Spatial analysis of dynamic movements of Vélo'v, Lyon's shared bicycle program

Pierre Borgnat (1) , Eric Fleury (2, 3, 4) , Céline Robardet (5, 3) , Antoine Scherrer (1)

1 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon
2 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
3 IXXI - Institut Rhône-Alpin des systèmes complexes
4 DNET - Dynamic Networks
5 DM2L - Data Mining and Machine Learning

Public transportation systems like Lyon's bicycle community sharing program can be considered as a complex system composed of interconnected stations that exchange bicycles. Such system generates digital footprints that reveals the activity in the city over time and space and make possible their analyze. In this paper, the analysis deals with the spatial understanding and visualization of bicycle trips. We first study the activity in each station separately and then identify the main characteristics of the flow between stations.

Keywords: Complex System; Community bicycle program; Vélo'v; Dynamic network; Spatial data

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Signal and Image Processing; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Signal and Image processing

Pierre Borgnat, Eric Fleury, Céline Robardet, Antoine Scherrer. Spatial analysis of dynamic movements of Vélo'v, Lyon's shared bicycle program. ECCS'09, Sep 2009, Warwick, United Kingdom. ⟨ensl-00408150⟩