Thebikedata package aims to enable ready importing of historical trip data from all public bicycle hire systems which provide data, and will be expanded on an ongoing basis as more systems publish open data. Cities and names of associated public bicycle systems currently included, along with numbers of bikes and of docking stations (fromwikipedia), are
| City | Hire Bicycle System | Number of Bicycles | Number of Docking Stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| London, U.K. | Santander Cycles | 13,600 | 839 |
| San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. | Ford GoBike | 7,000 | 540 |
| New York City NY, U.S.A. | citibike | 7,000 | 458 |
| Chicago IL, U.S.A. | Divvy | 5,837 | 576 |
| Montreal, Canada | Bixi | 5,220 | 452 |
| Washingon DC, U.S.A. | Capital BikeShare | 4,457 | 406 |
| Guadalajara, Mexico | mibici | 2,116 | 242 |
| Minneapolis/St Paul MN, U.S.A. | Nice Ride | 1,833 | 171 |
| Boston MA, U.S.A. | Hubway | 1,461 | 158 |
| Philadelphia PA, U.S.A. | Indego | 1,000 | 105 |
| Los Angeles CA, U.S.A. | Metro | 1,000 | 65 |
These data include the places and times at which all trips start and end. Some systems provide additional demographic data including years of birth and genders of cyclists. The list of cities may be obtained with thebike_cities() functions, and details of which include demographic data withbike_demographic_data().
The following provides a brief overview of package functionality. For more detail, see thevignette.
1 Installation
Currently a development version only which can be installed with the following command,
devtools::install_github("ropensci/bikedata")and then loaded the usual way
2 Usage
Data may downloaded for a particular city and stored in anSQLite3 database with the simple command,
store_bikedata(city='nyc', bikedb='bikedb', dates=201601:201603)# [1] 2019513where thebikedb parameter provides the name for the database, and the optional argumentdates can be used to specify a particular range of dates (Jan-March 2016 in this example). Thestore_bikedata function returns the total number of trips added to the specified database. The primary objects returned by thebikedata packages are ‘trip matrices’ which contain aggregate numbers of trips between each pair of stations. These are extracted from the database with:
tm<-bike_tripmat(bikedb='bikedb')dim(tm);format(sum(tm), big.mark=',')During the specified time period there were just over 2 million trips between 518 bicycle docking stations. Note that the associated databases can be very large, particularly in the absence ofdates restrictions, and extracting these data can take quite some time.
Data can also be aggregated as daily time series with
bike_daily_trips(bikedb='bikedb')#> # A tibble: 87 x 2#> date numtrips#> <chr> <dbl>#> 1 2016-01-01 11172#> 2 2016-01-02 14794#> 3 2016-01-03 15775#> 4 2016-01-04 19879#> 5 2016-01-05 18326#> 6 2016-01-06 24922#> 7 2016-01-07 28215#> 8 2016-01-08 29131#> 9 2016-01-08 21140#> 10 2016-01-10 14481#> # … with 77 more rowsA summary of all data contained in a given database can be produced as
bike_summary_stats(bikedb='bikedb')#> num_trips num_stations first_trip last_trip latest_files#> ny 2019513 518 2016-01-01 00:00 2016-03-31 23:59 FALSEThe final field,latest_files, indicates whether the files in the database are up to date with the latest published files.
2.1 Filtering trips by dates, times, and weekdays
Trip matrices can be constructed for trips filtered by dates, days of the week, times of day, or any combination of these. The temporal extent of abikedata database is given in the abovebike_summary_stats() function, or can be directly viewed with
bike_datelimits(bikedb='bikedb')Additional temporal arguments which may be passed to thebike_tripmat function includestart_date,end_date,start_time,end_time, andweekday. Dates and times may be specified in almost any format, but larger units must always precede smaller units (so years before months before days; hours before minutes before seconds). The following examples illustrate the variety of acceptable formats for these arguments.
tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', start_date="20160102")tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', start_date=20160102, end_date="16/02/28")tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', start_time=0, end_time=1)# 00:00 - 01:00tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', start_date=20160101, end_date="16,02,28", start_time=6, end_time=24)# 06:00 - 23:59tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', weekday=1)# 1 = Sundaytm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', weekday=c('m','Th'))tm<-bike_tripmat('bikedb', weekday=2:6, start_time="6:30", end_time="10:15:25")2.2 Filtering trips by demographic characteristics
Trip matrices can also be filtered by demographic characteristics through specifying the three additional arguments ofmember,gender, andbirth_year.member = 0 is equivalent tomember = FALSE, and1 equivalent toTRUE.gender is specified numerically such that values of2,1, and0 respectively translate to female, male, and unspecified. The following lines demonstrate this functionality
sum(bike_tripmat('bikedb', member=0))sum(bike_tripmat('bikedb', gender='female'))sum(bike_tripmat('bikedb', weekday='sat', birth_year=1980:1990, gender='unspecified'))3. Citation
citation("bikedata")#>#> To cite bikedata in publications use:#>#> Mark Padgham, Richard Ellison (2017). bikedata Journal of Open Source Software, 2(20). URL#> https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00471#>#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is#>#> @Article{,#> title = {bikedata},#> author = {Mark Padgham and Richard Ellison},#> journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},#> year = {2017},#> volume = {2},#> number = {20},#> month = {Dec},#> publisher = {The Open Journal},#> url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00471},#> doi = {10.21105/joss.00471},#> }4. Code of Conduct
Please note that this project is released with aContributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project you agree to abide by its terms.
