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City of Philadelphia

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  • Type: City Government
  • Total datasets: 23
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Datasets (23)

  • SEPTA Ridership Statistics Views: 159

    Stop summary files represent average daily ridership at the stop level over the course of the relevant period. Trolley ridership data was generated using automatic passenger counters (APCs). Bus data is calculated from a variety of sources depending on the route and year. The bus data files…

  • Licenses and Inspections Building and Zoning Permits Views: 37

    The Department of Licenses & Inspections reviews construction plans and conducts building inspections to ensure the safety of the workers and the public. [Zoning permits](https://business.phila.gov/zoning-basics/) are issued to authorize new construction or additions to a building or to…

  • Licenses and Inspections Business Licenses Views: 27

    Information regarding applications for licenses required by the City to conduct certain business activities. Licenses are required for individuals and businesses to engage in select commercial activities. For example, vendors and restaurants require a license in order to sell goods and food and…

  • Crime Incidents Views: 22

    Crime incidents from the Philadelphia Police Department. Part I crimes include violent offenses such as aggravated assault, rape, arson, among others. Part II crimes include simple assault, prostitution, gambling, fraud, and other non-violent offenses. **Please note that this is a very large…

  • Complaints Against Police Views: 13

    As part of the Philadelphia Police Department's (PPD) accountability processes, PPD publishes four datasets: The Complaints Against Police (CAP) dataset documents the civilian complaints alleging police misconduct; the CAP Findings dataset provides demographic details of the police officer…

  • 311 Service and Information Requests Views: 10

    This represents all service and information requests since December 8th, 2014 submitted to Philly311 via the 311 mobile application, calls, walk-ins, emails, the 311 website or social media. **Please note that this is a very large dataset. Unless you are comfortable working with APIs, we…

  • Licenses and Inspections Code Violations Views: 9

    Violations issued by the Department of Licenses and Inspections in reference to the Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code. **Please note that L&I Violations is a very large dataset. To see all violations, download all datasets for all years.** **If you are comfortable with…

  • SEPTA Real-time Map Views: 7

    The SEPTA Real-time Map combines the results of several APIs, including bus, trolley and regional rail locations and alerts.

  • SEPTA GTFS Views: 6

    SEPTA schedule and location information in GTFS format. Additional information can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/septadev/GTFS/) or Google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/septadev)

  • SEPTA Performance Dashboards Views: 5

    Visual dashboards that describe ridership and performance metrics.

  • SEPTA Regional Rail APIs Views: 5

    The TrainView API returns information on all current regional rail trains. <br><br> The NextToArrive API returns departure and arrival times between two different stations. Please refer to the Regional Rail Inputs page (see below) to see all valid inputs. - req1 is the starting Regional Rail…

  • Licenses and Inspections Property History Views: 4

    This dataset documents the history of permits, licenses, violations, and appeals for each property in the City.

  • Licenses and Inspections Commercial Activity Licenses Views: 3

    Commercial Activity Licenses are required by entities doing business in the City of Philadelphia. Information includes license number, application date, issuance date, applicant information, business entity name and other related information.

  • Licenses and Inspections Complaints Views: 3

    Complaints that were entered via 311 or by an individual in the department. Complaints were formerly known as 'Service Requests' in L&I's old enterprise database called 'Hansen', which was decommissioned in March 2020. Each row in the table represents a single 'call'. Calls are sometimes…

  • SEPTA Bus Detours Views: 3

    Provides access to current SEPTA bus detours via an API. All detours for all routes can be accessed at https://www3.septa.org/api/BusDetours/.<br> To specify detours for a specific route, add the parameter: route number to the URL. <br> Example: https://www3.septa.org/api/BusDetours/23

  • SEPTA Elevator Outages Views: 3

    Returns a list of all elevator outages. The API does not require any paramters.

  • SEPTA TransitView Views: 3

    TransitView provides real-time information about SEPTA buses and trolleys. TransitViewAll returns all current bus and trolley locations. TrnasitView accepts a route number and retuns locations for all vehicles on that route. Example: https://www3.septa.org/api/TransitView/index.php?route=33…

  • Licenses and Inspections: Case Investigations Views: 2

    All investigations completed on a property with property maintenance violations by an inspector of the Department of Licenses & Inspections. **Please note that this is a very large dataset. To see all investigations, download all datasets for all years.** **If you are comfortable with APIs,…

  • SEPTA Alerts Views: 2

    Provides access to SEPTA travel alerts via an API. All travel alerts can be viewed at https://www3.septa.org/api/Alerts/.<br> <br> To retrieve travel alerts for a specific route or line, add the parameter: route/line name to the URL.<br> <br>Example:…

  • SEPTA SMS Transit Views: 1

    SEPTA SMS Transit enables users to request scheduled trip information via text message. Users subscribe to the service via text. After setting up an account, users can receive schedule information by texting the Stop ID number for a bus, trolley, or subway stop to 41411. They will receive a return…

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