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American Public Transportation Association, Public Transit Ridership Statistics, USA, 1st Quarter 2008 & 2007

This dataset displays ridership statistics for major transit agencies across the USA for the first quarter of 2008 and compares them to the same figures from 2007. The findings show that the use of Public Transportation in the USA has increased dramatically in the past year. The Data comes from the American Public Transportation Association.

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) announced that Americans took 2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008. This is almost 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period.

Last year 10.3 billion trips were taken on U.S. public transportation – the highest number of trips taken in fifty years. In the first quarter of 2008, public transportation continued to climb and rose by 3.3 percent. In contrast, the Federal Highway Administration has reported that the vehicle miles traveled on our nation’s roads declined by 2.3 percent in the first quarter.

Light rail (modern streetcars, trolleys, and heritage trolleys) had the highest percentage of ridership increase among all modes, with a double digit 10.3 percent increase for the first quarter. Commuter rail posted the second largest ridership increase at 5.7 percent. Heavy rail (subways and elevated trains) ridership increased by 4.4 percent. Bus ridership saw an increase of 2 percent nationwide.

Terms:

A Trip is a trip on one transit vehicle regardless of the type of fare paid or transfer presented

MODE CODES

MB Bus

TB Trolleybus

DR Demand Response

VP Vanpool

JT Jitney

HR Heavy Rail

LR Light Rail

CR Commuter Rail

IR Intermediate Rail

FB Ferryboat

AG Automated Guideway

IP Inclined Plane

TOTAL Agency Total

Blank Entries = Not calculable due to zero base or missing data

Attributes Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
Longitude -123.43 - -66.11 -87.79 -94.26 17.73

Longitude of the city where the Transit Agency is located

Average Weekday -999.00 - 10169.50 3.80 -40.43 599.29

Average number of trips during weekday during the first quarter in 2008 (in 000's)

Trips for Jan 08 -999.00 - 260418.20 99.20 1656.71 11708.35

The amount of trips that took place in January of 2008 (in 000's)

Transit Agency Text column (no statistics available)

Name of the Transit Agency

Trips for Feb 08 -999.00 - 249417.80 103.50 1618.90 11259.27

The amount of trips that took place in February of 2008 (in 000's)

City Text column (no statistics available)

City of the Transit Agency

Trips for Mar 08 -999.00 - 271613.60 99.80 1709.86 12241.61

The amount of trips that took place in March of 2008 (in 000's)

Province/State Text column (no statistics available)

Province/State of the Transit Agency

Trips thru Mar 08 -999.00 - 781449.60 297.40 5036.60 35194.36

The amount of trips that took place throughout the entire first quarter of 2008 (in 000's)

Mode Text column (no statistics available)

Mode of Transportation

Trips for Jan 07 -999.00 - 250289.90 103.40 1634.28 11262.63

The amount of trips that took place in January of 2007 (in 000's)

Trips for Feb 07 -999.00 - 229047.30 98.80 1510.70 10335.06

The amount of trips that took place in February of 2007 (in 000's)

Trips for Mar 07 -999.00 - 271642.00 114.90 1779.01 12242.72

The amount of trips that took place in March of 2007 (in 000's)

Latitude 18.47 - 48.12 39.08 38.14 5.26

Latitude of the city where the Transit Agency is located

Trips thru Mar 07 -999.00 - 750979.20 311.10 4957.98 33831.64

The amount of trips that took place throughout the entire first quarter of 2007 (in 000's)

Quarterly Change Text column (no statistics available)

The percentage change between the amount of rides that took place during the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008