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Transport

Public Transport Utilisation - Average Public Transport Ridership

Data from Jan 1995 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 09 Jul 2025, 09:54 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Public Transport Ridership in Singapore (1995–2024) provides the average daily ridership for MRT, LRT, and public buses in Singapore from 1995 to 2024. It tracks long-term public transport usage trends and highlights shifts in commuting patterns across different transit modes. Useful for urban planning, transport policy analysis, and infrastructure forecasting. Updated annually.

For more information, visit the https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/static-data.html.

Data explorer

PublicTransportUtilisationAveragePublicTransportRidership.csv (90 rows, 1.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Mode
Text
Ridership
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Bus33.3%
LRT33.3%
MRT33.3%
(Null)0.0%
1995MRT740000
1995LRT0
1995Bus3009000
1996MRT850000
1996LRT0
1996Bus3118000
1997MRT911000
1997LRT0
1997Bus3116000
1998MRT946000

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
ModemodeText--
RidershipridershipText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_75248cf2fbf340de6a746dc91ec9223c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Land Transport Authority. (2015). Public Transport Utilisation - Average Public Transport Ridership (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_75248cf2fbf340de6a746dc91ec9223c/view

About this dataset

Contact

CHUA_Xin_Yun@lta.gov.sg

Created on

06 Jul 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)