City of Melbourne Open Data provides historical dock locations and capacities for the Melbourne Bike Share Program, which ended in November 2019. The dataset includes dock locations deployed across Melbourne as part of a joint RACV/Victorian Government bicycle hire scheme. It can be joined to bike share usage data via a station_id column.
Use Cases
- Map historical bike share infrastructure density based on dock locations mentioned in the description.
- Analyze dock capacity distribution across the city based on the capacity feature mentioned in the description.
- Join with trip data to study station usage patterns based on the joinable station_id column mentioned in the description.
- Assess the spatial coverage of the terminated bike share program based on the geographic dock data.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including GEOJSON, JSON, SHP, and CSV.
- Dataset includes a documented join key (station_id) for integration with usage data.
- The dataset has a clear temporal endpoint, covering the program until its conclusion in November 2019.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data is historical and covers a program that ended in 2019.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Melbourne Open Data
- Collection Method
- Likely collected as part of the operational Melbourne Bike Share Program.
- Time Range
- Historical data up to November 2019.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-28 08:07:56.291074; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Melbourne, Australia.