Bike Share Toronto was designed to allow users to make short trips around town. The sturdy-framed bikes are available at any docking station in the city. The bikes can be taken from any station and returned to any station in the bike share system.
There are 6,850 bikes and 625 stations are available throughout Toronto. A station is the strip of bikes that are available around the city, placed based on population and transport needs.
There are two major user categories in the dataset:
Official website: https://bikesharetoronto.com/
*after data cleaning
People like to use share bike when it’s warm, while factors like sport games can also affect ridership on certain days.
More casual members used share bike in October and November than Annual members, while Annual members contributed to the majority of ridership in the rest of the year.
The monthly ridership plot revealed the impact of weather: summer definitely is the season when more people use Share Bike Toronto. From the daily ridership plot, we found a few outstanding "spikes" on: 05/16, 05/24, 06/05, 06/12, 07/10. All these days seemed to be gamedays (baseball and basketball), even though the baseball game didn't return to Rogers Centre until Jul 30.
Annual members used share bike evenly regardless of weekdays or weekend, while significantly more Casual members used share bike on weekends.
Casual members used share bike much longer than Annual members for each trip on average.
Peak hour of the day is 17:00, and Annual members also generated more ridership during busy hours from noon to 20:00
In May 2021, share bike trips had the highest average duration, especially for Casual members.
Share bike riders’ average trip durations are generally the same over different time of the day, except for early morning (4:00 - 9:00), when the trips’ durations are shorter, and the cycling speed is faster on average.
Annual members’ average speed didn’t change much over the month, while Casual members were faster in January, October and November than the rest of the year. And in general, Annual members were cycling faster than Casual members.
Stations on lakeshore and along side Yonge St. & Bay St. (in downtown area, south of Bloor St.) were the most popular ones in general.
Use this interactive map to view the popularity change over months
In terms of popular stations by user types, we found that more stations were used by Annual members in general, but more Casual members the stations along the lakeshore and on the edge of the share bike service territory.