Hourly bus ridership estimates are provided by bus route and fare payment class. The dataset covers the period from 2020 to 2024 and is published by data.ny.gov, with the latest update in October 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyze ridership patterns by hour using the transit_timestamp and ridership columns.
- Compare fare payment adoption across different bus_route segments using fare_class_category and payment_method.
- Model the relationship between transfers and total ridership for specific fare_class_category groups.
- Forecast hourly demand on specific bus_route lines using historical transit_timestamp and ridership data.
Strengths
- Hourly granularity for detailed temporal analysis.
- Data covers a multi-year period from 2020 to 2024.
Limitations
- Unknown total row count and sample size.
- Geographic coverage is limited to the New York City area.
Provenance
- Source
- data.ny.gov
- Time Range
- 2020-2024
- Freshness
- Updated as of October 2025.
- Geography
- New York City