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Transit Vehicles and Ridership Revenue Years 2010 and 2018-2023

Key: UPT = Unlinked Passenger Trips

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Dataset Excel:

T1-2 Transit Vehicles and Ridership.xlsx (22.88 KB)

Notes:

Motor bus includes bus, commuter bus, bus rapid transit, and trolley bus. Light Rail includes light rail, streetcar rail, and hybrid rail. Demand response includes demand response and demand response taxi. Other includes Alaska railroad, automated guideway transit, cable car, inclined plane, monorail, and vanpool. UPT is the number of passengers who board public transportation vehicles. Passengers are counted each time they board vehicles no matter how many vehicles they use to travel from origin to destination. 2019, 2020, and 2021 data are revised.

Description:

This graph is from the 2024 Transportation Statistics Annual Report.

Source:

Transit vehicles: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). Federal Transit Administration (FTA). National Transit Database (NTD) as cited in USDOT. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). National Transportation Statistics (NTS). Tables 1-11. Available at http://www.bts.gov/ as of November 2024. Person-miles traveled: USDOT/FTA/NTD as cited in USDOT/BTS/NTS. Table 1-40. Available at http://www.bts.
gov/ as of November 2024. Transit Stations and UPT: USDOT/FTA/NTD. Available at https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-data as of November
2024.

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