeing more commuter use this year than last
Chicago DIVVY Postponed from tomorrow until 28 June Rollout in five phases Initially (Phase 1) will not be in Top 20* list of systems with data (75 docking stations, 1413 docks, I estimate 700 bikes?) As most systems operate with ~1 bike per 2 docks
Bike Share Map Global View New! (Launching now) http://bikes.oobrien.com/global.php
Bike Share Map Global View 85 cities updating today ~9500 docking stations ~211000 docks ~92000 bikes Busiest % Moscow, Rio, Mexico City, Taipei City, New York City Busiest # Paris, Mexico City
Bike Share Map Global View Only 85 of ~500 active systems worldwide Although many very small see Bike Sharing World Map by Russell Meddin & Paul demaio http://bike-sharing.blogspot.com/ Circle area is proportional to number of docks Circle colour scale relates to estimated number of bikes in use right now. >20% = red/yellow Typically 3000-12000 bikes in use at once.
Quantitative Comparisons Two academic papers coming out imminently Dock changes in 39 cities: Journal of Transport Geography (O Brien, Cheshire, Batty) O/D flows in 4 cities: PlosONE (Austwick, O Brien, Strano, Viana) Plus a possible third next year Individual journeys in London: Journal of Transport Geography (Cheshire, O Brien, Taylor, Goodman)
Thank You Velo-City 2013 Oliver O Brien UCL CASA o.obrien@ucl.ac.uk Twitter: @oobr http://eunoia-project.eu/ http://casa.ucl.ac.uk/ http://oliverobrien.co.uk/ http://bikes.oobrien.com/global.php