How Is the MTD’s Ridership Data Collected and Reported?

The MTD counts riders as they board our buses and other services vehicles. The ridership data collected is very important, so the MTD takes special care to accurately record the number of riders. Riders are counted as they pass through the door by the MTD’s Automatic Passenger Counters (APCs) installed on all buses.

The APCs count passengers using an Infrared Motion Analyzer (IRMA) as they board. Passive and active components of this system allow detection of the number of people moving through the door as well as their direction of movement. The system discriminates between those boarding and alighting the vehicle, and only counts people when the doors are open.

The counts are stored in an on-board computer and are then uploaded to a WLAN and evaluated with the MTD’s MOBILEstatistics system. Why Collect This Data? The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires that transit authorities receiving FTA funding submit performance data to its National Transit Database (NTD).

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