Early stats on Mobi bike-share program are positive
Mobi, Vancouver’s fledgling bike-sharing program, is off to a good start since it launched in July, according to a local data analysis firm that crunched the numbers just for fun. “It’s a way for us to try out new skills,” said Jens von Bergmann of MountainMath Software. The company used its own software to “scrape” the numbers from Mobi’s own site, starting last Saturday, and updating every minute. An hourly Mobi usage graph is on MountainMath’s website, mountainmath.ca.
3 THAT BIKE CARRIED YOU AND TWO OTHERS TODAY
Three is the average number of riders each of Mobi’s bikes — 491 bikes in total and rising daily, aiming for 1,500 by summer’s end — gets every day. That rate puts Mobi ahead of the sixmonth-old Seattle bike-share program, where each bike carries an average of less than one rider per bike per day.
11 TAIWAN ON?
On the other hand, the bikeshare program in the Asian city of Taipei gets an average of more than 11 riders per bike per day. That system has more than 6,000 bikes.
0 A ONE-BIKE MAN
Number of times MountainMath’s Jens von Bergmann has used the Mobi system.
“I’ve got my own bike that I ride everywhere.”
142 SATURDAY’S ALL RIGHT FOR BIKING
The number of bikes in use Saturday, Aug. 13, at 3:10 p.m., the peak moment for usage so far recorded by MountainMath.
Peak times are more commuter-driven during the weekdays with the most bikes out around 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. those days.
83, 2 SEAWALL, SEE BIKES
The system’s busiest bike station is the one at Ontario Street and the False Creek seawall, with an average of 83 bike checkouts per day.
Check out the view and you’ll know why.
Least busy station was the one near city hall, at 12th and Yukon, with an average of two bike checkouts per day.