CASA Bike Route Map in Wired

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Ollie O'Brien's work of the now widely featured Boris bikes visualisations gain a double page spread in this months Wired magazine.

Image courtesy of Adrian Short

Embedded below is a view of Ollie's work as a timelapse to illustrate the distinctive weekday commuting patterns of the London cycle hire scheme:



You can run the animation direct via the Cycle Hire Dock Visualisation Map, and find out more about Ollie's work at CASA and beyond via his Suprageography blog,

London Cycle Flows: A Sociable Physics Animation

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The animation below details the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date.

Departure times and journey durations are real; routing is calculated from OSM data; average speed from journey duration and route length.

London Hire Bikes animation from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.

In the visualisation, the fixed circles represent stands – when a stand flashes red, it means that one or more bikes have left it - and a yellow flash means a bike has arrived. The bikes themselves are represented by the Boris Barclays Blue Tadpoles whizzing around – leaving at the right time, travelling at their correct average speed, and taking a (generally) realistic route.

The movie was created by Martin Austwick of Sociable Physics, here in CASA with the help of Ollie O'Brien (again CASA) for collection and routing.

We are a bit biased on such work, here at digital urban, but its great....

London Cycle Hire Timelapse

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Oliver O’Brien, a Research Associate here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has updated his excellent London Cycle Hire map to include a historic view of the last 48 hours.



As Ollie states over on his Suprageography blog, the distinctive weekday commuting patterns are easy to spot, with the morning rush into the centre, followed by the evening rush back out to the edges and the station terminals. Distribution vehicles movements can be inferred, particularly during the wee small hours when there is little other activity.

You can run the animation direct via the Cycle Hire Dock Visualisation Map.

Also check out A Day in the Life of the London cycle Hire Scheme by James Cheshire.

London Cycle Hire in Google Earth

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Adrian Short, the person behind the fantastic Boris Bikes API which serves live data about bike and docking station availability has created a visualization in Google Earth detailing current bike availability across London:





To view the live version and see full details on how it was done - head over to Adrian's blog post. For more about design, citizenship and city keep an eye on http://adrianshort.co.uk/