The Department of Transport and Planning provides monthly average patronage counts for metropolitan and regional train, bus, and tram services in Victoria. Data is broken down by day types (normal weekday, school holiday weekday, weekend) and individual days of the week, with patronage estimates derived from myki ticketing data and supplementary surveys. This information is updated monthly with a two-month lag.
Use Cases
- Forecasting public transport demand based on day-of-week and holiday patterns mentioned in the description
- Analyzing the impact of school holidays on patronage based on the defined day types
- Comparing ridership trends between metropolitan and regional services as described
- Estimating total passenger volumes by applying the described transaction rate methodology
Strengths
- Data is updated on a monthly basis, providing regular insights.
- Patronage estimates are supplemented by survey data to determine transaction rates, as described.
- Metropolitan train patronage uses barrier count data where available from January 2021.
Limitations
- Patronage estimates are rounded to the nearest 50, which may obscure fine-grained trends.
- Data for regional bus services does not include patronage from services not enabled for myki.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Department of Transport and Planning
- Collection Method
- Derived from myki ticketing data and supplemented by patronage surveys; metropolitan train data uses barrier counts where available.
- Freshness
- Updated monthly with a two-month lag.
- Geography
- Victoria, Australia