CyRide Automatic Passenger Counter Data, October 2021 - June 2022

The Ames Transit Agency, doing business as CyRide, is the public transportation agency serving the Ames, Iowa metropolitan area, including the campus of Iowa State University. In 2021, CyRide installed automatic passenger counters (APCs) across the fixed-route bus fleet. This allowed the agency to begin collecting per-bus, per-stop rider information, which is assembled in the attached data. Capacity levels on buses were also published via rider apps to allow passengers to select rides on vehicles with lower occupancy. These files could be used to model transit activity in a university community, analyze how transit usage changes as COVID-19 risks subside, or provide a general view of transportation within a small urban community.

以CyRide为运营品牌的艾姆斯交通局（Ames Transit Agency），是服务于艾奥瓦州艾姆斯都会区（含爱荷华州立大学校园）的公共交通运营机构。2021年，CyRide在全部固定线路公交车队中安装了自动乘客计数器（automatic passenger counters, APCs），由此得以开始采集单公交、单站点的乘客出行数据，相关信息已整合至本附随数据集内。同时，公交车辆的载客容量信息也通过乘客出行应用对外发布，方便乘客选择载客率更低的乘车班次。本数据集可用于建模大学社区内的公共交通运行活动，分析新冠疫情风险消退后公共交通出行量的变化规律，亦可用于展现小型城市社区的公共交通整体运行概况。