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Fairfax Capital Bikeshare Stats - 2018

We recently spent some time reviewing Fairfax County bikeshare usage data from Capital Bikeshare for the first 5 months of 2018. Usage data for the entire Metro DC system are available for download at the CaBi website. Fields include start and end station, duration, membership type (Member or Casual) and bike number. We filtered out just the Fairfax County station data and summarized based on the start station name.
By far the most popular start station was the Reston Station located at the Reston-Wiehle Metro station. The next most popular start station was the Tysons Corner Station located next to the Metro station. Third most popular was the Reston Town Center Transit Station. Clearly bikeshare is closely related to transit and major employment centers. People are likely taking Metro to the Reston-Wiehle station and riding the short distance to the Reston Town Center. In Tysons they are mostly riding from the Tysons Corner station to the Westpark/Jones Branch area, which is difficult to access without a bike; buses take forever and it's a very long walk.

Below is a graph showing total trips for the Fairfax County stations so far this year.



If you have programming skills and would like to do further analysis of the data, it's available online at the Capital Bikeshare site.

Below are the Fairfax Co stations ranked by total trips from Jan-May 2018:
  

Reston Station	912
Tysons Corner Station	417
Reston Town Center Transit Station	391
Sunset Hills Rd & Discovery Square	267
Sunset Hills & Old Reston Ave	231
Sunset Hills Rd & Isaac Newton Square	206
Greensboro & International Dr	191
Westpark & Jones Branch Dr	126
Library St & Freedom Dr	110
North Shore Dr & Village Rd	106
Westpark Dr & Leesburg Pike	104
Reston YMCA	80
Westpark & Park Run Dr	63
Spring Hill Metro	55
Temporary Rd & Old Reston Ave	51
New Dominion Pkwy & Fountain Dr	48
Tysons One Pl & Chain Bridge Rd	48
Town Center Pkwy & Sunset Hills Rd	44
Reston Pkwy & Spectrum Dr	41
Tysons West Transit Center	41
Jones Branch & Westbranch Dr	37
Town Center Pkwy & Bowman Towne Dr	32
North Shore & Cameron Crescent Dr/Crescent Apartments	19
Reston Regional Library	15
Greensboro & Pinnacle Dr	12
Monthly Total	3647

posted by Bruce Wright at 12:34 PM permalink