Moby Bikes API

Dublin City Council cc-by Data covers 2020 · dataset listing last updated 2025-12-17T22:56:41.091382

Nearly all Moby bikes are in standard service, but one in five locations show anomalous GPS readings

Why this matters

This follows reporting last year of thousands of fines issued to Moby users for abandoned or badly parked bikes, and complaints from Dublin councillors about bikes being "discarded constantly". Anomalous GPS readings could make it harder for the company to track down misplaced bikes or for users to reliably locate them through the app, undermining fleet management of the dockless scheme.

The fleet is heavily concentrated in one category: 97% of all bike type entries (19,367 of 20,000) are classified as 'DUB-General', with only small shares for 'Workshop' and 'Private' bikes
Location data quality is inconsistent: 21.2% of longitude values (4,239 of 20,000) fall outside expected ranges, suggesting GPS tracking issues or bikes moved outside the normal service area
Mean battery charge fell 15% over the week from 23 to 29 September 2020, dropping from 70.31% to 59.93%, with the steepest single-day decline of 8% occurring on 26-27 September
All bikes in the dataset are electric bikes (20,000 of 20,000 records show 'True' for electric bike status), and none have motor or smart lock features enabled

'DUB-General' accounts for 97% of all BikeTypeName values (19367 of 20000).

View underlying data

Category	Value
DUB-General	19367
Workshop	372
Private	261

By total Battery, 'DUB-General' leads all BikeTypeName categories with 1147288.0, 97% ahead of runner-up 'Workshop' (28829.0).

View underlying data

Category	Value
DUB-General	1147288.0
Workshop	28829.0
Private	16254.0

4239 of 20000 Longitude values (21.2%) are statistical outliers (outside 1.5× IQR).

View underlying data

Statistic	Value
min	-6.371
median	-6.257
max	0.0
count	20000

A caveat worth knowing: This is a snapshot from a one-week period in late September 2020 and may not reflect longer-term fleet composition, seasonal battery performance, or current GPS accuracy

Source & method

Dataset on data.gov.ie: https://data.gov.ie/dataset/moby-bikes

API endpoint used: https://data.smartdublin.ie/dataset/177e32de-cb85-4c1c-bb12-7188c6c49aa1/resource/564f9486-26b1-4e54-8328-bb1113566c86/download/moby-bikes-historical-data-092020.csv

Licence: cc-by

Selected automatically — interestingness score 80/100 (has a time dimension, multiple numeric fields, and/or a categorical breakdown; see the project's scoring method for details).

Published 2026-08-10T10:09:42.464627+00:00.

Generated automatically by Ireland Open Data Analyst — every quantitative claim above was checked against a computed value before publishing.