Transportation
01
39 million trips a month, holding steady.
Public transport logged 39.5 million trips in August 2026 — every LRT, MRT, monorail, KTM and Rapid bus service in the official daily feed, summed for the month, -1.5% on a year earlier. The chapter reads the feed live and computes everything on this page from it.
Trips · August 2026
39.5M
all 13 services in the feed, summed for the month
Average weekday
1.41M
trips per Monday–Friday day; weekends average 71% of that
Vs August 2019
+18.3%
same calendar month, across the 4 services already reporting in 2019 — not the whole network
Busiest service
21%
MRT Kajang Line — 8,402,066 trips in August 2026, the largest share of the month
Official latestDaily official data, published in arrears — the feed currently runs to 31 August 2026 (data as of 2026-08-31 23:59), so the latest complete month is August 2026. And it counts trips, not people: one person transferring between lines is counted once per service boarded.
Prasarana & Ministry of Transport — ridership_headline (daily public-transport ridership), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Daily trips per service since 1 January 2019, aggregated to monthly sums on this page. Ridership counts trips, not unique people — one person transferring between lines is counted once per service boarded. Data as of 2026-08-31 23:59; a null means a service was not yet reporting, and is never treated as zero.
The long view
02
The collapse is on the chart. So is the comeback.
In April 2020, every service in this feed together logged 1.3 million trips — the floor of the whole record. August 2026 sits 31 times higher, at 39.5 million.
Read the shape honestly: part of the rise since April 2020 is recovery, and part is coverage — 9 of the 13 services only begin reporting after the series starts, so later months sum more columns than early ones. The per-service table below keeps those two stories separate.
Line by line
03
MRT Kajang Line carries roughly one trip in 5.
Every service in the feed, ranked by August 2026 trips. The 2019 comparison exists only for services already reporting then — for the rest, the honest answer is a dash.
| Service | Trips · August 2026 | Share of month | Vs 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRT Kajang Line | 8,402,066 | 21.3% | +51.2% |
| LRT Kelana Jaya Line | 7,706,015 | 19.5% | -6.5% |
| Rapid Bus (KL) | 6,598,671 | 16.7% | — in series from January 2022 |
| LRT Ampang Line | 6,205,763 | 15.7% | +11.3% |
| MRT Putrajaya Line | 5,144,265 | 13.0% | — in series from June 2022 |
| Monorail Line | 1,849,520 | 4.7% | +76.3% |
| Rapid Bus (Penang) | 1,501,958 | 3.8% | — in series from January 2022 |
| KTM Komuter | 588,857 | 1.5% | — in series from September 2023 |
| KTMB ETS | 570,571 | 1.4% | — in series from October 2020 |
| KTM Komuter Utara | 555,282 | 1.4% | — in series from October 2020 |
| KTM Shuttle Tebrau | 266,180 | 0.7% | — in series from June 2022 |
| KTM Intercity | 100,428 | 0.3% | — in series from October 2020 |
| Rapid Bus (Kuantan) | 0 | 0.0% | — in series from January 2022 |
All 13 services in the ridership_headline feed, August 2026. “Vs 2019” compares the same calendar month (August 2019) for services already reporting then.
9 of the 13 services enter the series after it begins — visible in the data as nulls until their first reported day: KTMB ETS, KTM Komuter Utara and KTM Intercity (October 2020); Rapid Bus (KL), Rapid Bus (Penang) and Rapid Bus (Kuantan) (January 2022); MRT Putrajaya Line and KTM Shuttle Tebrau (June 2022); KTM Komuter (September 2023). The data says when reporting begins, not when a line opened — the two can differ, so this page claims only the first.
Rapid Bus (Kuantan) has reported zero trips since 15 December 2025 — a reported zero, which is data, not a gap in the feed.
Did you know
The busiest day on record is 31 December 2025.
1,708,310 trips in a single day, across every service in the feed — 34% above an average day of that month, out of 2,800 days recorded.
Computed from the data.gov.my daily ridership series
The feed's newest column logged 12.2M trips in its first full year.
KTM Komuter first reports on 10 September 2023 — null until then — and recorded 12,182,679 trips across 2024, its first complete calendar year in the data.
Computed from the data.gov.my daily ridership series
Weekends run at 71% of a weekday.
In August 2026, Monday–Friday days averaged 1,405,606 trips; Saturdays and Sundays averaged 997,185. The network is above all a commuting machine.
Computed from the data.gov.my daily ridership series
Deep data
03.3
A trip is not a passenger.
One person riding a Rapid bus to the LRT and changing to the MRT is three trips in this feed. Ridership measures how hard the network works, not how many people use it — the distinction sits under every number on this page.
Days in the record
2,800
daily rows from 1 January 2019 to 31 August 2026, no gaps
Services tracked
13
10 rail services and 3 Rapid bus networks
Latest day in feed
31 August 2026
daily granularity, published in arrears rather than live
Data as of
2026-08-31
as stamped by the source; this page refetches four times a day
Trips, not people
Every transfer adds a trip, so the headline overstates unique riders by design. That makes the series excellent for load and trend, and wrong for questions like how many Malaysians ride transit.
What this feed covers
10 rail services — LRT, MRT, the Monorail and KTM's network — plus Rapid buses in KL, Penang and Kuantan. Private cars, motorcycles, taxis and e-hailing, school and factory buses, and other operators' services are not in this dataset, so nothing here describes them.
The 2019 baseline is narrow
Only 4 services report from the start — LRT Kelana Jaya Line, LRT Ampang Line, MRT Kajang Line and Monorail Line. Every vs-2019 figure on this page compares those services alone; the rest of the network simply has no 2019 in this data.
Prasarana & Ministry of Transport — ridership_headline (daily public-transport ridership), via the data.gov.my open API · retrieved 2026-10-12 23:07 UTC
Daily trips per service since 1 January 2019, aggregated to monthly sums on this page. Ridership counts trips, not unique people — one person transferring between lines is counted once per service boarded. Data as of 2026-08-31 23:59; a null means a service was not yet reporting, and is never treated as zero.
Ridership is demand meeting supply — the tracks, roads and stations it runs on live in Infrastructure, and what the fare means against a household budget lives in Cost of Living.