Transit Profile

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Financial	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998^P
Passenger operating revenues ($ millions)
Passenger fares	1,335^I	1,639^I	2,556^I	^R5,891^I	6,756^I	6,801^I	7,416^I	^R7,546^I	7,717^I
Motor bus	N	N	N	2,967	3,250	3,287	3,515	^R3,558	3,703
Heavy rail	N	N	N	1,741	1,976	2,018	2,322	2,351	2,297
Light rail	N	N	N	83	135	127	144	139	150
Trolley bus	N	N	N	46	55	54	55	57	55
Demand responsive	N	N	N	41	171	146	157	^R170	153
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	56	41	60	54	^R51	69
Commuter rail	N	N	N	952	1,083	1,078	1,146	1,178	1,255
Other^b	N	N	N	26	45	46	24	^R42	35
Other operating revenue	72^x	68^x	248^x	895^x	2,271^x	2,812^x	^R2,928^x	^R3,308^x	2,875^x
Total operating revenues	1,407	1,707	2,805	6,786	9,027	9,613	^R10,345	^R10,854	10,592
Operating assistance^c
State and local	N	N	2,611	8,297	8,026	7,811	8,210	^R8,014	7,579
Federal	N	N	1,093	970	916	817	^R596	^R647	727
Total operating assistance	N	N	3,705	9,267	8,941	8,628	8,807	^R8,661	8,305
Total revenues	1,407	1,707	6,510	16,053	17,968	18,241	19,151	^R19,515	18,897
Operating expenses ($ millions)
Motor bus	N	N	N	8,903^j	10,144^j	10,321^j	10,575^j	^R10,944^j	11,048^j
Heavy rail	N	N	N	3,825	3,786	3,523	3,402	3,474	3,530
Light rail	N	N	N	237	413	376	442	^R473	503
Trolley bus	N	N	N	109	133	139	135	140	147
Demand responsive	N	N	N	518	943	1,000	1,187	^R1,285	1,273
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	171	200	210	183	^R221	267
Commuter rail	N	N	N	1,939	2,228	2,211	2,294	^R2,278	2,365
Other^b	N	N	N	41	73	67	124	^R122	117
Total operating expenses^d	N	N	6,247	15,742	17,920	17,849	18,341	^R18,936	19,249
Depreciation and amortization	N	N	278^k	1,593^k	2,769^k	2,601^k	2,885^k	^R3,106^k	3,349^k
Other reconciling items	N	N	186	644	964	1,091	1,034	^R1,117	1,116
Total expenses	1,377	1,996	6,711	17,979	21,653	21,540	22,260	^R23,159	23,715
Average passenger revenue per passenger-mile ($)
Motor bus	N	N	N	0.14^il	0.17^il	0.17^il	0.18^il	0.18^il	0.18^il
Heavy rail	N	N	N	0.15	0.19	0.19	0.20	0.20	0.19
Light rail	N	N	N	0.15	0.18	0.15	0.15	0.13	0.13
Trolley bus	N	N	N	0.24	0.29	0.29	0.30	0.30	0.30
Demand responsive	N	N	N	0.10	0.30	0.29	0.24	^R0.23	0.15
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	0.20	0.14	0.23	0.21	^R0.17	0.20
Commuter rail	N	N	N	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.14	0.15	0.14
Other^b	N	N	N	0.21	0.23	0.17	0.07	^R0.11	0.09
All modes	N	N	N	0.14	0.17	^R0.17	0.18	0.18	0.17
Average passenger fare ($)
Motor bus	N	N	N	0.52	0.62	0.66	0.70	0.70	0.69
Heavy rail	N	N	N	0.74	0.90	0.99	1.08	0.97	0.96
Light rail	N	N	N	0.47	0.66	0.50	0.55	0.53	0.55
Trolley bus	N	N	N	0.36	0.47	0.45	0.47	0.47	0.47
Demand responsive	N	N	N	0.60	2.04	2.26	2.21	1.83	1.60
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	1.11	0.87	1.31	1.12	^R0.99	1.32
Commuter rail	N	N	N	2.90	3.19	3.13	3.24	3.30	3.28
Other^b	N	N	N	0.90	1.28	1.57	1.33	0.66	0.62
All modes	0	0	0	0.67	0.85	0.87	0.93	0.89	0.87
Inventory
Number of systems
Motor bus	1,236ⁿ	1,075ⁿ	1,022ⁿ	2,685ⁿ	2,250ⁿ	2,250ⁿ	2,250ⁿ	2,250ⁿ	2,262ⁿ
Heavy rail	31	15	11	12	14	14	14	14	14
Light rail	~	~	9	17	22	22	22	22	23
Trolley bus	19	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Demand responsive	N	N	N	3,193	5,214	5,214	5,214	5,214	5,254
Ferry boat^a	N	N	16	27	25	25	25	25	28
Commuter rail	N	N	18	14	16	16	16	18	18
Other^b	N	N	5	35	69	69	69	70	72
Total^e	1,286	1,096	1,055	5,078	5,973	5,973	5,973	5,975	6,000
Number of vehicles
Motor bus	49,600^o	49,700^o	59,411^o	58,714^o	68,123^o	67,107^o	71,678^o	^R72,770^o	74,641^o
Heavy rail	9,010	9,286	9,641	10,419	10,138	10,157	10,201	10,242	10,301
Light rail	2,856	1,262	1,013	913	1,054	999	1,140	1,229	1,205
