Rides per capita data tracks the average number of bus and light rail transit trips taken annually by each Edmonton resident. The dataset includes metrics for total ridership and population across recorded periods. It is published by data.edmonton.ca and was last updated in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in Rides Per Capita over time using the Period and Year columns.
- Correlate Total Ridership changes with Population fluctuations across different years.
- Forecast future Rides Per Capita based on historical Period and Year data.
- Benchmark annual transit usage efficiency by calculating ratios from Total Ridership and Population.
Strengths
- Includes five distinct columns for analysis: Period, Population, Rides Per Capita, Year, Total Ridership.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
Limitations
- The dataset scope is limited to a single city (Edmonton), reducing generalizability.
- Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data granularity or value distribution.
- Key metadata such as row count, data size, and license are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- data.edmonton.ca
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated March 2026.
- Geography
- Edmonton, Canada