The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) has introduced its open data portal that’s accessible to riders, researchers, planners and the general public where they can view and download ridership data, stops and routes – over 6,000 lines of data.
The open data portal has four main features:
· Crunch it: Find average weekday ridership per month, per route or per mode, going back to January 2017. Then this can be downloaded and applied to other to datasets.
· List it: View a full list of stops or routes by a specific city, county, or zip code and then download that list.
· Visualize it: See routes, stops and service in one place on the Web Map Application. Here, viewers can highlight a specific area if it doesn’t fit neatly into zip codes or city lines.
· Search it: Viewers can search throughout the entire data portal, whether it’s by city, zip code, county, address, stop or line.
View the data online or download it as an Excel file, or to keep the data with its geographic elements, download the .kml or .kmz file for Google Earth.
The UTA’s Open Data Portal provides a lot of data in an easy to use format all in one spot. The data is available on UTA’s website. In addition to the portal, the planning department and analytics department have plans to continue to expand available data in the portal. Soon, they’ll add the Bus Stop Master Plan and the Transit Propensity Index.