Trolley bus	3,826	1,050	823	832	877	885	871	859	880
Demand responsive	N	N	N	16,471	28,729	29,352	30,804	^R32,509	32,899
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	108	110	110	109	^R134	124
Commuter rail	N	N	4,500	4,415	4,517	4,565	4,665	4,943	4,907
Other^b	N	N	N	1,089	2,395	2,699	2,894	^R3,674	4,013
Total	65,292	61,298	75,388	92,961	115,943	115,874	122,362	^R126,360	128,970
Number of employees^f
Motor bus	121,300^p	101,598^p	N	162,189^p	174,373^p	181,973^p	190,152^p	^R196,861	193,542
Heavy rail	35,100	36,442	N	46,102	51,062	^R45,644	45,793	45,935	45,155
Light rail	+	+	N	4,066	5,140	4,935	5,728	^R5,940	6,048
Trolley bus	+	+	N	1,925	1,848	1,871	2,084	2,037	2,047
Demand responsive	N	N	N	22,740	35,450	39,882	44,667	^R44,029	47,509
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	2,813	2,764	2,697	2,830	^R3,166	3,433
Commuter rail	N	N	N	21,443	22,596	22,320	22,604	^R21,651	22,399
Other^b	N	N	N	898	854	1,169	1,086	^R1,140	1,246
Total	156,400	138,040	189,300	262,176	294,087	300,491	314,944	^R320,759	321,379
Peformance
Vehicle-miles (millions)
Motor bus	1,576^q	1,409^q	1,677^q	2,130^q	2,162^q	2,184^q	2,221^q	^R2,245^q	2,291^q
Heavy rail	391	407	385	537	532	537	543	558	566
Light rail	75	34	18	24	34	35	38	41	43
Trolley bus	101	33	13	14	14	14	14	14	14
Demand responsive	N	N	N	306	464	507	548	^R585	698
Ferry boat^a	N	N	2	2	2	3	3	^R3	2
Commuter rail	N	N	179	213	231	238	242	251	265
Other^b	N	N	13	16	30	33	43	^R50	53
Total	2,143	1,883	2,287	3,242	3,468	3,550	3,650	^R3,746	3,932
Unlinked passenger trips (millions)
Motor bus	N	5,034^r	5,837^r	5,677^r	4,871^r	4,848	4,887^r	^R5,013^r	5,387^r
Heavy rail	N	1,881	2,108	2,346	2,169	2,033	2,157	2,430	2,393
Light rail	N	124	133	175	284	251	261	^R262	275
Trolley bus	N	182	142	126	118	119	117	121	117
Demand responsive	N	N	-	68	^R88	88	93	^R99	95
Ferry boat^a	N	N	63	50	47	47	48	^R51	52
Commuter rail	N	N	280	328	339	344	352	357	382
Other^b	N	N	4	29	33	33	33	^R41	45
Total	N	7,332	8,567	8,799	7,949	7,763	7,948	^R8,374	8,746
Passenger-miles (millions)
Motor bus	N	N	21,790^y	20,981^y	18,832^y	18,818^y	19,096^y	^R19,604^y	20,602^y
Heavy rail	N	N	10,558	11,475	10,668	10,559	11,530	12,056	12,284
Light rail	N	N	381	571	833	860	957	^R1,035	1,118
Trolley bus	N	N	219	193	187	187	184	189	182
Demand responsive	N	N	N	431	577	607	656	^R754	1,012
Ferry boat^a	N	N	c	286	260	260	256	^R294	345
Commuter rail	N	N	6,516	7,082	7,996	8,244	8,351	8,038	8,716
Other^b	N	N	390	124	232	273	348	^R369	397
Total	N	N	39,854	41,143	39,585	39,808	41,378	^R42,339	44,656
Average trip length (miles)
Motor bus	N	N	N	N	4^s	4^s	4^s	4^s	4^s
Heavy rail	N	N	N	N	5	5	5	5	5
Light rail	N	N	N	N	4	3	4	4	4
Trolley bus	N	N	N	N	2	2	2	2	2
Demand responsive	N	N	N	N	7	8	9	10	11
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	N	6	6	5	^R6	6
Commuter rail	N	N	N	N	24	24	24	23	23
Vanpool	N	N	N	N	32	35	34	33	36
Other^b	N	N	N	N	1	1	1	1	1
All modes	N	N	N	N	5	5	5	5	5
Average speed (miles per hour)
Motor bus	N	N	N	N	13^t	13^t	13^t	13^t	13^t
Heavy rail	N	N	N	N	21	21	21	21	21
Light rail	N	N	N	N	14	14	14	16	16
Trolley bus	N	N	N	N	8	8	8	8	8
Demand responsive	N	N	N	N	14	15	15	15	17
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	N	8	6	7	^R7	8
Commuter rail	N	N	N	N	34	34	33	34	32
Vanpool	N	N	N	N	33	35	37	36	37
Other^b	N	N	N	N	6	6	7	7	7
All modes	N	N	N	N	15	15	15	15	15
Energy consumption, diesel (million gallons)
Motor bus	N	N	N	563^u	565^u	564^u	578^u	^R598	554
Heavy rail	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Light rail	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Trolley bus	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Demand responsive	N	N	N	15	30	29	31	^R32	44
Ferry boat^a	N	N	N	20	21	22	22	24	24
