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Motorbus Florida Totals: Includes express bus, bus rapid transit (BRT), 2017 Urban Fixed-Route Transit circulator, charter, and feeder bus. BRT operations include LYNX Lymmo, the South Miami-Dade Florida General Information 2016 Busway (Metrobus), and HART MetroRapid. Service Area Population 16,392,750 Transit Population Density (pop./sq. mi.) 1,188.1 Light Rail fast facts Operating Expense $1,232,858,715 Is represented by the TECO Line Streetcar System Operating Revenue $311,538,926 in Tampa, and there are two automated guideways in the state, the Miami Metromover and Jacksonville Service Supplied & Consumed Total Annual Revenue Miles 148,297,591 Skyway. The Miami Metrorail is Florida’s heavy rail Total Annual Revenue Hours 10,281,321 transit system. Route Miles 15,521.2 Commuter Rail Annual Passenger Trips 250,683,439 rail service). Overall, 16.6 million people, or 84 The South Florida RTA provides regional commuter percent of the state’s population, live within total Quality of Service rail service (Tri-Rail) between Palm Beach, Broward, urban transit service areas, which includes access Resident Access to Transit 56.61% and Miami-Dade Counties, and SunRail began to demand-response (e.g., Dial-a-Ride) services. Weekday Span of Service (hours) 16.8 commuter rail service between Volusia, Seminole, • In coming years, Florida’s transit markets will Orange, and Osceola Counties in 2015. continue to comprise transit dependent popula- Cost Efficiency Paratransit tions. However, there is strong evidence that Baby Operating Expense per Revenue Mile $8.31 Boomers and Millennials, in particular, have the Operating Expense per Revenue Hour $119.91 Numerous paratransit services in Florida provide Passenger Trips per Employee FTE 26,007 potential to comprise larger proportions of transit travel options to those who are transportation riders in the state (FDOT/CUTR 2013). disadvantaged. Paratransit operates in both urban Cost Effectiveness and rural areas and, in some cases, is the primary • According to a 2011 study commissioned by the Operating Expense per Passenger Trip $4.92 transit service in rural counties. Paratransit allows for FDOT, every $1.00 of federal money invested in Farebox Recovery Ratio 21.65% fixed-route deviation and demand-response (Dial-a- fixed-route transit services in Florida increases Average Fare $1.06 Ride) transit. economic activity by $2.30. Service Effectiveness For more information about public transit in Florida, • Florida paratransit programs save up to $146 million annually by being able to offer clients discounted Passenger Trips per Revenue Mile 1.69 including links to recent publications and upcoming Passenger Trips per Revenue Hour 24.38 fixed-route transit passes in lieu of more expensive training and events, please see FDOT’s Public Transit Passenger Trips per Capita 15.29 website at www.fdot.gov/transit. paratransit services (FDOT/CUTR 2011). • Fixed-route transit in Florida is estimated to save *2016 National Transit Database. Includes urban fixed-route Florida’s Transit Facts 42.9 million gallons of petroleum oil per year from agencies’ vanpool data and two separate vanpool providers. • Approximately 11.1 million residents, or 57 percent the effects of congestion relief, displaced vehicle of Florida’s population, live within one half-mile miles traveled (VMT), and land use (FDOT/CUTR of an urban fixed transit route (motorbus or 2011). Florida’s Transit Systems

Escambia Skyway Rail Systems in Florida Okaloosa Tallahassee Express In 2016, there were Skyway Express 31 urban fixed-route Bay Jacksonville Jacksonville Transportation Authority systems operating in Florida that reported SunRail to the National Transit Clay St. Florida Commuter Rail Authority Database (NTD). Johns Florida Dept. of Transportation Gainesville TECO Line Streetcar During 2016, Florida’s Florida Urban Hillsborough Area Regional transit agencies ranged in Fixed-Route Systems Transit Authority Ocala size from the six-vehicle Volusia Tri-Rail system in Ocala (SunTran) Bay Bay Town Trolley The South Florida Regional to the 1,077-vehicle system Brevard Space Coast Area Transit Citrus Lake SunRail Transportation Authority operating in Miami-Dade Broward Broward County Transit Metrorail & Metromover County. The systems Citrus Citrus County Transit Hernando Miami-Dade Transit included in this edition of Clay Clay Transit Pasco Brevard operates a heavy rail the Handbook represent LYNX Collier Collier Area Transit Polk system only those that reported Escambia Escambia County Area Transit Hillsborough to the National Transit Gainesville Gainesville Regional Transit System Database in 2016. More Pinellas TECO Line Hernando The Bus Streetcar Indian information on public transit River in Florida can be found at Hillsborough Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Manatee the following website: www. Indian River GoLine Transit St. Lucie dot.state.fl.us/transit. Jacksonville Jacksonville Transportation Authority Lake Lake Cty Public Transportation/Lake Xpress Sarasota Martin Charlotte County Transit Lee Lee County Transit Division and the Tampa Manatee Manatee County Area Transit Bay Area Regional Martin Martin County Lee Palm Beach Transportation Authority Miami Miami-Dade Transit What’s New (TBARTA) are required to Ocala/Marion SunTran Tri-Rail This Year? report vanpool information Okaloosa Okaloosa Emerald Coast Rider Collier to NTD; however, neither Broward Orlando LYNX agency operates a fixed- “The Wave Streetcar Palm Beach Palm Beach Cty Transportation Agency is coming to the City route system. Please Miami- Pasco Pasco County Public Transportation of Fort Lauderdale! note that Charlotte’s Dade and TBARTA’s vanpool Pinellas Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority greater than 200 The Wave will be Metrorail & powered by overhead numbers are included Polk Lakeland Area Mass Transit District peak vehicles Metromover in the Florida totals on Sarasota Sarasota County Area Transit electric lines along its 50-200 peak vehicles page 5, where applicable. St. Johns Sunshine Bus Company 2.8-mile route and St. Lucie St. Lucie Council on Aging, Inc. 10-49 peak vehicles will serve downtown For NTD report year 2016, SunRail Florida Department of Transportation 1-9 peak vehicles Fort Lauderdale. For there were two new urban more information see Tallahassee StarMetro Rail Systems reporting agencies: Citrus Tri-Rail S. FL Regional Transportation Authority wavestreetcar.com” County Transit and Clay Volusia Votran Transit.