The use of e-scooters in Atlanta and subsequent devastating crashes have prompted the City to announce a program to rapidly install safety improvements for bikes, scooters, and pedestrians. We wanted to determine if the location of these safety improvements aligned with current e-scooter use.
Over the course of 16 days, we recorded the idle location of every e-scooter in the Atlanta area. Using this data we created a database of every e-scooter trip and its likely route using the HERE Bike Routing API. Then each route was assigned to a street segement to determine which streets e-scooters are most frequently routed.
We found that most freuquently used street segements were:
- Peachtree Street NE
- Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW
- Luckie Street NW
- Marietta Street NW
- Decatur Street SE
- Juniper Street NE
- Glen Iris Drive NE
- John Portman Blvd NE
- Auburn Avenue NE
- Edgewood Avenue NE
- Ponce de Leon Avenue NE
- Marietta Street NW
- Peachtree Street NE
- Edgewood Avenue NE
- Ted Turner Drive NW
- Luckie Street NW
- Linden Avenue NE
- 7th Street NE
- 11th Street NE
- Glen Iris Drive NE
This visualization was created for Georgia Institute of Technology's CEE 6602 Urban Transportation Planning by David Pedrick. The data visualized was observed between October 16th and November 1, 2019. The data was recorded from 4am to 9:30 pm, reflecting the Atlanta's nighttime curfew. During data collection, we experienced an internet outage on October 22, so these data are missing. Additionaly, data collection for Lyft and Lime scooters was not captured due to unknown difficulties with the API.