VTPreston_Tez
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When do the figures come out? I heard March but I've found nothing yet on Wikipedia...
When do the figures come out? I heard March but I've found nothing yet on Wikipedia...
I have varying memories of the Station usage reports, last couple of times have been Feb but before that was March, as you will note the last update was 10th of Feb last year. I did send an query asking when it would be released a month ago but got no reply, in previous years its appeared in their release schedule but at the moment doesnt appear too.
Yeah they have improved in accuracy over the years, the pte inclusion was actually a fair bit back. At the moment the Dft only collects service crowding data for London but that should be widening soon. They are also supposed to be moving to direct use of ticket data rather than having to infer, next round of franchises also have mandatory requirements for franchises to install onboard passenger counting equipment (various devices can be used mounted above the doors, cameras doing computerised optical counts, IR counting heat signatures or scales measuring weight) so they will know exactly how many board and exit at each station, that would be 3 or 4 years off.