MTA Subway Turnstile Usage Records from 2015

New York City's MTA turnstile data provides entry and exit counts for individual control areas at subway stations for the year 2015. This retired dataset is maintained for archival purposes by data.ny.gov, with more detailed hourly ridership data now available separately. It includes columns for Unit, Station, SCP, Entries, Exits, Time, Division, Date, Description, C/A, and Line Name.

Use Cases

• Modeling station-level passenger traffic by analyzing time-series patterns in the Entries and Exits columns.
• Comparing ridership volume across different subway lines using the Line Name and Division fields.
• Identifying peak usage times for specific stations by aggregating the Time and Date columns.
• Analyzing the operational footprint of control areas (C/A) and specific turnstile units (SCP).

Strengths

• Data is structured with 11 distinct columns including temporal and categorical features.
• Archived dataset provides a consistent snapshot of turnstile activity for a specific year (2015).

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and may not reflect current data collection methods or completeness.
• Specific row count, sample size, and data collection frequency are unknown.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov, the official open data portal for New York State.

Collection Method

Collected from Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) subway turnstile systems.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Dataset is retired and archived; last metadata update was 2024-07-29.

Geography

New York City Metropolitan Area, focusing on MTA subway stations.