See where CaBi riders went after the Nats game

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See where CaBi riders went after the Nats game

by David Alpert • October 17, 2012 4:56 pm

The Nationals' success has been fascinating from a transportation standpoint as well. We've been able to see how a multimodal transportation system successfully transported tens of thousands to and from a destination that didn't exist more than a few years ago.

Matt Johnson mapped where fans ride on Metro after games. Capital Bikeshare has gotten into the act by creating a video visualization of where riders took bikes from the stadium after the playoff game against the Cardinals on October 10:

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Tags: bike sharing, Capital Bikeshare, Nationals ballpark, video

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David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington and Greater Greater Education. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He loves the area which is, in many ways, greater than those others, and wants to see it become even greater.

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Cool stuff. Does anyone know what sort of software can generate animations like this?

by MDE on Oct 17, 2012 5:47 pm • link • report

Poor bastard fell into the river :(

by JJJ on Oct 17, 2012 6:14 pm • link • report

@MDE The animation was made using Processing - see Creating Animation with Processing (and for more examples, see Watching Bikeshare Stations Grow Unbalanced).

by M.V. Jantzen on Oct 17, 2012 6:44 pm • link • report

@JJJ: Yeah, I wonder why someone biked to the Jefferson Memorial afterwards. Maybe it was a chained trip, and s/he grabbed a new bike just before proceeding over the bridge, or maybe s/he went to commiserate with Tom about how Teddy's cursed the Nats.

by Payton on Oct 17, 2012 7:06 pm • link • report

Payton, theres actually a blob that goes to Alexandria, floating lazily down the blue.

by JJJ on Oct 17, 2012 8:19 pm • link • report

@JJJ, water taxi I'm sure :)

by Erik on Oct 17, 2012 8:54 pm • link • report

I made this point on washcycle already, so not to be a bore, but bikeshare was less than .05 percent of people who attended that game, and bikes as a whole a bit more than 1%.

There are real opportunities for using bikes as a way to get to/from games like this, but bikeshare is a horrible idea. 10% of the systems bikes got used for this to move less than 200 people.

by charlie on Oct 18, 2012 6:36 am • link • report

@Charlie

So I got it being about .5%. Regardless, it gave those 200 people another option of how to get to the game. What is wrong with that?

by Kyle-w on Oct 18, 2012 9:16 am • link • report

Were those bikes or errant baseballs?

by David J on Oct 18, 2012 10:13 am • link • report

10% of the systems bikes got used for this to move less than 200 people.

Isn't that a tautology? Moving 200 people via bikeshare always uses 10% of the system's bikes, because the system has close to 2000 bicycles.

by JustMe on Oct 18, 2012 10:50 am • link • report

On a per-person basis, that 1% got transported more cheaply in terms of transportation infrastructure than all but walkers. Even as one scales up, it puts disproportionately lower demands on the infrastrucutre it uses than other methods.

by Crickey7 on Oct 18, 2012 11:12 am • link • report

There are real opportunities for using bikes as a way to get to/from games like this, but bikeshare is a horrible idea.

Why is it a horrible idea? Do the people who chose it think it was horrible? It is not a complete solution, but it is a part of improved mobility.

by David C on Oct 19, 2012 5:57 pm • link • report