Cycle Hire Journeys & The Central London Grid
You may remember this map produced by Mapping London co […]
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Front Page of the British Medical Journal
Oliver O’Brien and I have managed to sneak a map […]
Continue reading »Front Page of the British Medical Journal
Oliver O’Brien and I have managed to sneak a map […]
Continue reading »Front Page of the British Medical Journal
Oliver O’Brien and I have managed to sneak a map […]
Continue reading »Front Page of the British Medical Journal
Oliver O’Brien and I have managed to sneak a map […]
Continue reading »London Cycle Hire and Pollution
As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (although I accept cyclists probably aren’t much worse off than pedestrians and drivers in this respect). To illustrate this I have taken data for 3.2 million journeys from …
Continue reading »Where are the Bikes? – in 3D
Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London – the Boris Bikes API – has taken his data and produced…
Continue reading »London Bike Flow Animation
Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »London Bike Flow Animation
Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »London Cycle Flows: A Sociable Physics Animation
The animation below details the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date. Departure times and journey durations are real; routing is calculated from OSM …
Continue reading »Brilliant Boris Bikes Animation
Some of us at CASA can’t get enough of the Barclay’s Cycle Hire data. We have had Ollie‘s hugely successful flow maps, journey time heat maps, and now the the Sociable Physicist himself, Martin Austwick has created this stunning animation of the bikes. The TFL data release contained the start point, end point, and duration for around …
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