It’s been awhile, but I’ve been working hard to consolidate a bunch of information for you all. Here are some motion charts, just because I’m in a motion chart mood, of bus ridership and traffic accidents around the UNLV campus.

Here is a chart showing the ridership increase from 2004 to 2008 on the three bus lines surrounding the university. Just hit play!

(Change the color, size, x and y axes!)

Although ridership has increased, it’s also important to note that the population has increased too. What I’m hoping to do over the summer is do a “deep dive” into the transportation habits of the Maryland Parkway community (please don’t doubt that there is one). I’ll be looking more closely at how students, faculty and staff at UNLV use the bus (if at all).

This chart of traffic accidents from 2004-2008 at five intersections surrounding UNLV comes after serious re-engineering. There was a lot of data and my computer screen is tiny!

There are a lot of variables to play with here. I suggest playing with it to glean the info you want. You change the color of the bubbles, the size of the bubbles, and the x and y axes. The variables are: number of accidents, vehicles involved, fatalities and injuries.

Tell me what interesting things you discover in the comments!

Related posts:

1. Stuff No One Really Advertises – UNLV Transit Study
2. Resources on Bus Rapid Transit
3. Midtown UNLV – A Fizzled Plan
4. Three reasons we don’t understand traffic
5. UNLV Transit Hub Study, Part 2 of 2