Where to put scooter and bike hubs

What it does

Every month: the blocks of your city with the most adults, the stations and bike shares within 500 m, scored by xMap AI, the strong ones approved, saved to Google Drive, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Paris, count who lives around, sort them by adults_20_59 and keep the top 50, count the train stations, bus stations and bike sharing stations within 500 m of each, work out new fields, score and rank them with xMap AI, keep those where fit score ≥ 70, wait for approval, then create file from text in Google Drive, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

Shared scooters and bikes work where many people live a short walk from transit. This flow ranks blocks on both and prepares the request to the city.

Who it is for

Automotive & mobility. Car dealers, rental, parts suppliers and mobility operators following drivers and the places they go. Every use case for automotive & mobility

Best use cases

• A scooter sharing company
• A bike sharing operator
• A city mobility team

What each run gives you

• A shortlist to approve
• Data in Google Drive
• A map

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 12 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. Adults in every blockxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
4. Best 50 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
5. Stations nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
6. Transit pointsLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
7. Rate each block with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. Fit score ≥ 70Logic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
9. Approve the hubsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
10. Save the shortlist to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
11. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
12. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.