Bike sharing system of Malaga City

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Gregorio Ambrosio
Malaga 24 abr 2016

Malagabici: Malaga, self-service bike-sharing scheme for short journeys

  • Malagabici is self-service bike-sharing scheme for short journeys in the city of Malaga
  • How it works: just walk up to any docking station with your public transport card to get started, hire a bike, ride it where you like, then return it to any docking station.
  • What you pay: it costs 0,017 euros/min, and the first 30 minutes of each journey are free. All prepaid with you rpublic transport card.

Portal Datos Abiertos: Malaga's Open Data Portal

  • The Malaga DataStore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access data relating to the city.
  • Whether you're a citizen, business owner, researcher or developer, the site provides over 700 datasets to help you understand the city and develop solutions to Malaga's problems.

Exploring data

  • One of the most downloaded dataset is relative to the bike sharing system.
  • It can be downloaded from http://datosabiertos.malaga.eu and it's updated every minute.
  • And get some interesting info like computing the number of free bikes in the city in real time:
malagabici <- read.csv(url("http://datosabiertos.malaga.eu/recursos/transporte/EMT/estacionamientos/Estacionamientos.csv"))

sum(malagabici$NUM_OCUPADOS)

## [1] 259

colnames(malagabici)

##  [1] "ID"            "NOMBRE"        "NOMBRE_CIUDAD" "DIRECCION"    
##  [5] "ID_ESTADO"     "NOMBRE_ESTADO" "NUM_DERBIS"    "NUM_LIBRES"   
##  [9] "NUM_OCUPADOS"  "LAT"           "LON"           "ID_EXTERNO"
  • But we can do better getting the number of free bikes by docking station and locating the in a map ...

Available bikes locator