About

The Project

Ride the Line is a data capstone project comparing two of the world’s busiest urban rail systems: the MTA’s Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT) group in New York City, and JR East’s Yamanote Line in Tokyo.

Both systems move millions of people daily through dense, high-demand corridors. But they were built in different eras, operate under different institutional structures, and make very different amounts of their data publicly available. This project asks: what can we actually compare, and what does that comparison reveal about service design, reliability, and the value of open transit data?

About Me

Hiii! My name is Andreina Abreu and I am a graduate student studying Data Analytics & Visualization at The CUNY Graduate Center.

Acknowledgments

Data sourced from the MTA Open Data Portal, the Open Data Platform for Public Transportation (ODPT), and JR East’s official passenger statistics.

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For full methodology and analysis, see the accompanying white paper.