New York City School Bus and Special Transport Vehicle Inventory

OPT maintains an inventory of all vehicles used by contracted bus vendors for the New York City Department of Education. The active vehicle inventory includes school buses, ambulances, and coach buses, with specific vehicles designated for students requiring curb-to-curb service under an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). This dataset is provided by the City of New York and was last updated on March 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze fleet composition and vehicle types based on the described inventory of school buses, ambulances, and coach buses.
• Monitor vendor compliance and resource allocation based on the active vehicle inventory for each contracted bus vendor.
• Plan transportation services for students with special needs based on the mention of vehicles for curb-to-curb IEP service.

Strengths

• Data is actively maintained by the Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT) for a major city department.
• Distinguishes between vehicles for general education and those for students with specific IEP transportation needs.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of New York, Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT)

Collection Method

Inventory maintained for contracted bus vendors serving the Department of Education.

Time Range

Current active inventory as of the last update.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-08 02:26:25.553439; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, United States