NYC Pedestrian Volume Map

Pedestrian Segments

Color by

Time of Day

Day type

Time period

Journey Type

Home to Work

Home to Subway

Home to School

Home to Park

Home to Amenity

Work to Subway

Work to Amenity

Amenity to Subway

Amenity to Amenity

Uncalibrated. Spatial variation is meaningful; absolute values are not.

Weekday vs Weekend

Average predicted volume (AM + MD + PM). Color and width show direction and magnitude of difference.

Weekday higherWeekend higher

Color Scale

Pedestrian Volume

Low–High

Dataset

      
          NYC Pedestrian Volume Map

          Prepared by: MIT City Form Lab

          Based on NYC LION sidewalk layer [57]

          Cleaning: Automated + manual correction, validated against 2019 aerial imagery in ArcGIS

          Contact: Andres Sevtsuk (asevtsuk@mit.edu)

          Last modified: September 14, 2025

          Note: Network includes sidewalks + crosswalks; excludes many park paths; not routing-optimized

Sevtsuk, A., Basu, R., Liu, L., Kollar, J. (2025) Nature Cities
Spatial Distribution of Foot-traffic in New York City and Applications for Urban Planning