PATH ridership stats

Cleaned + Plotted Port Authority data from https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/about/stats.html

• Cleaned data
  • Jan 2012 – Oct 2023
  • Closer look at 2020-Present
  • Weekends only
  • Weekends (2020-Present)
  • Weekdays, Grouped by Month
  • Weekends, Grouped by Month
  • Weekdays vs. Weekends
  • Weekdays vs. Weekends, compared to 2019
• Methods
  • PATH Monthly Data
    • 1. Download "PATH Ridership Reports (By Month)"
    • 2. Use Tabula to extract tables
    • 3. Process each year's data, output .pqts
    • 4. Combine all years' data
  • Bridge & Tunnel Data

Cleaned data

• data/all.pqt
• data/all.xlsx
• Google Sheet

Jan 2012 – Oct 2023

Closer look at 2020-Present

Weekends only

Weekends (2020-Present)

Weekdays, Grouped by Month

Weekends, Grouped by Month

Weekdays vs. Weekends

Weekdays vs. Weekends, compared to 2019

As of September 2024:

• weekday ridership was 69.2% of Sept '19 (pre-COVID)
• weekend ridership was 99.5% of Sept '19 (pre-COVID)

Methods

PATH Monthly Data

1. Download "PATH Ridership Reports (By Month)"

From www.panynj.gov/path/en/about/stats.html, to data/:

y=2024
name=$y-PATH-Monthly-Ridership-Report.pdf
wget -O data/$name https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/path/about/statistics/$name

name=$y-PATH-Hourly-Ridership-Report.pdf
wget -O data/$name https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/path/about/statistics/$name

1b. Use Tabula to extract tables

This only has to be done once, the resulting templates are saved in templates/.

2. Process each year's data, output .pqts

See:

• monthly.ipynb
• outputs in data/*.pqt

y=2024; juq papermill run -p year=$y monthly.ipynb out/monthly-$y.ipynb

3. Combine all years' data

• See months.ipynb
• Output data/all.pqt, data/all.xlsx, img/weekdays.png

Bridge & Tunnel Data

Merge per-year PDFs into one:

/opt/homebrew/bin/gs \
  -o merged.pdf \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
  -dPDFFitPage \
  -g12984x10033 \
  -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \ 
  traffic-e-zpass-usage-20*

cf. SO.