TABLE 2-6-2 - Top 20 Transit Agencies by Unlinked Passenger Trips: Fiscal Year 2008
TABLE 2-6-2 - Top 20 Transit Agencies by Unlinked Passenger Trips: Fiscal Year 2008
| Rank | Agency | Unlinked trips (thousands) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) | 3,336,387 |
| 2 | Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) | 526,336 |
| 3 | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trip Authority (LACMTA) | 476,032 |
| 4 | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) | 425,237 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) | 370,719 |
| 6 | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) | 340,942 |
| 7 | New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJTransit) | 277,154 |
| 8 | San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) | 221,213 |
| 9 | Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) | 150,913 |
| 10 | King County Department of Transportation (King County Metro) | 122,976 |
| 11 | MTA Bus Company (MTABUS) | 121,028 |
| 12 | Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) | 117,664 |
| 13 | San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) | 115,228 |
| 14 | Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) | 114,802 |
| 15 | Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) | 104,169 |
| 16 | Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) | 101,176 |
| 17 | Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (Metro) | 100,277 |
| 18 | MTA Long Island Railroad (MTA LIRR) | 99,599 |
| 19 | San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) | 87,175 |
| 20 | Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) | 85,405 |
| Total, top 20 agencies | 7,294,433 | |
| Total, all agencies | 10,256,682 | |
| Top 20 agencies, percent of all agencies | 71.1% |
NOTES: Details may not add to total due to rounding. According to the National Transit Database (NTD), an unlinked passenger trip represents a passenger who boards a public transportation vehicle. Passengers are counted each time they board vehicles no matter how many vehicles they use to travel from their origin to their destination. A linked trip is a trip from origin to destination on the transit system. Even if a person must make several transfers during a journey, the trip is counted as one linked trip on the system.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), National Transit Database, Data Tables, Fare per Passenger and Recovery Ratio, table 26 (Washington, D.C.: Annual Issues), available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram/data.htm as of January 2010.