Extreme Bikesharing

Extreme Bikesharing: How I used Python to plan an epic Ford GoBike trip - Jonas Neubert

How do you get the most bike for the buck out of a $10 day-pass for the Bay Wheels (formerly "Ford GoBike") bike share system? This talk is about how I used constraint programming, mapping and routing APIs, public bike share datasets, map visualization libraries, and a whole lot of Python to plan an epic 13-hour-long 121-leg bike ride around the East Bay.

https://jonasneubert.com/talks/

Transcript

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   Jonas Neubert
   Extreme Bikesharing
   How I used Python to plan an epic Ford GoBike trip
   SF Python Meetup, 8 Jan 2020
   

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   switch to Jupyter Notebook
   The primary (technical) content of this presentation was presented
   by stepping through a Jupyter Notebook. You can download a copy
   of the Notebook from this Github repo:
   https://github.com/jonemo/fordgobikesunday/
   The following slides are screenshots of select cells from the
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    After the excursion to the Jupyter Notebook for the main content of
    the presentation, the slides resume here for the trip report.
    You can download a copy of the Notebook from this Github repo:
    https://github.com/jonemo/fordgobikesunday/
    

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    5:59pm
    Telegraph Ave at 58th St
    

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    Stats
    Estimated time from start to finish: 12 hrs 48 min
    Actual time from start to finish: 13 hrs 2 min
    Total bicycle rental time: 6 hrs 43 min
    Total time between rentals: 6 hrs 5 min
    Distance: ~90km
    Times Telegraph Avenue crossed: 8
    Times Telegraph Avenue touched: 2
    Stations checked in at: 121
    Stopped at but not checked in: 1
    Stations missed: 2
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    Total number of stations in East Bay: 124
    

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    April 2018:
    First e-bikes
    deployed
    Dec 2018:
    First e-bikes
    deployed
    April 2019:
    Brake issues
    June 2019:
    2nd Gen e-bikes
    June 2019:
    Battery fires
    

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    PyPI packages used:
    - folium
    - mapbox see also: https://docs.mapbox.com/
    - ortools see also: https://developers.google.com/optimization/
    - geopy (for distance calculation)
    Folium map export:
    https://jonemo.github.io/fordgobikesunday/
    https://jonemo.github.io/fordgobikesunday/itinerary.html
    #FordGoBikeSunday Twitter thread:
    https://twitter.com/jonemo/status/1010763287527473154
    Got idea for silly bike ride or hike? Email: jn@jonasneubert.com
    

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