Let me further share some graphs that might help.
This is an intraday chart of bike/dock availability for Central Park South on 5/30 and 5/31.
One can see that 90 bikes get cycled in and out intraday. The problem with this station is the size of station just not sufficient to cope with the demand. We would need a bigger station to handle the peak (or add more nearby stations).
On the other hand, this is Eastern Queens:
There is just not that much demand for bikes, and 20 bikes sit idle and blocking access to others.
Most of the Manhattan core looks like demand is outstripping available supplies:
This one is a bit more well balanced, but probably need a few added:
But then there are a few are also quite out of balanced:
I appreciate that balance such a dynamic system is tricky, but it seems like the system could use some tweak instead of blindly relying on blackbox algorithms. Perhaps better data availability ( eg dynamic forecast of demand / bike-angel points ) would help.
Thanks
Hello, ththank you for posting your experiences here in the community. I apologize for the delay in reply to your recent posts. Your perspective is invaluable, and we are always interested in feedback about the system. Your detailed and thoughtful post sharing your experiences with Citi Bike in Eastern Queens helps add context to the larger picture as we work to make improvements to the overall system and the Bike Angels program. I've tagged this post as feedback to share with the Citi Bike and Bike Angels Team.
