An interesting pattern spotted on the bike hires this morning – I’m not reading too much into it as obviously Girona’s scheme is far smaller than London’s, but it appears that Girona’s commuters this morning managed to almost perfectly distribute the bikes around the town – a marked constrast to London’s who bunch them all in the City and the West End after each morning commute. Either that, or no one’s using them at all in Girona and the redistribution vehicle got to work very efficiently.
The key measure is the grey graph – this shows the number of bikes that would need to be moved to another dock, in order for all the docks to have same proportion of full and empty slots, i.e. a perfectly balanced system.
Girona at 10:50 BST (11:50 local time):
London at 10:50 local time:
The drop in the imbalance figure in Girona started at about 9am local time – London’s rise started at about 8am local time.