Commuter rail	N	N	N	53	62	63	62	^R63	78
Other^b	N	N	N	^R<1	< 1	< 1	< 1	< 1	<1
Total	208^u	271^u	431^u	651	678	678	693	^R717	700
Energy Ccnsumption (million gallons)
Gasoline and other nondiesel fuels^g	192^v	68^v	11^v	33^v	60^v	61^v	61^v	^R59^v	50^v
Compressed natural gas	U	U	U	U	5	11	15	^R24	31
Total	192	69	11	34	65	71	76	^R83	81
Energy consumption (million kWh)
Motor bus	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Heavy rail	N	N	N	3,284^w	3,431^w	3,401^w	3,332^w	3,253^w	3,280^w
Light rail	N	N	N	239	282	288	321	^R361	383
Trolley bus	N	N	N	69	103	100	69	78	74
Demand responsive	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Ferry boat^a	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Commuter rail	N	N	N	1,226	1,244	1,253	1,255	^R1,270	1,480
Other^b	N	N	N	19	21	26	30	^R26	33
Total	2,908^w	2,561^w	2,446^w	4,837	5,081	5,068	5,007	^R4,988	5,250
Safety^h
Fatalities, all modes	N	N	N	339	320	274	264	275	286
Injured persons, all modes	N	N	N	54,556	58,193	57,196	55,288	56,132	55,990
Incidents, all modes	N	N	N	90,163	70,693	62,471	59,392	^R61,561	60,094

KEY: ~ = included in heavy rail figure; + = included in motor bus figure; N = data do not exist; NA = not applicable; P = preliminary; R = revised.
^aExcludes international, rural, rural interstate, island and urban park ferries.
^bIncludes cable car, inclined plane, aerial tramway, monorail, vanpool, and automated guideway.
^cBeginning in 1992, local operating assistance and other revenue declined by about $500 million due to change in accounting procedures at the New York City Transit Authority. Beginning in 1992, total operating expense declined by about $400 million due to a change in accounting procedures at the New York City Transit Authority.
^dIncluded in other.
^eThe total figure represents the number of transit agencies. It is not the sum of all modes since many agencies oeprate more than one mode.
^fBased on employee equivalents of 2,080 hours equals one employee; beginning in 1993, based on number of actual employees.
^gLiquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, methanol, propane, and other nondeisel fuels, except compressed natural gas.
SOURCES: Unless otherwise noted, refer to chapter tables for sources.
^hU.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration.Safety Management Information Statistics (SAMIS), (Washington, DC: Annual reports).
ⁱAmerican Public Transit Association, 2000 Transportation Fact Book (Washington, DC: 2000), tables 21, 22,D2 and similar tables for prior years.
^jIbid., 2000 edition table25, and similar tables in earlier years.
^kIbid., 2000 edition table24, and similar tables in earlier years.
^lIbid., 2000 edition table18, and similar tables in earlier years.
^mIbid., 2000 edition table20, and similar tables in earlier years.
ⁿIbid., 2000 edition table1, and similar tables in earlier years.
^oIbid., 2000 edition table46, and similar tables in earlier years.
^pIbid., 2000 edition table62, and similar tables in earlier years.
^qIbid., 2000 edition table42, and similar tables in earlier years.
^rIbid., 2000 edition table26, and similar tables in earlier years.
^sIbid., 2000 edition table39, and similar tables in earlier years.
^tIbid., 2000 edition table44, and similar tables in earlier years.
^uIbid., 2000 edition table65, and similar tables in earlier years.
^vIbid., 2000 edition table66, and similar tables in earlier years.
^wIbid., 2000 edition table67, and similar tables in earlier years.
^xIbid., 2000 edition table17, and similar tables in earlier years.
^yIbid., 2000 edition table30, and similar tables in earlier years.

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