This daily visualization page is intended to help visualize the daily travel patterns of our riders.
Select a date using the dropdown below. The primary bar chart below depicts the total number of trips per hour in the date selected.
The map shows the total starting stations, ending stations, and routes between stations (see description above map for more info).
The bar charts to the right of the map show demographic and trip information for the date selected.
Click on one of the bars in the primary chart below to filter the following visualizations by hour.
The bar charts will reset by clicking out of the total rides histogram.
However, in order to avoid long loading times, the map will only reset if you press the reset button.
*Note: Data displayed is a random sample of ~5% of the data (10,000 out of 209k rides) in order to minimize load time of the visualizations. As such, the trends depicted below may not be representative of overall trends.
The graphs below show trip information for .
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The following map visualizes daily travel patterns in NYC. Green markers represent starting stations while red represents ending stations. Yellow markers represent trips that started and ended in the same station. Click any marker to see the station name and ID. Search for stations by name using the search bar on the left. Red lines represent routes commonly taken by riders. The darker the lines, the more commonly travelled the route. Hover over a route to see its direction. Click any route to see how many times it was traveled. Click on the top right square to check/uncheck the elements you wish to show/hide. Note that initially, only the top 10 traveled routes appear. If you zoom in, the top 25 will show. If you zoom in further, all routes will appear.
We hope that our visualization can aid us in better understanding how our riders use CitiBikes throughout the course of a day in NYC.
This can help CitiBikes ensure that the busy stations are fully supported throughout the hours in which they are the busiest.
In addition, we hope that our analysis of user demographics and trip duration can help us identify our strongest customers and how we can better aid them in their travel as well as target markets where we can continue to expand our product.
Our primary market seems to be amongst middle-aged individuals (primarily men) commuting to and from work during rush hour. This makes it important to ensure that residential areas are well stocked with bikes in the mornings while business areas are better stocked in the evenings when people are getting off of work.
We can make more effort to address the younger generation of bike riders by putting out some promotional bikes (i.e. changing up the bike design, etc.) or to build more stations by schools and universities so that students have more access to our product.
We can continue the growth of CitiBike as the nation's largest bike-sharing program by using rider data that we already have to support our growth.
To learn more about how we have revolutionized the bike-sharing industry and how we have grown through the years, visit our About page.