Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation Subsector
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Section 4. Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
Transit and Ground Passenger 4Transportation 46 employment in new York city’s Transportation sector The transit and ground passenger transportation subsector makes cities run: transit agencies operate light and heavy rail (subways), buses, and transportation for special- ized populations; the private sector operates taxis, lim- ousines, and charter buses, and private shuttle services. Urban residents rely more heavily on transit and ground passenger services than do people residing in suburbs. nAICS definition of the Transit and Ground This is especially true in New York City, which operates Passenger Transportation the largest public transportation authority in the coun- subsector (nAICS 485) try and the only transit system in the world that oper- This subsector includes several 1 ates year-round, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. passenger transportation, such as urban transit systems; char- tered bus, school bus, and The subsector is more accurately described and scholarly literature. Section B relies interurban bus transportation; as two disparate sets of industry groups mainly on analyses of analyses of quanti- and taxis (including limousines with very different dynamics and needs. tative data available for the private sector and “black cars”). Within the subsector, there are scheduled On the one hand, the private sector serves only. In Section C, we review findings from industry groups (urban transit, almost no role in the United States in the analyses we were able to conduct on both interurban and rural bus trans- provision of transit services, with the excep- industry groups, representing the entire portation, and school and tion of paratransit (special van and bus ser- subsector. -