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Passengers Transported by Metro SP Line

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passengers_transported.Rd

Monthly count of passengers transported by São Paulo metro, aggregated by metro line and reported in thousands of passengers. Data covers January 2016 through 2026 for Lines 1, 2, 3, and 15, and January 2016 through August 2018 for Line 5. Sourced from the METRO SP transparency portal.

Usage

passengers_transported

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

date

First day of the month (Date).

line_number

Metro line number: 1, 2, 3, 5, 15, or 99 for the network total (integer).

metric_abb

Abbreviated metric code (character). One of: "total", "mdu", "msa", "mdo", "max".

value

Passenger count, in thousands of passengers (numeric).

metric

Measurement type in English (character). One of: "Total", "Average on Business Days", "Average on Saturdays", "Average on Sundays", "Daily Peak".

metric_pt

Measurement type in Portuguese (character). One of: "Total", "Média dos Dias Úteis", "Média dos Sábados", "Média dos Domingos", "Máxima Diária".

line_name

English name of the metro line (character).

line_name_pt

Portuguese name of the metro line (character).

year

Calendar year (integer).

Source

Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO SP). https://transparencia.metrosp.com.br/dataset/demanda

Details

Values are in thousands of passengers, as published by METRO SP. The other demand datasets count individual passengers, so multiply by 1000 before comparing value with passengers_entrance.

A transported passenger is one who crossed a turnstile plus one who transferred between lines at an interchange station, so transported counts run above entry counts for the same line and month.

All data comes from the METRO SP transparency portal. Line 4 (Amarela) is not available in this dataset — the Insper Dataverse source does not include transported counts for Lines 4 or 5. Line 5 (Lilás) is available from the METRO portal only for January 2016–August 2018: the line was handed over to ViaMobilidade in August 2018 and the portal stopped reporting its transported counts afterwards. The network total (line_number = 99) may not be available for all years.

METRO published January–September 2017 only as PDFs, with no machine-readable equivalent. Those months were transcribed from the reports and reconciled against the printed line and network totals. June 2017 is the one month whose network total is missing, because the report reprinted May's network column; the per-line values for June are sound.

Metrics:

  • total: Total passengers in the month.

  • mdu: Average daily entries on business days (Média dos Dias Úteis).

  • msa: Average daily entries on Saturdays (Média dos Sábados).

  • mdo: Average daily entries on Sundays (Média dos Domingos).

  • max: Daily maximum (Máxima Diária).

Months beyond the last published data point for each line are trimmed during assembly; interior NAs (e.g. operational outages) are preserved.

Data vintage

This dataset is a fixed snapshot, current through July 2026. It ships with the package so examples, vignettes, and offline analysis always have data to hand. The snapshot moves only when the column schema changes or a release deliberately carries new data, not when new months are published upstream.

METRO SP publishes on an irregular schedule and revises already-published years, so the numbers here will drift from the source over time. Freshly rebuilt data is published on every pipeline run at https://github.com/viniciusoike/metrosp/releases.

See also

passengers_entrance for entry counts, station_averages for station-level weekday averages.