bixi_spatial_features {BKTR}

Spatial Features of Montreal BIXI Stations in 2019

Description

These data represent 14 spatial features (columns) for 587 bike sharing stations (rows) located at different geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) in Montreal. The Montreal based bike sharing company is named BIXI. The first column contains the descriptive label affected to each station and the other columns contain information about the infrastructure, points of interests, walkscore and population surrounding each station for 2019.

Usage

data("bixi_spatial_features")

Format

A data frame with 587 observations on the following 14 variables.

location

a character vector

area_park

a numeric vector

len_cycle_path

a numeric vector

len_major_road

a numeric vector

len_minor_road

a numeric vector

num_metro_stations

a numeric vector

num_other_commercial

a numeric vector

num_restaurants

a numeric vector

num_university

a numeric vector

num_pop

a numeric vector

num_bus_stations

a numeric vector

num_bus_routes

a numeric vector

walkscore

a numeric vector

capacity

a numeric vector

Source

Wang, X., Cheng, Z., Trépanier, M., & Sun, L. (2021). Modeling bike-sharing demand using a regression model with spatially varying coefficients. Journal of Transport Geography, 93, 103059.

References

Reference for the BIXI station informations: BIXI Montréal (2023). “Open Data.” Accessed: 2023-07-11, URL https://bixi.com/en/ open-data.

Reference for point of interests and infrastructure informations: DMTI Spatial Inc (2019). “Enhanced Point of Interest (DMTI).” URL https://www.dmtispatial.com.

Reference for Walkscore: Walk Score (2023). “Walk Score Methodology.” Accessed: 2023-07-11, URL https://www.walkscore.com/methodology.shtml.

The population information comes from the 2016 Canada census data at a dissemination block level.