MTA Bus Routes Intersecting the New York City Central Business District

New York City's MTA bus routes intersecting or contained within the Central Business District (CBD). The dataset categorizes each route's relationship to the CBD, serving as a dimension table for integration with other bus route-level data. Published by data.ny.gov and last updated in July 2024.

Use Cases

• Filter bus route performance data by 'CBD Relation' to analyze service efficiency within the congestion zone.
• Join datasets on 'Route ID' to correlate CBD-serving routes with ridership or delay statistics.
• Classify routes based on 'CBD Relation' for spatial analysis of bus network coverage in Manhattan's core.

Strengths

• Provides a clear categorical 'CBD Relation' field for filtering routes.
• Designed as a dimension table for easy integration with other bus datasets.
• Maintained by an official state data portal (data.ny.gov).

Limitations

• Contains only two columns ('CBD Relation', 'Route ID'), offering limited standalone detail.
• Row count and total number of covered routes are unknown.
• Geographic scope is limited to routes interacting with a single defined CBD area.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Derived from MTA bus route network data, likely for the Central Business District Tolling Program.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-07-19.

Geography

New York City, specifically Manhattan's Central Business District.