Table 4-8 - Top 20 Transit Agencies by Unlinked Passenger Trips: Fiscal Year 2009
Table 4-8 - Top 20 Transit Agencies by Unlinked Passenger Trips: Fiscal Year 2009
| Rank | Agency | Unlinked trips (thousands) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) | 3,206,871 |
| 2 | Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) | 521,242 |
| 3 | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) | 481,436 |
| 4 | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) | 435,859 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) | 367,248 |
| 6 | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) | 348,315 |
| 7 | New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) | 281,448 |
| 8 | San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) | 227,130 |
| 9 | Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) | 156,542 |
| 10 | Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) | 123,697 |
| 11 | MTA Bus Company (MTABUS) | 119,976 |
| 12 | King County Department of Transportation (King County Metro) | 115,834 |
| 13 | San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) | 114,655 |
| 14 | Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) | 108,552 |
| 15 | Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) | 103,505 |
| 16 | Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) | 98,205 |
| 17 | MTA Long Island Railroad (MTA LIRR) | 97,351 |
| 18 | Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (Metro) | 88,511 |
| 19 | San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) | 88,336 |
| 20 | Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) | 81,553 |
| Total, top 20 agencies | 7,166,264 | |
| Total, all agencies | 10,134,262 | |
| Top 20 agencies, percent of all agencies | 70.7 |
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. MTA Bus Company operates in New York, New York.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), National Transit Database, Data Tables, table 26 (Washington, D.C.: Annual Issues), available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram/data.htm as of November 2010.