Dataset
Streets Hourly Bike Counts
<p>In 2016, we began a new annual bicycle count program using automated technology. We collect data at almost 90 locations across the City a few times per year.<br /><br />This dataset contains hourly traffic count observations collected by the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) at designated…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Transportation Department
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 26
- Keywords
- BTD, bikes, street, transportation
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/streets-hourly-bike-counts
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 42420327 | b38a9ab27604be47f5b62ea648c2aaa5fd10cf5635d99361cfb3f09fa5cce6e0 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
count_id | text | |
location_name | text | |
month | text | |
season | text | |
year | text | |
date | text | |
direction | text | |
time | text | |
bike | text | |
motorcycle | text | |
car_lgv | text | |
bus | text | |
su_truck | text | |
mu_truck | text | |
mv_total | text | |
total | text | |
bike_pct | text | |
quarter | text | |
hour_txt | text | |
weather | text | |
peak | text | |
lat | text | |
long | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:streets-hourly-bike-counts
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/streets-hourly-bike-counts
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/streets-hourly-bike-counts.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- streets-hourly-bike-counts
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |