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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.

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_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 April 4, 2026 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)

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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)

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

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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%
1995	MRT	740000
1995	LRT	0
1995	Bus	3009000
1996	MRT	850000
1996	LRT	0
1996	Bus	3118000
1997	MRT	911000
1997	LRT	0
1997	Bus	3116000
1998	MRT	946000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Mode	mode	Text	-	-
Ridership	ridership	Text	-	-

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