Introduction

This dashboard focuses on the New York City Metropolitan Authority (NYC MTA) Bus System. The two main components analyzed are bus speeds and ridership. The bus speed information is provided at a monthly level of granularity with borough, route, and type of service information beginning in 2015. The ridership information is provided at the daily level, with ridership for the entire bus system, subway system, and other transit options provided by the NYC MTA.

Data Source: New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Data Links:
Speeds: https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Bus-Speeds-Beginning-2015/cudb-vcni
Ridership: https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Daily-Ridership-Data-Beginning-2020/vxuj-8kew

Bus Speeds

*Note regarding change in bus speed reporting metrics:
Prior to January 2018, the NYC MTA reported bus speeds aggregated by borough, trip type, and period, and did not report by specific route. This led to the reporting of 28 entries each month due to there being five boroughs, three trip types (with the exception of Manhattan which only has two), and 2 periods (peak and off-peak). Beginning in January 2018, individual route information was added creating nearly 600 data points each month providing a more reliable overview of the system.

Bus Ridership

Ridership by Day

Ridership and Speed

Spread of Bus Speeds

Map of NYC

Time of Day

Miles Driven per by Borough

Ridership by System

Serivce and Speeds