I'm interested in finding out whether other cities in the world may have comparably short distances between bus stops and whether they have any datasets that could be used to calculate bus stop distance distributions.
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In London UK, distances between bus stops are on average between 100 and 200m away from each other.
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#2I guess one could use openstreetmap data here, since they have pretty comprehensive coverage of bus stops, at least in Europe.
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#3"on average between 100 and 200m" is an imprecise statement. Where does this metric come from?
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#4Some discussion on this topic on this blog, e.g., https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/10/30/sometimes-bus-...
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#5200m is incredibly short. I'd say the average in Bangalore is around 700metres. It varies from 500m in dense parts of the city to 1.5km in the not so dense parts.
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#6"on average between 100 and 200m" is an imprecise statement. Where does this metric come from?
I haven't got the precise details yet - I've analysed about 20 bus routes so far and they have an average distance between stops of 128.4m. But till I scale up the analysis to all bus routes, I cannot say for certain that it is the London average.
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#7"on average between 100 and 200m" is an imprecise statement. Where does this metric come from?
Transport for London has the open tfl API - I'm gathering data from there
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#8I guess one could use openstreetmap data here, since they have pretty comprehensive coverage of bus stops, at least in Europe.
Also, national or regional data might be more complete.
If you can speak enough German to navigate the download, you can e.g. find geodata of all bus stops in Zurich at https://maps.zh.ch/?topic=ZVVZH&showtab=ogddownload (they will only deliver to email addresses, so I cannot link the actual data here).
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#9Some discussion on this topic on this blog, e.g., https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/10/30/sometimes-bus-...
thanks for the link - very interesting!
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#10It's obviously density related, even in London.