Bikeshare transit trip planner

[Brandon Martin-Anderson]

Heya y'all,

Thought you might be interested in a thingie I'm working on. It finds current best bikeshare trip plans in New York City. Part of my master's thesis work. Here:

http://wideworld.media.mit.edu/

I left a lot of features out, and I've been waiting for users to tell me which ones they need most. Sort of a Craigslist approach. If you live in New York City and you find this useful, I'd love to hear what you think of it.

-Brandon

[Michael Frumin]

Brandon, sweet!  I like that at the departure station it says how many bikes are available, and at the arrival station it says how many docks are available.

Some thoughts off the bat, since you asked:

1. This is multimodal, and I would love to express a preference for not-transit.  When I want to take the train or bus between common places I travel, I generally already know how to do so.  But at times I find myself wanting to bike a trip that would otherwise be slower than using the train or bus, just for the sake of biking/exercise/enjoying the weather/etc.

1a. I know it's an alpha, but, what about buses?

2. more for later down the road when it's an app in my pocket, but if plan a bikeshare trip and it knows what bike station I'm walking to (to start the trip), it should signal me if that station runs out of bikes, and suggest alternate stations.

2a. likewise for the destination station and # of docks.

3. not that everyone else hasn't done so already, but it might make sense to plot the locations of the shares in a way that expresses their # bikes and docks.

Thanks,
Mike

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[Frank Hebbert]

Does it weight for routes using bike lanes?

(Are you interested in presenting this at the #citibike hack night next week in NYC? http://www.meetup.com/betanyc/events/121671282/)

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[Brandon Martin-Anderson]

It does not weight for bike lanes, other than omitting expressways. I would love to come to citibike hack night - already RSVP'd.

-Brandon

[Jawalikar, Prashant S. [RA]]

Brandon,

Good implementation of the concept and will help transit riders/carpoolers to solve the last mile challenge.

It would be great to see how this can be integrated with the Multi-Modal Trip Planner..please take a look at the SF Bay Area Multi-Modal Trip Planner (officially known and Enhanced Trip Planner). I would be very interested in hearing ideas from you (and others on the forum too) about how bikecycling can be integrated with the Multi-Modal.

http://enhancedtripplanner.transit.511.org/transitmmtp/tripplanner/index.aspx

 

Prashant S. Jawalikar | SAIC| Leidos

Program Manager (ITS, 511 Transit)

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[Sean Barbeau]

Brandon,
Very cool!  Is this open-source?

Sean

On Monday, June 17, 2013 1:13:26 PM UTC-4, Prashant Jawalikar wrote:

Brandon,

Good implementation of the concept and will help transit riders/carpoolers to solve the last mile challenge.

It would be great to see how this can be integrated with the Multi-Modal Trip Planner..please take a look at the SF Bay Area Multi-Modal Trip Planner (officially known and Enhanced Trip Planner). I would be very interested in hearing ideas from you (and others on the forum too) about how bikecycling can be integrated with the Multi-Modal.

http://enhancedtripplanner.transit.511.org/transitmmtp/tripplanner/index.aspx

 

Prashant S. Jawalikar | SAIC| Leidos

Program Manager (ITS, 511 Transit)

desk: 510-286-2304 | mobile: 510-282-4909

email: Prashant.s...@saic.com  | saic.com

 

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Brandon Martin-Anderson <bad...@gmail.com> wrote:

Heya y'all,

 

Thought you might be interested in a thingie I'm working on. It finds current best bikeshare trip plans in New York City. Part of my master's thesis work. Here:

 

http://wideworld.media.mit.edu/

 

I left a lot of features out, and I've been waiting for users to tell me which ones they need most. Sort of a Craigslist approach. If you live in New York City and you find this useful, I'd love to hear what you think of it.

 

-Brandon

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[Terra Curtis]

Hi Brandon, this is great -- love where you're going. I used to work for the SFMTA in San Francisco and I know they'd be interested in this tool as well. Bike share is coming to SF in August and multi-modal trip options are a big focus within the agency.

Personally, I'd like to be able to type in an address rather than drag and drop (use case: what if I know my destination's address but don't really know where that is on a map)? People are used to this type of interaction with Google Maps. I'd also play with the text/display of the directions. Right now it provides a lot of info, but the important parts get lost in the text.

Keep us posted on your progress!

-Terra

[Guillaume]

Hello,

I have proposed to include bike share data in the GTFS format : https://Groups.Google.com/d/msg/gtfs-changes/WRB5AgTA1bI/7FGNOjXopdIJ

This way Google Transit and/or other multimodal trip planners could plan trips using both mass transit and bike share systems.

What do you think about it?