How Different Riders Move Through Hamilton: What a Year of Bike Share GPS Data Reveals
Posted 3 months ago
As part of my PhD, I set out to understand how different bike share riders actually move through a city. We often talk about bike share users as if they form a single, homogeneous group. But once you dig into the data, a far more nuanced landscape emerges.
Analyzing Bike Share and Public Transit Integration using GPS and Spatiotemporal Distance Decay
Posted 9 months ago
One of the most persistent challenges in public transportation is the "first-and-last mile" (FM/LM) problem: how riders travel from their trip origin, such as homes or workplaces, to the nearest transit stop, and then from the disembark stop to their final destination. In my recent PhD research, published in Travel Behaviour and Society, I examined how bike share systems can help bridge this gap in Hamilton, Ontario.
Computing Catchment Areas for Bus Stops using GTFS Static Data
Posted 1 year ago
In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to compute catchment areas, or network buffers, around transit stops in Hamilton, Ontario, using the ArcPy Network Analyst module and Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) static data from Open Hamilton. Step 1: Import Required Packages Let’s begin by importing the necessary packages. The urllib and […]
Meet Zehui Yin: ECCE New Student Associate at McMaster University
Posted 2 years ago
My name is Zehui Yin, and I am one of the new ECCE student associates at McMaster University. I am pursuing a PhD in Geography at the School of Earth, Environment & Society, under the mentorship of Dr. Darren Scott.
