New York City Real-Time Bus Sign Locations with Route and District Data

Real Time Passenger Information Sign Locations is a dataset from the New York City Department of Transportation. It catalogs bus stop poles upgraded with LED screens and audio announcements for real-time bus arrivals. The data was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial distribution of RTPI signs using Latitude and Longitude columns across BoroName and NTAName.
• Correlate infrastructure deployment (RTPI Complete) with demographic or administrative zones like CounDist, City Council Districts 2, and Community Districts 2.
• Map bus service coverage by joining Routes and StopName with geographic boundaries such as Borough Boundaries 2 and Zip Codes 2.
• Assess project progress and prioritization by examining Release Date, WO #, and Direction fields.
• Model accessibility features by investigating the presence of Wireless Communication and audio announcement capabilities noted in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset contains 30 distinct columns providing administrative, geographic, and project details.
• Includes precise geospatial coordinates (Latitude, Longitude) for each sign location.
• Data is actively maintained, with a last update date in 2026.

Limitations

• Sample size and total row count are unknown, limiting assessment of coverage completeness.
• Class imbalance or geographic bias may exist if deployment is not uniform across all Borough Boundaries 2.
• Temporal coverage (time_range) for the project data is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

New York City Department of Transportation via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Collection Method

Administrative records from a project to upgrade bus stop poles with LED screens and audio systems.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated in March 2026.

Geography

New York City, USA, with borough and neighborhood (NTAName) granularity.