Station performance compared: London best, Paris should be embarrassed

LONDON
MON W14	42
MON W13	62		TUE W13	90		WED W13	85		THU W13	51		FRI W13	48
									THU W12	47		FRI W12	43
NEW YORK
WEEK 14	48
WEEK 13	20		WEEK 13	38		WEEK 13	43		WEEK 13	42		WEEK 13	29*
									WEEK 12	23		WEEK 12	31
PARIS
MON W14	243
MON W13	243		TUE W13	232		WED W13	248		THU W13	230		FRI W13	230
									THU W12	213		FRI W12	240

The City & State piece we posted yesterday begs the question, if all the other American cities have rinky-dink bike-share systems compared to NYC, what about the bigger systems across the Atlantic?

We think we have the answer. Using the NotSpot Index, we’re not as good as London and we’re  a helluva lot better than Paris.

And in what may be the most important category in terms of bike-sharing angst, NYC can teach both London and Paris how to minimize the number of full stations.

We wish we had more data to work with. We only started tracking London and Paris nine days ago. But the systems are mature, there was no adverse weather, and the patterns are pretty obvious. We’ll continue to track and will alert if there’s reason to change our conclusions

How we made comparison for  the number of NotSpots in each city:

Blue Zone	to 6%
Green Zone	to 11%
Yellow Zone	to 14%
Red Zone	above 14%

Of note:

• NYC is deploying the most bikes for the size of system
• NYC clearly outperforms in its ability to limit the occurrences of filled stations
• Both Paris and London have had instances where the number of filled stations exceeded the number of empties, a scenario that seems shocking to us

• NYC and London are Bixi systems.
• Paris is the largest of the bike-sharing systems that can be tracked online

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LONDON

Surveys conducted 1:30 pm -  9:30 pm local time

Operating stations: 722 - 725

Available bikes: 8462 - 9319

Bikes per station: 13

Best performance: Minus 2.07% of capacity on Monday April 7 at 3:30 pm

Worst  performance: Minus 19.6% of capacity on Tuesday, April 1 at 9:30 pm

Fewest empties: 11 (1.5% of stations)

Most empties: 103 (14.2%)

Fewest filled: 4 (.5%)

Most filled: 39  (5.4%)

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PARIS

Surveys conducted 2:30 pm -  10:30 pm local time

Operating stations:1197-1206

Available bikes: 14722-17286

Bikes per station: 14

Best performance: Minus 13.5% of capacity at 6:30 pm on Monday April 7

Worst  performance: Minus 27.9% of capacity at 2:30 pm on Monday March 31

Fewest empties: 93 (7.7%)

Most empties: 213 (17.7%)

Fewest filled: 51 (.4% of stations)

Most filled: 147 (12.2%)

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NEW YORK

Surveys conducted 8:30 am- 5:30 pm local time

Operating stations: 321-323

Available bikes: 4190-5006

Bikes per station: 16

Best performance: Minus 3.4% of capacity out at 8:30 am on Monday, March 31 (37F snow/rain mix)

Worst  performance: 21.7% of capacity out at 9:30 am on Monday, April 7

Fewest empties: 11 (3.4%)

Most empties: 63 (19.5%)

Fewest filled:  0

Most filled: 12 (3.7%)