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Transport

Public Transport Utilisation - Average Trip Distance

Data from Jan 2004 to Dec 2014

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:26 SGT

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%
2004	MRT	11.5
2004	LRT	0
2004	Bus	5.2
2004	Taxi	8.5
2005	MRT	11.5
2005	LRT	0
2005	Bus	5.4
2005	Taxi	8.8
2006	MRT	11.3
2006	LRT	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Mode	mode	Text	-	-
Average Distance Per Trip	ave_distance_per_trip	Numeric	Kilometres	-

Analyse this dataset with Colab Notebook

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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 July 14, 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)