1.5 million Hubway trips

Biking in Boston

By Ben Eysenbach & Yunjie Li
CMS622@MIT, 2015 Fall

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– Questions –

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Where are bikes found in Boston?

Who are the Hubway riders ? – affluent white man

How people perceive biking, and our city?

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– Quick Glance –

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– Data Exploration –

Data source: Hubway Data Challenge | Mapbox

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– Warping Boston –

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How it works: Hand coded algorithm in Python

Original map

Control points

Warping

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Warped Bostons

Control Points

Warped - all users — Warped – all users

Warped - male — Warped – male

Warped - female — Warped – female

Warped - Casual users — Warped – Casual users

Warped - Subscribers — Warped – Subscribers

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– Key Takeaways –

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Different user groups have different spatial temporal biking patterns
Biking speed varies by gender, trip purpose and familiarity with the system
(while online bike routing calculations may be biased /too fast)
Biking is not equally accessible by everyone in everyplace. If you bike slow, it’s alright.

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