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Transport

Public Transport Capacity - Monthly Taxi Population

Data from Jan 2005 to Dec 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:46 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

No of taxis by Month

Data explorer

PublicTransportCapacityMonthlyTaxiPopulation.csv (1.2K rows, 25.9 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Company Text	No. of Taxis Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2005-01	Comfort	9952
2005-01	CityCab	4965
2005-01	SMRT	2441
2005-01	YTC	1223
2005-01	Individual Yellow- Top	696
2005-01	Smart	320
2005-01	TransCab	560
2005-01	Premier	370
2005-02	Comfort	10046
2005-02	CityCab	4968

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Company	company	Text	-	-
No. of Taxis	taxi_fleet	Numeric	No. of Taxis	-

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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_884c2efb2103bc66dc2b8725173be85b"
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 - Monthly Taxi Population (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_884c2efb2103bc66dc2b8725173be85b/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Ying_Dan@lta.gov.sg

Created on

25 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)