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The following is a list of presently-operating bus transit systems in the United States with regular service. The list excludes charter buses, private bus operators, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. Figures for daily ridership, number of vehicles, and daily vehicle revenue miles are accurate as of 2009 and come from the FTA National ...
Congress first authorized money for public transport under the Urban Mass Transportation Act (UMTA) of 1964, with $150 million per year. Under the UMTA of 1970, this amount rose to $3.1 billion per year. Since then, ridership has risen from 6.6 billion in the mid-1970s to 10.2 billion today.
The NTD categorizes ridership data by type of service: directly operated (DO) and purchased transportation (PT). The data below shows the sum of these two values for each transit agency. Only the top 100 agencies with the most ridership in 2023 are shown.
The survey measured the percentage of commuters who take public transit, as opposed to walking, driving or riding in an automobile, bicycle, boat, or some other means. Rank. City. Public transit commuters as % of population (2015) 1. New York City, New York. 56.5%. 2. Jersey City, New Jersey.
City/Area served Annual ridership 2023 [1] Avg. ridership weekdays, Q2 2024 [2] System length Avg. boardings per mile weekdays, Q2 2024 Opened Stations Lines 1 New York City Subway: New York City Transit Authority [note 1] New York City: 2,027,286,000 6,408,300 248 mi (399 km) [3] 25,840 1904 [4] 472 [4] 26 [4] 2 Washington Metro
e. Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each ...
A public transport timetable (also timetable and North American English schedule) is a document setting out information on public transport service times. Both public timetables to assist passengers with planning a trip and internal timetables to inform employees exist. Typically, the timetable will list the times when a service is scheduled to ...
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in ...