Portland Has the 11th Biggest Public Transit System In The U.S.
Friday, September 05, 2014
See Slides Below For The 15 Biggest U.S. Public Transit Systems
To receive grants from the Federal Transit Administration, transit systems (heavy rail, light rail, buses, etc.) must provide monthly ridership data to the NTD, which compiles it by census-designated urbanized areas.
The data is measured by unlinked trips- a transit journey that counts transfers as separate trips. This figure can be converted to “trips per resident” by dividing unlinked trips in 2013 by 2012 population estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS), producing a number that’s neatly comparable among cities of different sizes.
The U.S. has 415 urbanized areas with populations over 65,000, large enough to get a one-year ACS estimate, and 70 percent (290) of them reported data to the NTD in every month of 2013.
In 2013, Portland had an average of 112 million average public transit trips.
New York operates on a completely different scale, with 4,279 million average public transit trips in 2013. That is more trips than the other 14 biggest transit systems combined, which add up to 4,214 million average public transit trips in 2013.
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Related Slideshow: 15 Biggest Public Transit Systems in the U.S.
15. Minneapolis- St. Paul
14. Denver-Aurora, CO
13. San Diego, CA
12. Baltimore, MD
11. Portland, OR
10. Atlanta, GA
9. Miami, FL
8. Seattle, WA
7. Philadelphia, PA
6. Boston, MA
5. San Francisco-Oakland,
4. Washington DC
3. Chicago, IL
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach
1. New York-Newark, NY
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