Permanent Bicycle Counters

This dataset contains counts of bicycles from permanent detectors installed on Toronto streets and multi-use paths. The City uses the data to monitor trends in people cycling and the seasonal use of bicycle lanes. Additional new count stations are being added to the system and the data will be brought online when data validation is completed.

The following files showing different views of the data are available:

Detector Locations (cycling_permanent_counts_locations): Location and metadata of each detector. This table references the City of Toronto's Street Centreline dataset.
Daily Counts (cycling_permanent_counts_daily): Total daily counts by location and direction
15-minute Counts (cycling_permanent_counts_15min): 15-minute counts by direction and location. 1-hour counts are provided if 15-minute counts are not available.
Readme and Data Dictionary (cycling_permanent_counts_readme): Provides a detailed definition of each data table and it's corresponding columns.

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Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	Transportation
Title Title for the Dataset.	Permanent Bicycle Counters
Description A description of the dataset.	This dataset contains counts of bicycles from permanent detectors installed on Toronto streets and multi-use paths. The City uses the data to monitor trends in people cycling and the seasonal use of bicycle lanes. Additional new count stations are being added to the system and the data will be brought online when data validation is completed. The following files showing different views of the data are available: Detector Locations (cycling_permanent_counts_locations): Location and metadata of each detector. This table references the City of Toronto's Street Centreline dataset. Daily Counts (cycling_permanent_counts_daily): Total daily counts by location and direction 15-minute Counts (cycling_permanent_counts_15min): 15-minute counts by direction and location. 1-hour counts are provided if 15-minute counts are not available. Readme and Data Dictionary (cycling_permanent_counts_readme): Provides a detailed definition of each data table and it's corresponding columns.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	activeto bike biking cycling micromobility multimodal
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2025-01-30
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/permanent-bicycle-counters
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Transportation Services, Data & Analytics, [email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.	[email protected]
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

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Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

Permanent Bicycle Counters

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