Download and aggregate data from public bicycle hire systems

Download data from all public bicycle hire systems which provide open data, currently including

• Santander Cycles London, U.K.

• citibike New York City NY, U.S.A.

• Divvy Chicago IL, U.S.A.

• Capital BikeShare Washingon DC, U.S.A.

• Hubway Boston MA, U.S.A.

• Metro Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Download and store data

• dl_bikedata Download data for particular cities and dates

• store_bikedata Store data in SQLite3 database

Sample data for testing package

• bike_test_data Description of test data included with package

• bike_write_test_data Write test data to disk in form precisely reflecting data provided by all systems

• bike_rm_test_data Remove data written to disk with bike_write_test_data

Functions to aggregate trip data

• bike_daily_trips Aggregate daily time series of total trips

• bike_stations Extract table detailing locations and names of bicycle docking stations

• bike_tripmat Extract aggregate counts of trips between all pairs of stations within a given city

Summary Statistics

• bike_summary_stats Overall quantitative summary of database contents. All of the following functions provide individual aspects of this summary.

• bike_db_totals Count total numbers of trips or stations, either for entire database or a specified city.

• bike_datelimits Return dates of first and last trips, either for entire database or a specified city.

• bike_demographic_data Simple table indicating which cities include demographic parameters with their data

• bike_latest_files Check whether files contained in database are latest published versions

Author

Mark Padgham