Can I Park It?

Average: 3.3 (6 votes)

Developed by: 
Eric George

A google map based app that models the trends in the availability of parking spaces for Boris Bikes throughout the course of the day.  It allows the viewer to identify particularly risky places to attempt to park a bike at certain times of day. The focus is on depositing bikes rather than obtaining them, as once committed by having possession of a [hire] bike, the rider is responsible for its replacement in to a dock. At certain times, this is distressingly burdensome due to many adjacent docking stations all being full already. This app aims to model and to a certain degree predict a level of risk associated with traveling to certain docking locations at certain times.  The map shows averaged historical data, and is not intended for real time stock level checking, other apps exist for this purpose, although sometimes the data is not sufficiently up to date to base a decision on.

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