MTA Bus Route Segment Speeds and Travel Times

Average speeds and travel times are calculated for bus segments between major stops, aggregated by month, day of week, and hour. The dataset includes road distance, bus trip counts, route types, boroughs, and geographic coordinates for timepoints. Data is provided by data.ny.gov and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling congestion patterns by correlating Average Road Speed with Hour of Day and Borough.
• Optimizing bus schedules by analyzing Average Travel Time between Timepoint Stop Name pairs across different Days of Week.
• Identifying slow route segments by joining Road Distance with Average Travel Time and Route Type.
• Assessing service reliability by examining Bus Trip Count variations by Month and Route ID.

Strengths

• Data includes geographic coordinates (Timepoint Stop Latitude/Longitude) for spatial analysis.
• Aggregation by multiple time dimensions: Month, Day of Week, and Hour of Day.
• Covers multiple bus service types via the Route Type column (Local, Limited, SBS, Express, School).

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of statistical significance.
• Data begins in 2025, offering limited historical perspective for long-term trend analysis.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Aggregated from bus telemetry between timepoints.

Time Range

Beginning 2025

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

New York City bus routes, segmented by Borough.