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I used a dataset made available by the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) for the Healthy Ride Trip Data. 

The dataset "healthyride-rentals-2016-q2" ranges from 1st April 2016 to the 30th June 2016 and includes 26,373 trips taken from 493 bikes from 51 stations in the Pittsburgh region. On average a trip lasted 57 minutes with a maximum length of 1.94 days and the shortest ride 1 minute.


In the dataset "healthyridestations2016" there are 50 bike stations in Pittsburgh with an average of 18.12 racks (min = 12, max = 35). North Shore Trail at Ft Duquesne Bridge and Centre Ave & Conso PPG Arena are the two stations with more racks and S Euclid Ave & Centre Ave, Centre Ave & Kirkpatrick St, and Federal St & E North Ave are the three stations with least racks. 


Using open data of rental bikes in the second quarter of 2016 I will try to dig up through the information to find if these bike journeys already operated in tandem with buses front-mounted bike racks from the Port Authority. The data provided has the time duration of the trips and the two points from where they started and finished the journey. The idea is by calculation the speed of those trips I can potentially found if any of those had used the "Bikes on Transit" system because if the speed per hour exceeds 11-12 mph, which is considered the average riding speed in the city, would indicate the user could use another mean of transportation to move in the city. 


Source: 
https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/healthyride-trip-data

https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/healthyride-stations     

https://www.livestrong.com/article/413599-the-average-bike-riding-speed/ 


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