New York State Thruway Vehicle Origin-Destination Counts by Class, 2008-2014

Vehicle counts entering and exiting the New York State Thruway are organized by entrance and exit point and by vehicle class. The data covers seven years from 2008 to 2014 and includes counts for cash and E-ZPass transactions. It is provided by data.ny.gov on the Socrata platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing traffic flow patterns between specific interchanges using Entrance and Exit columns.
• Modeling revenue by vehicle class using columns like Class 2H, Class 3H, Class 4H, Class 5H, Class 6H, Class 7H, and Total.
• Comparing commercial versus passenger vehicle traffic over time using Class columns and the Year column.
• Studying the adoption of electronic toll collection by comparing counts implied by E-ZPass and cash data across vehicle classes.

Strengths

• Covers a seven-year time range from 2008 to 2014.
• Includes granular breakdowns by at least 12 distinct vehicle classes.
• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov

Time Range

2008 - 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:28:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State Thruway