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Average Age of Urban Transit Vehicles

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A bar chart showing the average age of urban transit vehicles by category in 2000, 2010, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Vehicle categories include commuter rail locomotives, heavy rail passenger cars, light rail vehicles (street cars), articulated bus, and ferryboats. Buses were the newest vehicle every year, averaging 7 years old across all years shown. In 2021, all other vehicle types averaged between 19 and 24 years old.

Dataset Table:

2000 2010 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Commuter rail locomotives 13.4 19.4 20.0 20.7 21.5 22.2 22.9
Heavy rail passenger cars 16.9 18.7 23.0 23.4 23.6 22.8 23.9
Light rail vehicles (street cars) 16.1 16.8 18.5 16.9 16.2 18.9 19.5
Articulated Bus 6.5 6.5 7.3 6.9 6.7 6.9 6.4
Ferryboats 25.6 20.5 22.3 21.7 21.5 20.2 21.0

Source:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Vehicles, available at www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-data as of September 2023; as reported in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, Table 1-29, available at www.bts.gov as of September 2023.                            
 

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