Table 4
Transit: 1999 Data (unless noted)

Vehicles1 (1998)
" 55,661 buses (also included in buses under highway),"
  17.9 billion passenger-miles
" 11,357 heavy and light rail, 13.4 billion passenger-miles"
" 5,535 commuter rail, 8.7 billion passenger-miles"
" 97 ferries, 280 million passenger-miles"
" 20,042 demand responsive, 513 million passenger-miles"
" 7,654 other vehicles, 654 million passenger-miles"
Transit agencies2
 554 federally funded urbanized area agencies
" 1,074 federally funded rural agencies"
" 3,594 federally funded specialized transportation agencies"
 753 other agencies
" 321,000 employees"
"1 U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database 1998, available at http://www.fta.dot.gov/ntl/databases/index.html, as of Oct. 23, 2000."
"2 American Public Transportation Association, Transit Factbook 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999)."
"SOURCE: Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001)."