Web Application

Visualizing Green & Yellow Taxi Trips to Airports in NYC


Airport traffic has been booming in NYC. How far in advance should we hail a taxi in order to get to the airport on time?





Default Page 
- Map 
- Plot


Introduction

For all flight passengers, other than flight delays, airport traffic is the second most annoying thing when taking a flight for no matter business trips or personal vacations. In New York City, airport traffic has been booming in recent years thanks to the increasing needs in air transport and the development of aviation system. All local New Yorkers and travelers may want to ask the question that, how far in advance they should hail a taxi in order to get to the airport on time. Therefore, we want to explore NYC taxi trips data available online to help answer this question.

User can update the map by selecting
from JFK and LGA, green taxi and yellow cab,
and Monday through Sunday.  


- Map wil update automatically
The goal of this project is to build a web-based user interface that shows spatial and temporal pattern in average travel time to JFK and LGA by yellow and green cab, using taxi trips data from January to June 2016.




More User Interaction 

- User can zoom in to a borough by clicking on
the “Select a Borough” button
- User can go back to full map extent by clicking
on “Back to Full Extent”
Data Source

- NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission - NYC Taxi Trips
- NYU Spatial Data Repository - 2010 New York Large Public Facilities
- NYC Open Data Portal - 2010 Census Tracts




When Mouse is Over

- The map will show the average travel time
in minute of each census tract
Method

The data are cleaned and processed in R and the web application is created using Shiny package in R.

Plot Tab 

- The plot also responds to user selections - The plotly plot is more interactive than regular ggplot
Results

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Mark
Yinuo Yin’s Portfolio 2018