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Public Transport Capacity - Average Daily Distance Travelled and Bus Routes in Operation

Public Transport Capacity - Average Daily Distance Travelled

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Public Transport Capacity - Average Daily Distance Travelled

Data from Jan 2004 to Dec 2013

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:23 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Distance travelled by train and bus

Mrt, Bus by Year

Data explorer

PublicTransportCapacityAverageDailyDistanceTravelled.csv (11 rows, 211 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Mrt
Numeric
Bus
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
200440700819400
200541400822200
200641200833000
200742200844200
200845200826800
200949400849400
201055400839700
201161500818700
201272400817500
201372400856600

Column legend

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

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_120bba76c28dd4706e0cf85693827e64"
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. (2016). Public Transport Capacity - Average Daily Distance Travelled (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_120bba76c28dd4706e0cf85693827e64/view

About this dataset

Contact

lta-data_mgmt_office@lta.gov.sg

Created on

26 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)