provide daily usage of london underground
Request ID: FOI-1081-2021
Date published: 22 September 2020
You asked
Dear Transport for London,
Could you kindly provide daily usage of london underground stations showing entries and exits at each station for the current year.
This is in order to undestand the covid-19 pandemic and the use of public transportation.
What Im most interested on, is to know how many people uses the Undergrund daily.
We answered
TfL Ref 1081-2021
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14 September 2020 asking for information about London Underground passenger numbers.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.
We publish network usage data on our website including network statistics and Rolling Origin & Destination Survey (RODS) data: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-open-data
In addition, information on seasonal variations can be obtained from our Quarterly Performance reports: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/quarterly-progress-reports
For example, the 2020/21 Q1 report provides information for April to end June. The following Q2 report due to be published next will cover July to September 2021.
We have published some journey data specifically for period of the pandemic which can be located using the following link: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/coronavirus-publications.
We also publish annual entry and exit data broken down by Tube station in our London Underground performance reports available here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/underground-services-performance. The most current data we hold is to December 2019.
In accordance with section 21 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply you with a copy of the requested information as it is already accessible to you elsewhere.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely
Sara Thomas
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London
Back to top
