Table 4-4: Urban Transit Ridership by State and Transit Mode: 2008
Table 4-4: Urban Transit Ridership by State and Transit Mode: 2008
| State | Number of agencies reporting | Annual unlinked passenger trips (thousands) | Percent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor bus | Heavy rail | Light rail | Commuter rail | Other | |||
| Alabama | 10 | 7,243 | 82.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17.3 |
| Alaska | 4 | 5,047 | 89.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.6 |
| Arizona | 12 | 92,735 | 96.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| Arkansas | 4 | 4,327 | 94.3 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| California | 84 | 1,452,341 | 69.3 | 10.9 | 10.9 | 1.8 | 7.1 |
| Colorado | 7 | 109,666 | 78.9 | 0.0 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| Connecticut | 17 | 42,037 | 93.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 5.7 |
| Delaware | 1 | 9,483 | 91.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 425,237 | 31.9 | 67.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Florida | 32 | 271,846 | 85.1 | 6.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 6.5 |
| Georgia | 15 | 173,391 | 50.6 | 47.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Hawaii | 2 | 71,310 | 97.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| Idaho | 2 | 1,810 | 91.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| Illinois | 15 | 668,465 | 57.8 | 29.6 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 1.0 |
| Indiana | 20 | 33,333 | 84.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 3.5 |
| Iowa | 11 | 19,970 | 95.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.6 |
| Kansas | 5 | 5,773 | 89.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.3 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 25,488 | 97.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| Louisiana | 8 | 27,619 | 76.4 | 0.0 | 15.3 | 0.0 | 8.3 |
| Maine | 6 | 3,420 | 74.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.9 | 12.6 |
| Maryland | 12 | 156,213 | 79.6 | 8.9 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 1.3 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | 398,281 | 32.1 | 37.3 | 18.5 | 9.8 | 2.2 |
| Michigan | 20 | 99,941 | 93.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.6 |
| Minnesota | 6 | 102,135 | 87.7 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| Mississippi | 2 | 1,320 | 89.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.2 |
| Missouri | 6 | 75,230 | 72.0 | 0.0 | 26.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| Montana | 3 | 1,971 | 94.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| Nebraska | 2 | 6,134 | 98.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Nevada | 2 | 75,467 | 98.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 1,303 | 96.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| New Jersey | 15 | 418,155 | 50.2 | 22.5 | 5.1 | 20.2 | 2.0 |
| New Mexico | 3 | 12,048 | 97.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 |
| New York | 42 | 3,831,923 | 30.7 | 63.6 | 0.1 | 4.8 | 0.8 |
| North Carolina | 14 | 53,885 | 92.2 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| North Dakota | 2 | 678 | 64.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 35.8 |
| Ohio | 23 | 131,454 | 87.0 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 4.7 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 6,949 | 95.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.9 |
| Oregon | 6 | 122,877 | 66.8 | 0.0 | 31.7 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | 445,423 | 61.7 | 20.7 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 1.6 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 21,916 | 96.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| South Carolina | 8 | 8,428 | 90.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.1 |
| South Dakota | 2 | 1,355 | 84.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.6 |
| Tennessee | 8 | 30,447 | 91.5 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 4.6 |
| Texas | 29 | 298,091 | 85.0 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 0.9 | 3.6 |
| Utah | 2 | 43,670 | 58.0 | 0.0 | 33.8 | 3.3 | 5.0 |
| Vermont | 1 | 2,290 | 97.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| Virginia | 19 | 78,061 | 93.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 2.3 |
| Washington | 18 | 238,892 | 73.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 24.5 |
| West Virginia | 4 | 4,527 | 98.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | 80,129 | 96.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 439 | 81.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18.9 |
| United States, total1 | 574 | 10,200,168 | 53.2 | 34.7 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 3.0 |
1 Excludes Puerto Rico.
NOTES: This table includes data from urban transit agencies that are required to report information to the federal government because they applied for or are direct beneficiaries of urbanized area formula grants (49 USC 5307). Transit agencies with nine or fewer vehicles that would otherwise need to report under this definition typically receive a waiver from detailed reporting and, thus, are not necessarily included in the source database. Data are assigned to the state of a transit agency's mailing address. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding. Ridership data may not add to national total due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database, Annual Data Tables, table 19, available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram/ as of Apr. 14, 2010.