FOI request detail

Oyster data and train timetables

Request ID: FOI-2379-1617
Date published: 27 March 2017

You asked
We're making a research on how people in peak hours make their route choices depending on their predictions of overcrowding and on the real situation in the Underground. 1) We would like to get information like this https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/oyster-card-journey-information but more recent one. (If it is possible - 2015 or 2016, if it's not - then the most recent one) 2) We would like to get timetables of train arrivals on London Underground for the year you could provide data on Oyster card journeys. 3) Do you have data on the quantity of people entering and exiting different stations of London Underground during peak and non-peak hours? Is it possible to get dwell time on different stations in order to calculate the quantity of people who could get in one train or maybe you have data on train capacity in peak/ non-peak hours? (this information also for the year you could provide data on Oyster card journeys)

We answered

TfL Ref: 2379-1617

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 27 February 2017 asking for information about Oyster journey information as below.

 

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. You asked:

 

  1. We would like to get information like this https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/oyster-card-journey-information but more recent one. (If it is possible - 2015 or 2016, if it's not - then the most recent one)

     



  2. We would like to get timetables of train arrivals on London Underground for the year you could provide data on Oyster card journeys.

 

3)  Do you have data on the quantity of people entering and exiting different stations of London Underground during peak and non-peak hours? Is it possible to get dwell time on different stations in order to calculate the quantity of people who could get in one train or maybe you have data on train capacity in peak/ non-peak hours? (this information also for the year you could provide data on Oyster card journeys)

 

The information you asked for is available on our website using the following links:

 

https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2015/12/09/is-customer-flow-data-useful-to-developers/

 

We have not prepared a 5% sample of data, but instead this is a set of entries and exits and a set of flow data. Full details about the data set and an explanation of why we have created and what it entails is in the blog post.

 

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-open-data#on-this-page-6

 

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/working-timetables

 

https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2017/03/09/new-tube-customer-volumes-and-movements-data/

 

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 feel free 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

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