Pace831 Posted October 17, 2020 Report Share Posted October 17, 2020 I've recently discovered that Pace GIS maps seem to include, among other things, ridership data for each individual stop. Previously, this information was thought to be unavailable to the general public. To view this data, find APC_Ridership in the Layer List, and select View in Attribute Table from the options for that layer. The table that will appear includes fields called SUM_AVG_ON and SUM_AVG_OFF. My best guess is that these were calculated by using the door counters to determine how many people got on and off at each stop on each trip. The per-trip numbers were averaged over a seasonal period, then summed to get the average boardings and alightings per day per stop. The STOP_ID field is also interesting. It appears the first three digits represent the route number, but the stop ID doesn't change if its corresponding route is discontinued or rerouted. For example, route 508 has stop IDs beginning with 501, 502, 503, and 506. Those stops were served by the respective routes before 508 was created in 2008. I'm sure there are plenty of other things here that might be of interest. This could be a useful reference for some of our forum discussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railguy Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Very interesting. Do CTA or Metra provide this level of detailed data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroShadow Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 On 1/22/2022 at 8:41 PM, Railguy said: Very interesting. Do CTA or Metra provide this level of detailed data? Not available to the public, at least. The GIS team at Pace has done an amazing job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewFlyerMCI Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 6 hours ago, MetroShadow said: Not available to the public, at least. The GIS team at Pace has done an amazing job. Metra has the boarding/alighting survey from 2018 available on RTAMS, don't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcmetro Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 CTA has bus stop level boarding and alighting data on the City of Chicago Data Portal, but it's from 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroShadow Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 4:57 PM, NewFlyerMCI said: Metra has the boarding/alighting survey from 2018 available on RTAMS, don't they? I'd be surprised if they didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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