Five-year capital investment plans detail projects the Metropolitan Transportation Authority commits to funding. This dataset covers the 2025-2029 plan, succeeding the 2020-2024 plan. It is published by data.ny.gov and was last updated in February 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyze budget allocation by Agency Name and Category Description to identify top-funded transportation sectors.
- Track project lineage and hierarchy using the Parent ACEP and ACEP codes.
- Categorize capital needs by linking Needs Code and Element Description to project titles.
- Compare project scope and funding across agencies like Metro-North, LIRR, and MTA Bus using Agency Code and Total Budget.
Strengths
- Structured data with 12 columns detailing project codes, descriptions, and budgets.
- Explicitly defined five-year temporal scope for the 2025-2029 capital plan.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, and XML.
Limitations
- Sample data and total row count are unavailable, making initial assessment of data volume difficult.
- The dataset lacks historical project performance data, limiting trend analysis to planned budgets only.
Provenance
- Source
- data.ny.gov, the official open data portal for New York State.
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Covers the planned investment period of 2025-2029.
- Freshness
- Last updated on 2025-02-13.
- Geography
- Primarily the service area of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York State, including New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.