{
  "id": "transit-trips",
  "category": "Mobility",
  "title": "Passenger trips on Victoria regional transit",
  "geography": "BC Transit, Victoria Regional Transit System (Greater Victoria)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "BC Transit and the Victoria Regional Transit Commission",
    "Riders"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many trips do people take on buses in Greater Victoria?",
  "value": 25.58,
  "display_value": "25.6",
  "unit": "million passenger trips in 12 months",
  "period": "12 months to August 2026",
  "period_start": "2025-09",
  "period_end": "2026-08",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "12 months to August 2025",
    "previous_value": 24.6,
    "change_percent": 4.0
  },
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "trend_basis": "25,580.7 thousand trips in the 12 months to August 2026, against 24,598.5 thousand in the 12 months before (sums of the monthly figures). Latest month, August 2026: 2,068.1 thousand (1,880.4 a year earlier).",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More trips means more people are using the buses.",
  "since_text": "August 2026: 2.07 million trips (1.88 million in August 2025).",
  "caveats": [
    "Statistics Canada’s Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey, total passenger trips reported by BC Transit for the Victoria Regional Transit System. The table is in thousands of trips.",
    "The table does not define a trip and starts in January 2023, so it is not compared with BC Transit’s own ridership reports or with years before 2023.",
    "The headline adds up the latest 12 months, so one month does not move it. The latest month is shown as a line."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Passenger trips each month, Victoria Regional Transit System (thousands)",
      "fmt": "int",
      "unit": "thousand trips",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Each month",
          "area": "vrts",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2023-01",
              "value": 1999.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-02",
              "value": 1820.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-03",
              "value": 2120.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-04",
              "value": 1835.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-05",
              "value": 2106.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-06",
              "value": 1901.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-07",
              "value": 1900.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-08",
              "value": 1931.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-09",
              "value": 2367.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-10",
              "value": 2335.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-11",
              "value": 2278.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-12",
              "value": 1947.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-01",
              "value": 2025.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-02",
              "value": 2065.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-03",
              "value": 2184.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-04",
              "value": 1992.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-05",
              "value": 2056.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-06",
              "value": 1872.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-07",
              "value": 2017.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-08",
              "value": 1930.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-09",
              "value": 2308.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-10",
              "value": 2279.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-11",
              "value": 2092.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2024-12",
              "value": 1795.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-01",
              "value": 2257.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-02",
              "value": 1910.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-03",
              "value": 2194.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-04",
              "value": 1996.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-05",
              "value": 2025.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-06",
              "value": 1847.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-07",
              "value": 2009.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-08",
              "value": 1880.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-09",
              "value": 2274.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-10",
              "value": 2295.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-11",
              "value": 2086.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2025-12",
              "value": 1873.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-01",
              "value": 2086.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-02",
              "value": 1897.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-03",
              "value": 2141.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-04",
              "value": 2204.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-05",
              "value": 2242.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-06",
              "value": 2266.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-07",
              "value": 2143.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2026-08",
              "value": 2068.1
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Passenger trips in each calendar year (millions)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "million trips",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Calendar year",
          "area": "vrts",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 24.54
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 24.62
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 24.65
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2023-01",
      "value": 1999.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-02",
      "value": 1820.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-03",
      "value": 2120.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-04",
      "value": 1835.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-05",
      "value": 2106.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-06",
      "value": 1901.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-07",
      "value": 1900.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-08",
      "value": 1931.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-09",
      "value": 2367.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-10",
      "value": 2335.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-11",
      "value": 2278.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-12",
      "value": 1947.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-01",
      "value": 2025.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-02",
      "value": 2065.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-03",
      "value": 2184.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-04",
      "value": 1992.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-05",
      "value": 2056.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-06",
      "value": 1872.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-07",
      "value": 2017.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-08",
      "value": 1930.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-09",
      "value": 2308.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-10",
      "value": 2279.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-11",
      "value": 2092.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-12",
      "value": 1795.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-01",
      "value": 2257.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-02",
      "value": 1910.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-03",
      "value": 2194.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-04",
      "value": 1996.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-05",
      "value": 2025.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-06",
      "value": 1847.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-07",
      "value": 2009.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-08",
      "value": 1880.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-09",
      "value": 2274.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-10",
      "value": 2295.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-11",
      "value": 2086.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-12",
      "value": 1873.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-01",
      "value": 2086.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-02",
      "value": 1897.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-03",
      "value": 2141.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "value": 2204.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-05",
      "value": 2242.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-06",
      "value": 2266.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-07",
      "value": 2143.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-08",
      "value": 2068.1
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly",
  "data_published": "2026-10-21",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, passenger bus and urban transit statistics, by urban transit agency, table 23-10-0307-01",
    "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=2310030701",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8497625b-d769-43d3-9c30-a7bea81eb6d3",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=2310030701",
    "table": "23-10-0307-01",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/transportation",
    "locator": "Table 23-10-0307-01: BC Transit (Victoria Regional Transit System), Urban transit systems, Total passenger trips, September 2025 to August 2026",
    "reads": "August 2026: 2,068.1 thousand; 12-month total 25,580.7 thousand"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 23-10-0307-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T06:22:48Z",
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    {
      "what": "12-month total (thousands)",
      "formula": "sum of the latest 12 monthly figures",
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        "2025-10": 2295.9,
        "2025-11": 2086.4,
        "2025-12": 1873.2,
        "2026-01": 2086.7,
        "2026-02": 1897.1,
        "2026-03": 2141.5,
        "2026-04": 2204.4,
        "2026-05": 2242.7,
        "2026-06": 2266.8,
        "2026-07": 2143.0,
        "2026-08": 2068.1
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      "what": "12-month total a year earlier (thousands)",
      "formula": "sum of the 12 monthly figures before those",
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        "2024-10": 2279.9,
        "2024-11": 2092.7,
        "2024-12": 1795.9,
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        "2025-02": 1910.4,
        "2025-03": 2194.4,
        "2025-04": 1996.3,
        "2025-05": 2025.6,
        "2025-06": 1847.5,
        "2025-07": 2009.4,
        "2025-08": 1880.4
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    {
      "what": "12-month total, longest available (brief v3.2 A2)",
      "formula": "sum of the 12 monthly figures ending in the same month, as far back as the table allows",
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        "2023-10": 2335.9,
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        "2024-05": 2056.8,
        "2024-06": 1872.8,
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    "period": "12 months to August 2024",
    "value": 25.07,
    "basis": "12-month total, same table (the table starts in January 2023)"
  },
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  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "service result",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 4.0% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
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      "period": "12 months to August 2025",
      "value": 24.6,
      "text": "vs Aug 2025: +4.0%"
    },
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      "text": "vs 12 months to August 2024: +2.0%"
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  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "same",
    "label": "About the same",
    "arrow": "▲",
    "rel": 4.0,
    "delta": null,
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    "cur": "12 months to August 2026",
    "why": "The change is 4.0% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "4.0%",
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      "period": "12 months to August 2024",
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      "years": 2
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  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "VTC",
      "name": "Victoria Regional Transit Commission",
      "decides": "Sets bus fares and service standards in Greater Victoria, within budgets set by BC Transit.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "bcta25",
          "label": "British Columbia Transit Act, s. 25 (12)",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96038_01#section25"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "BC",
      "name": "Province of B.C. (BC Transit)",
      "decides": "BC Transit sets the operating and capital budgets and runs the system.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "bcta3",
          "label": "British Columbia Transit Act, s. 3",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96038_01#section3"
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      "next": null
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  "main_decision_maker": "Victoria Regional Transit Commission"
}