MTA Bus Stops with Usage and Route Descriptors

New York City Transit bus stops include point features for each route and direction within a bundle. The data contains stop usage flags and basic route descriptors for mapping and stop-level analyses.

Use Cases

• Map bus stop locations using the provided point features and coordinate tags for spatial visualization.
• Analyze stop-level passenger activity by examining usage flags such as boarding and alighting indicators.
• Identify key timepoints and CBD locations for route planning using the is_in_CBD and timepoint flags.
• Associate stops with specific routes and service types like Express Bus using the basic route descriptors.

Strengths

• Data is maintained by the State of New York, an authoritative source for transit information.
• Includes multiple usage flags per stop, such as revenue, timepoint, boarding, alighting, and CBD status.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including XML, CSV, RDF, and JSON.

Limitations

• The dataset's size, row count, and specific column schema are unknown, limiting pre-analysis assessment.
• The license is unspecified, which may create uncertainty for commercial or redistribution use cases.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-28.

Geography

New York City, based on tags and organizational context.