MTA Bus Wait Assessment: Beginning 2015 measures how evenly buses are spaced on New York City routes. The dataset is provided by data.ny.gov and was last updated on March 20, 2026. It includes columns for route_id, borough, month, period, and calculated wait_assessment scores.
Use Cases
- Analyze seasonal wait_assessment trends by borough and month for service planning.
- Compare operational performance (wait_assessment) between day_type (e.g., weekday vs. weekend) and trip_type.
- Correlate the number_of_scheduled_trips with the number_of_trips_passing_wait to assess schedule adherence on specific route_id segments.
Strengths
- Includes temporal granularity with month, period, and day_type columns.
- Provides operational metrics (wait_assessment, number_of_scheduled_trips) for specific route_id and borough.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- data.ny.gov
- Time Range
- Beginning 2015
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-20 15:32:47; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New York City, New York (implied by MTA and borough column)