CaBi Trip Visualizer

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Michael Schade presentation featured

Keeping Transportation Personal in a Digital Age

Friday, February 15, 2013 3:33 PM

Do you remember telephone operators? Have you ever heard of telephone operators, or switchboard operators? If the only thing that comes to mind are black and white photos of Victorian women seated in rows in front of large panels of cords, then you are correct. Telephone operators, once tasked with connecting phone lines before the [...]

by Elizabeth A. Floyd
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Hubway featured

Boston and Minneapolis-Saint Paul Maps Show Bikeshare’s Transportation Impact

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:06 PM

After building the CaBi Trip Visualizer for the Capital Bikeshare system in Washington D.C. and Virginia, I looked for other cities I could do similar analyses with. I found two other systems that posted the open data that would allow me to create maps showing where their riders are coming and going. I got the [...]

by Michael Schade
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Michael Bikeshare Tool

A Closer Look at Bikeshare Data

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:29 AM

Every quarter, a new set of data gets added to Capital Bikeshare’s repository of trip-history data. And as the Washington D.C. region’s bikesharing system grows more popular, the data sets grow in size (from 15 megabytes and 117,972 trips in the 4th quarter of 2010 to 68 megabytes and 637,531 trips in the 3rd quarter [...]

by Michael Schade