Longboarding in Berkeley CaliforniaFinding the ideal cafe from the CampanileArash Malek . Jon Arcellana . Lindsay Tamura

Introduction:Longboarding has become an increasingly popular sport among students at UC Berkeley. Longboards are e�cient means of transportation, able to transfer one a reasonable distance to a desired location. Recently, a school club called the “Longboard Connection at Berkeley” has been formed to unite skaters and further spread the sport. Due to its popularity, the Longboard Connection club asked us to determine the best routes to the most popular cafés within a 1.5 mile radius of the UC Berkeley campus.

Method:We �rst started by doing a general survey among Berkeley students and asked what their favorite local cafés were. Afterwards, we Googled information on those cafés and narrowed our list down to 5 popular cafés located around the UC Berkeley campus. We based the narrowing process on distance from the Campanile—this is a well known spot in UC Berkeley and we felt it was a suitable landmark. We digitized the points we acquired from google into arcmap and then we conducted a 1.5 mi radius bu�er around the campanile. Several cafés fell within this radius so we used the information from Google to determine the top 5 highest rated cafés to conduct our research on.

Conclusion:After looking at all three maps we concluded that the best cafe to study is Royal Ground cafe located on Shattuck Channing. Using the bike route to go down Channing it is a slight down slope. This street also contains no transit lines and is far enough away from the police stations to avoid the police giving out tickets. We found that the quickest pre set route by arcmap doesn’t �t our ideal route.

Coming in a close second place is Elmwood cafe located onCollege avenue. Taking Bowditch and Hillegass to the cafelocation is the most ideal route. Following the wide streets with bike lanes and no public transit, the user can get there fast and safe.

The other three cafe locations did not make our list of ideal cafe’s based on our constraints.

Co�ee shops:

Guerila Cafe on Shattuck

Au Coquelet Cafe on University

Royal Cafe on Shattuck

Sweetheart Cafe on Durant

Elmwood Cafe on College ave.

Cafe

Near Police station

Less than 5% slope

Opportunities/Constraints

Yes

Yes

No

No

Bad

Bad

Ideal

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-330 ft Radius

-650 ft

-2,000 ft

-3200 ft

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Legend:

-Police Stations

The red lines of this map show constraints of areas within a 1.5 mile radius of the Berkeley Campus. These lines are AC Transit lines that contain more car tra�c. The Blue lines of this map show bike routes around campus which are opportunities with less car tra�c and wider lanes.

2500 1250 0 2500 feet

Factors

Constraint:

-Transit Lines of Congestion

Opportunities:

-Bike Routes/ Less Congestion

Constraints and Opportunities

The purple areas of this map show service area’s that the Policecan reach within a reasonable time.

Police Service Areas

This map is representing slop ratio and its relationship with the top 5 co�ee shops we concluded from our survey. The co�ee shops are shown on this axon map with a co�ee mug. The best routes to take are highlighted in Red. Ideal surfaces are surfaces with a slope between 1-5 degrees.

Slope > 5 deg.

Slope = 0 deg.

Slope < 5 deg.

The Slopes of Berkeley

Criteria:-Away from police stations to avoid unnecessary tickets. Recently UC policehave been giving out $250 tickets for biking and skateboarding on campus.-The slopes should not exceed 5 degrees. This allows the rider to easily godown the hill and still ride back up.-The routes we chose need to be away from transit lines (constraint)because of the congestion caused by busses. We chose bike lanesas an opportunity because they are typically wider and containless tra�c.

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