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Public Transport Utilisation - Average Trip Distance

Data from Jan 2004 to Dec 2014Updated 9 months ago

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Average trip distance made islandwide on MRT, LRT, bus & taxi.

Average distance per trip by Year

Data explorer

PublicTransportUtilisationAverageTripDistance.csv (44 rows, 600 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Mode
Text
Average Distance Per Trip
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2004MRT11.5
2004LRT0
2004Bus5.2
2004Taxi8.5
2005MRT11.5
2005LRT0
2005Bus5.4
2005Taxi8.8
2006MRT11.3
2006LRT0

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
ModemodeText--
Average Distance Per Tripave_distance_per_tripNumericKilometres-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1e8c9a3f599bca92c76bdb7d8a52a79a"
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 Utilisation - Average Trip Distance (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved February 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1e8c9a3f599bca92c76bdb7d8a52a79a/view

About this dataset

Contact

CHUA_Xin_Yun@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)