A Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA) is the geographic area determined by agreement between the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the area and the Governor, in which the metropolitan transportation planning process is carried out. MPO planning area boundaries are established according to the federal metropolitan planning regulations (23 CFR 450, Subpart C) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2007-02-14/pdf/07-493.pdf. The MPA must encompass at a minimum the Census Urbanized Area and the contiguous geographic area likely to become urbanized within the next 20 years. This data was constructed from the NYS civil boundary files that are owned and maintained by the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC). Federal regulation requires that states designate MPOs in Census Urbanized Areas with populations of 50,000 or more. MPOs are responsible for ensuring that federal-aid transportation projects in the metropolitan area result from a continuing, comprehensive and cooperative transportation planning process. New York State has thirteen MPOs.

This dataset provides information on the actual end-to-end running times for subway trips between their origin and destination stations, including the average, and 25th, 50th (median), and 75th percentile running times in minutes, along with the scheduled end-to-end running time in minutes for these trips.

Data is available for a combination of each month, day type (Weekday, Saturday, Sunday), time period (AM Peak, Midday, PM Peak, Evening, Overnight), subway line, and stop path id (each distinct set of subway stops made by trains). The dataset also includes the direction, number of stops, origin station, and destination station for each stop path, the distance and average actual speed in miles per hour along the stop path, and the actual and scheduled number of trains running along the stop path.