Collect and analyze data on roaming one-way carshare use.
The project started out as a way to find nearest electric car2go vehicles, hence the name. I've since added caching the data, archiving it, and processing to make visualizations and collect statistics.
Much of the data-collection code no longer works as of 2018. Drivenow API was turned off in April 2017 and car2go API in January 2018. The code is now mostly useful as historical record or for analyzing data collected earlier. It is mostly not maintained.
There was once good support for various carshare systems: in December 2015 we could handle car2go, Drivenow, Montréal's Communauto Automobile, Vancouver's Evo, Italy's Enjoy, Milan's Sharengo, and Berlin's Multicity. Communauto and Evo appear to still work, others are untested.
Known to work under Python 3.4.2 and 2.7.8.
Scripts invoked from the command line specify #!/usr/bin/env python3.
PyPI dependencies for whole project are in requirements.txt, for data archiver (run headless on a server) in requirements-download.txt, for web interface in requirements-web.txt.
Simple web page listing currently available electric carshare vehicles in a number of cities where a system has both internal-combustion and electric vehicles available. A basic JSON API is also available.
View it live at http://bin.piorkowski.ca/electric2go/
See doc/web.md for more information.
A carshare's data can be downloaded automatically and archived. An archive can be then analyzed to get usage statistics and generate visualizations.
See doc/analysis.md for more information.
Supported carshare systems are defined in packages in
the electric2go/systems/ directory.
A system definition consists of a dictionary of cities a system supports and a "parser" that converts the system's API output to a standard format.
More systems can be added fairly easily. See doc/systems.md for more information.
If you add a new system, patches or pull requests are most welcome.
- https://github.com/mattsacks/disposable-cars/ is a visualization of car2go trips in Portland
- http://www.comparecarshares.com/ incorporates car2go data to calculate how competitive the cost is compared with driving, cycling, and classic carshare systems in Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto
- http://labs.densitydesign.org/carsharing/ is an analysis of Enjoy service in Milan, it has a making-of write-up at http://www.densitydesign.org/2014/07/the-making-of-the-seven-days-of-carsharing-project/
- http://mappable.info/one-week-of-carsharing was an analysis of car2go service in a number of cities, taken down by request of car2go
This product uses the car2go API but is not endorsed or certified by car2go.
Released under the ISC license. Boilerplate:
Copyright (c) 2012-2018, Jarek Piórkowski jarek@piorkowski.ca
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