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For the new The Data and Analytics team of the York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, January 5, 2025, felt much like the Kisses.
The MLAs of the New York State were three and a half years ago Pass a law MTA needs to publish “easily accessible, understandable and usable” data to the public; By January 2022, MTA Chair and CEO Jano Liber formally announced the formation of the new team. In the me, New York City The controversial consistency pricing program, which tolls the bus to the busiest streets of Manhattan, formally kicked in the 21st, but started a long setup process with the transit agency and state fighting cases, politicians and vocal heroes.
So when the program finally started in January, the MTA’s data and analytics team prepared. They were seen at the moment of the tolling in the spreadsheets. “The day it was launched, a field was changed from ‘any revenue collection’ to ‘revenue’,” Andy Kuzimko, deputy chief of the information and analysis team.
A few days later, the team was pumping data to enter the zone in a 10 minute increment and was posting data on his website, so that the New Yorkers could decide whether the traffic program was actually reducing traffic on the city streets. The company has been doing this since then. You – yes, you – MTA’s data view and download Right hereThe
Online web pages are not slick, but they represent a rare and broad public transit win for open-data advocates, who argue that access to public datasets is important for public transparency and skills.
Since 2022, the MTA data and analytics team has grown to 26 full-time employees, who spend their work day centralized information, which was once spread through the entire MTA. The agency, must be clean, big. The largest in the country, it carries about 5.9 million riders through subway, bus, passenger railroad and tunnel and bridge every day. Many numbers to track it.
Really a lot; The MTA now reveals more than 180 datasets. Recent additions include more than one Decades MTA employees while spending “on productive tasks” New dataset Subway-Delie causes events in events; And the speed of the bus on Manhattan Most crowded is the road to the suburbsThe Kuzimco says that more than 30 datasets are being publicly available “in the near future”.
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In an interview, Kuzimco and MTA’s Chief of Strategic Initiatives John Kaufman gave a new culture to share intra-agency data for the renewal program. In 2021, the leadership agency encouraged managers to allow their MTA to enter the “Data Lake”, which could be refined, the information could be taken away in identification and eventually published publicly. (Some MTA data contains passengers personally identified information; the agency has said that this specific information was not published to the public.) The company has also started using new in-house software and equipment, which gives the technical power that has not been before. “We paid zero hours during consultation, this is something we are really proud of during consultation-which we have actually created internal skills in the public sector,” Kuzimko says. “It’s really great.”
“It is rare to share this level of data granularity for a government agency,” Sarah Kaufman says, who runs the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation and once led the agency’s Open-Data program. In fact, it is almost something like the face for the MTA, which Made the habit of following legally developers before 20 Those who scrap the system schedule and root data to create rider-friendly applications.
