Winnipeg Transit provides estimated average daily boardings and alightings for bus routes, aggregated by route, stop, time of day, and day type. Data is collected from automated passenger counting sensors on approximately 20% of the bus fleet and extrapolated. Estimates are updated seasonally and published within 30 days of each schedule period ending.
Use Cases
- Analyze ridership patterns by correlating Average Boardings with Route Number, Time Period, and Day Type.
- Identify high-demand stops and routes by aggregating Average Alightings by Stop Number and Route Name.
- Model seasonal transit demand using Schedule Period Start Date and Schedule Period End Date fields.
- Compare peak versus off-peak usage by filtering Time Period fields like AM Peak and PM Peak against Average Boardings.
- Assess service coverage by mapping ridership data from the Location column against geographic areas.
Strengths
- Data collection uses automated sensors on approximately 20% of the bus fleet.
- Aggregation provides multiple dimensions: route, stop, time of day, and day type.
- Regular updates occur within 30 days after each of four seasonal schedule periods.
Limitations
- Estimates are extrapolated from a sensor sample covering only 20% of buses.
- Detection errors and small sample sizes may cause boarding and alighting counts to mismatch.
- On-request passenger counts are excluded from the dataset.
Provenance
- Source
- data.winnipeg.ca via Socrata platform.
- Collection Method
- Extrapolated from automated passenger counting sensors on bus doors.
- Time Range
- Seasonal schedule periods (e.g., September-December, December-April).
- Freshness
- Updated seasonally; last update was 2025-12-29.
- Geography
- Winnipeg, Canada.