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The heat map visualizes the Bay Wheel ridership datasets in August 2018, using Google Map API, where a Bay Wheel usage data layer is created as a heat map placed above a normal street map layer.
By clicking each census tract, a gradient map will be shortly generated showing the amount of travel time from the origin tract to all destination tracts, and darker colors represent longer travel time.
Link: Uber Movement in SF Bay
The first workbook shows the distribution of BART stations and entry counts. The second workbook exhibits the stations with entry counts only. The third workbook demonstrates trip records from each BART station to passenger’s destination and the total counts of the trips between the same origin and destination.
Socioeconomic: The choice of driving "Car, Truck or Van" is more correlated with Asian population and income.
Commuting: People choose to drive personal vehicles take a large portion of the total population, and carpooled also accounts for a large portion. In north Bay Area, riding on subway or elevated in San Francisco County and Sonoma County, and no apparent preference other than driving and carpooled in east and south Bay Area.
Working Places: A lot of people living in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Solano Counties do not reside in the counties or places of their work places, which may explain the large portions of people choosing to drive in these counties for convenience and time-saving purposes.
Travel Time for Work: Relatively more people in Alameda and San Mateo Counties leave very early in the morning for work, and individuals in Alameda, San Mateo, and Contra Costa and eastern Santa Clara Counties tend to travel over an hour on their way to work.
Bay Wheel: The high demand of Bay Wheel in San Francisco County especially downtown area compared with Sonoma County
Uber: The extra-long delay occurred in San Francisco downtown area and south Bay Area compared with trips with similar travel distances
BART: The high demand of BART in San Francisco downtown and nearby areas as both origin and destination