Magpie bike share · Port Corran

One week on 1,200 shared bikes

Seven charts, from Monday, May 10 to Sunday, May 16, 2027.

Made-up data. Port Corran isn't a real city and Magpie isn't a real bike share. The numbers are invented, though they do add up.

1

41,400 trips in seven days, and Friday took the most.

That is about five rides for every bike, every day. Friday's 7,000 was the high. Wednesday's 4,100 was the low, for a reason you'll meet in part 4.

Trips per day, in thousands. Striped is the day it rained.
2

Weekdays have two rush hours. Weekends have one long afternoon.

From Monday to Friday the docks empty at 8 am and again at 5 pm, with commuters. On Saturday and Sunday nobody is in a hurry: riding builds all morning and tops out at 2 pm.

Monday to Friday, average daySaturday and Sunday, average day

760 at 8 am 720 at 5 pm 560 at 2 pm
midnight6 amnoon6 pm
Trips started in each hour of the day.
3

Nearly three rides in four are over within 15 minutes.

The median ride lasts 11 minutes and covers 1.4 miles. People use Magpie for the last stretch: station to office, home to the market. Only 2% of rides run past 45 minutes.

  • Under 5 min
    14%
  • 5 to 10
    31%
  • 10 to 15
    27%
  • 15 to 20
    13%
  • 20 to 30
    9%
  • 30 to 45
    4%
  • Over 45
    2%
Share of the week's trips by length. The three coral bars come to 72%.
4

Rain cost Wednesday 38% of its rides.

It rained from 7 am to 3 pm, 0.6 inches in all. The morning rush never showed up. The evening one did, on wet saddles.

6,625 trips on an average dry weekday

4,100 trips on Wednesday

Each dot is 100 trips. The dry-day figure is the average of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The 25 empty circles are the rides the rain took.
5

Bikes roll downhill and stay there.

The Heights sit 260 feet above the Harbor. People are glad to ride down in the morning and much less glad to ride back up. Two vans make up the difference, about 307 bikes a day.

The Heights The Harbor

5,300trips started at the 14 hilltop stations

3,150trips ended at them

2,150bikes went back up by van

6

A third of the riders take most of the trips.

9,800 different people rode that week. The 3,500 with a monthly pass took 29,400 trips, about 8 each. The 6,300 who paid by the ride averaged fewer than 2.

Riders: 9,800 people

36%64%

Trips: 41,400

71%29%

Monthly passPay by the ride

7

Even a busy bike is parked 90% of the day.

Bike no. 0417 had a good Tuesday: 11 trips, twice the fleet average, with 9 different riders. All of it took 2 hours 24 minutes. For the other 21 hours 36 minutes it stood in a dock.

6 am10 am2 pm6 pm10 pm
Each coral stripe is one ride on bike no. 0417, Tuesday, May 11. The longest, at 2:10 pm, lasted 22 minutes.
11
trips
9
riders
16.2
miles
10%
of the day in use

About these numbers. Port Corran and Magpie don't exist, and every figure here was invented for this page. They were then checked against each other: the seven days add up to 41,400 trips, the two kinds of rider add up to 9,800 people, and bike no. 0417's eleven rides add up to 144 minutes.