Daily Bicycle Trip Counts on Montreal Bike Paths

Daily counts of bicycle trips on designated bike paths, calculated on a daily basis. The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec via the open_canada platform and was last updated on April 22, 2026. The data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and is available in CSV format.

Use Cases

• Model daily and seasonal bicycle traffic patterns based on the daily trip counts.
• Assess the impact of weather or events on bicycle usage based on the time-series nature of the data.
• Support urban mobility planning and bike path infrastructure investment based on observed traffic volumes.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The dataset represents a time-series with daily granularity.

Limitations

• The description notes the data has not been updated since the end of March 2026; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Number of trips calculated on a daily basis, likely from permanent cycling counters.

Time Range

Daily basis, with data current until at least March 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:44:06.138065.

Geography

Likely Montreal, Québec, Canada, based on the reference to the 'Permanent Cycling Counters' dataset on the Montreal open data portal.