ENCHANT Data Romania Green Friday

The Municipality of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, introduced a campaign called ”Green Friday”, aimed at promoting urban mobility prioritization and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of this initiative, free public transportation is provided to residents every Friday. The campaign has been implemented by the municipality since June 2021. In the scope of this intervention, a public transportation dataset was collected. Between March 2021 and December 2022, the municipality collected data on the total number of commuters across all bus lines for each Wednesday and Friday using the Thoreb data collection system.  Thoreb has a declared technical error of +/-5%.  Additionally, information about the number of buses in operation on each of these days was recorded. In total, 94 Wednesdays and 94 Fridays with a combined total of over 21 million trips counted during this observation period.