MTA Subway Turnstile Entry And Exit Counts For 2017

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority provides archived data on subway turnstile usage for 2017. It records entry and exit counts per control area unit, captured by the SCP device. The dataset is maintained by data.ny.gov for archival purposes.

Use Cases

• Analyze station-level passenger traffic trends over time using the Date, Time, Entries, and Exits columns.
• Compare ridership volumes across different subway lines using the Line Name and Station columns.
• Model daily or hourly entry/exit patterns for specific control areas using the SCP and Unit columns.
• Investigate the relationship between station characteristics (from the Description column) and observed ridership.

Strengths

• Contains data for a full calendar year (2017).
• Provides granular turnstile-level counts via the SCP column.
• Includes multiple identifying dimensions like Station, Line Name, and Division.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and marked as purely for archival purposes.
• Specific row count and data completeness are unknown.
• More detailed ridership data is available in a newer hourly dataset.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Time Range

2017

Freshness

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

Geography

New York City subway system