Monthly minimum interval between trains and commercial speed for the lines METRO SP operates: Lines 1, 2, 3, and 15, from January 2021. Sourced from the "oferta" (service supply) tables on the METRO SP transparency portal.
Format
A data frame with the following columns:
- date
First day of the month (Date).
- year
Calendar year (integer).
- line_number
Metro line number: 1, 2, 3, or 15 (integer).
- line_name
English name of the metro line (character).
- line_name_pt
Portuguese name of the metro line (character).
- metric
Metric code (character). One of
"headway"or"speed".- metric_name
Measurement type in English, with its unit (character). One of
"Minimum Interval Between Trains (seconds)"or"Commercial Speed (km/h)".- metric_name_pt
Measurement type in Portuguese, with its unit (character). One of
"Intervalo Mínimo entre Trens (segundos)"or"Velocidade Comercial (km/h)".- value
Seconds for
headway, km/h forspeed(numeric).
Source
Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO SP). https://transparencia.metrosp.com.br/dataset/oferta
Details
Metrics:
headway: Minimum interval between trains, in seconds (Intervalo mínimo entre trens).speed: Commercial speed, in km/h (Velocidade comercial).
METRO publishes these figures with their titles and units only; the source gives no further definition. Speed is published as a whole number.
Lines 4 and 5 are run by concessionaires and do not appear in METRO's tables. METRO marks every month of 2021 and 2022 as affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Months beyond the last published data point for each line are trimmed during assembly.
Data vintage
This dataset is a fixed snapshot, current through August 2026. Freshly
rebuilt data is published with the demand datasets and read with
read_metro_service().
See also
line_transported_monthly for passengers transported
by line.