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Average Weekday Passenger Entries by Station

Source: R/data.R
station_averages.Rd

Monthly average of weekday (business day) passenger entries for each station in the São Paulo metro system. Data covers January 2016 through 2026 for Lines 1, 2, 3, and 15; Line 4 from January 2012; Line 5 from January 2016. Sourced from the METRO SP transparency portal and the Insper Dataverse.

Usage

station_averages

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

date

First day of the month (Date).

line_number

Metro line number (integer).

station_name

Name of the metro station (character).

avg_passenger

Average weekday passenger entries (numeric).

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

Only the weekday average (mdu) metric is available at the station level. For line-level data with all five metrics, see passengers_entrance. Months beyond the last published data point for each line are trimmed during assembly; interior NAs (e.g. operational outages) are preserved.

Station coverage by line and source:

  • Line 1 (Azul/Blue): 23 stations, January 2016–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 2 (Verde/Green): 14 stations, January 2016–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 3 (Vermelha/Red): 18 stations, January 2016–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 4 (Amarela/Yellow): January 2012–2026 (Insper Dataverse).

  • Line 5 (Lilás/Lilac): January 2016–July 2018 (METRO SP portal) and August 2018–2026 (Insper Dataverse).

  • Line 15 (Prata/Silver): 2 stations in 2016–2017 (assisted operation: Vila Prudente and Oratório), 10 stations in 2020, 11 from January 2021 onward (Jardim Colonial added), January 2016–2026 (METRO SP portal).

METRO published January–September 2017 only as PDFs, with no machine-readable equivalent. Those months were transcribed from the reports and reconciled against the published line totals.

February–June 2016 carries a defect in the Line 1 values. Across those five months the station figures fall well short of what the surrounding months and the line total in passengers_entrance imply, and they are misallocated across stations, with Santa Cruz and Sé too high and São Bento and Portuguesa-Tietê too low. The defect comes from METRO's retroactive publication of 2016 and is not corrected here, so exclude those five months from station-level baselines.

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

station_daily for daily station entries, passengers_entrance for monthly line-level totals.