MTA Subway Turnstile Entry and Exit Counts for 2019

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority provides archived records of subway turnstile usage. The dataset contains entry and exit counts for individual control areas at specific stations. It was published by data.ny.gov and covers the year 2019.

Use Cases

• Model station-level passenger traffic by aggregating daily totals from the Entries and Exits columns per Station and Date.
• Analyze temporal ridership patterns by joining the Time and Date columns to study hourly or daily fluctuations.
• Compare usage across different subway lines using the Line Name and Division columns to identify high-traffic corridors.
• Calculate net passenger flow per control area by subtracting Exits from Entries for records identified by SCP, C/A, and Unit.

Strengths

• Provides station-level granularity with columns for Station, Line Name, and Division.
• Includes temporal precision with separate Date and Time columns for time-series analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and marked for archival purposes, indicating it is not maintained or updated.
• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, making initial assessment of data volume difficult.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov, representing the New York State government.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2024-07-29, but data covers 2019 and is archived.

Geography

New York City, USA, specifically MTA subway stations.