Long Island Rail Road Safety and Grade Crossing Incidents, 2019 Onwards

MTA LIRR Safety and Grade Crossing Incidents: Beginning 2019 provides monthly safety performance metrics for the Long Island Rail Road. The dataset is published by data.ny.gov and was last updated on May 15, 2026. It tracks indicators such as accident rates and incident counts to monitor safety outcomes over time.

Use Cases

• Analyze monthly trends in safety performance using the Month and Indicator columns.
• Compare the Quantity of different safety incidents across various Indicator types.
• Model seasonal patterns in accident rates using the Month column as a temporal feature.
• Monitor progress towards safety targets by tracking the Quantity of specific Indicators over time.

Strengths

• Data is updated regularly, with a last update timestamp of 2026-05-15 15:21:07.
• Provides a structured time-series view of safety metrics with clear Month and Indicator columns.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Collection Method

Likely collected as part of the Long Island Rail Road's internal safety reporting and monitoring processes.

Time Range

Beginning 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 15:21:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Long Island Rail Road service area, New York, USA