Christian Schneider; Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann

Year
2019 (ongoing)

Medium / Material / Technic
Data visualization, 30 sec.

Due to the current climate situation, changes to our traffic and mobility behavior are more necessary than ever. Carsharing is a sensible alternative to private car traffic. It reduces both the number of kilometers driven and the number of vehicles in public spaces.

The »Carsharing – Karlsruhe« project works with open data from Germany’s largest carsharing provider, Flinkster, and presents it to Karlsruhe inhabitants in the form of an animated visualization.

The animation depicts ten vehicles in use in Karlsruhe from February 3 to 9, 2016. Each circle structure shows the use of one car, while the beginning of the rental period is marked at the inner part of the circle. The more circles the visualization shows, the longer the rental period. Line thickness indicates whether the vehicle covered a short (up to 30 km), medium (31–200 km), or long distance (>200 km). The colors distinguish the four car brands available in the network.

Carsharing – Karlsruhe is a part of the Urban Data Patterns project, which develops generative data patterns for various aspects of urban life. The project offers an unfamiliar view of the city and its data from the specific combined perspective of visual art and data science.

Concept/Realization: Christian Schneider; Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann (Hahn+Zimmermann)
Postproduction: Minyoung Kim (Hahn+Zimmermann)
Source: Open Data Flinkster

Websites:

http://urbandatapatterns.ch
https://christianschneider.ch
https://www.hahn-zimmermann.ch