2008 Public Transportation Fact Book Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics

2008 Public Transportation Fact Book Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics

2008 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FACT BOOK PART 3: TRANSIT AGENCY AND URBANIZED AREA OPERATING STATISTICS June 2008 American Public Transportation Association 1666 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 TELEPHONE: (202) 496-4800 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.apta.com APTA's Vision Statement Be the leading force in advancing public transportation. APTA's Mission Statement To strengthen and improve public transportation, APTA serves and leads its diverse membership through advocacy, innovation, and information sharing. APTA's Policy on Diversity APTA recognizes the importance of diversity for conference topics and speakers and is committed to increasing the awareness of its membership on diversity issues. APTA welcomes ideas and suggestions on how to strengthen its efforts to meet these important diversity objectives. Prepared by John Neff, Senior Policy Researcher (202) 496-4812 [email protected] 2008 Public Transportation Fact Book Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics American Public Transportation Association Washington, DC June 2008 Material from 2008 Public Transportation Fact Book, Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics, may be quoted or reproduced, without obtaining the permission of the American Public Transportation Association. Suggested Identification: American Public Transportation Association: 2008 Public Transportation Fact Book, Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics, Washington, DC, June, 2008. Data presented in this publication are based on data published in the National Transit Database. Washington: Federal Transit Administration, 2008, at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram/ About the Fact Book The American Public Transportation Association is a nonprofit international association of over 1,500 public and private member organizations including transit systems and commuter rail operators; planning, design, construction and finance firms; product and service providers; academic institutions, transit associations and state departments of transportation. APTA members serve the public interest by providing safe, efficient and economical transit services and products. Over ninety percent of persons using public transportation in the United States and Canada are served by APTA members. The Public Transportation Fact Book (formerly the Transit Fact Book) was first published in 1943. This is the first edition of a Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics volume to supplement the Public Transportation Fact Book. The tables in this volume arrange data in rank order for all transit agencies reported in the Federal Transit Administration's 2006 National Transit Database. These data are extensions of tables listing only the largest 20 to the largest 75 agencies in different modes in previous editions of the Public Transportation Fact Book. These data will allow all agencies that participate in the National Transit Database to determine other agencies of comparable size. Note that all data included in this volume are extracted from the 2006 National Transit Database. The names and locations used to identify these transit agencies are as they appear in that publication. These data are presented because NTD data are not published in an easily extracted format where data can be sorted by agency or agency modal totals or urbanized area or urbanized area modal totals in size order. The data are summed and ranked in four ways: Agency Totals: Data for all modes operated by a transit agency are summed to a total. Tables 1 through 3. Agency Modal Totals: Data are reported for each agency for each mode the agency operates. If both directly operated and purchased transportation service are reported for a single mode for an agency, those data are summed to a single number for the agency's total service. Tables 4 through 6. Modes of service are listed by codes in the following order: AG: Automated Guideway Transit AR: Alaska Railroad CC: Cable Car CR: Commuter Rail DR: Demand Responsive Paratransit FB: Ferry Boat HR: Heavy Rail IP: Inclined Plane LR: Light Rail MB: Bus MO: Monorail PB: Publico TB: Trolleybus VP: Van Pool Urbanized Area Totals: All service for all modes for all transit agencies in each urbanized area are summed to a total. Only urbanized areas for which transit service reported are included. Note that the entire amount of service operated by a transit agency is included in the urbanized area in which its headquarters is located even if some of that service is operated in another urbanized area. Tables 7 through 9. Urbanized Area Modal Totals: All data for each mode for all transit agencies in each area are summed to give modal totals for each urbanized area. Only urbanized areas with a particular mode of service are listed under each modal category. Note that the entire amount of service operated by a transit agency is included in the urbanized area in which its headquarters is located even if some of that service is operated in another urbanized area. Table 10 through 12. Indexes are also provided that list each transit agency alphabetically by state and name and each urbanized area by name. The indexes list, for modes and agency or urbanized area totals, the rank for each data item allowing the agency to located on Tables 1 through 12. Table 13 through 16. Data are provided for six statistics listed in pairs: Tables 1, 4, 7, and 10. Vehicles Operated Maximum Service and Vehicles Available for Maximum Service. The agencies are listed in the order of Vehicles Operated Maximum Service. Tables 2, 5, 8,and 11. Annual Vehicle Revenue Miles and Annual Vehicle Revenue Hours. The agencies are listed in the order of Annual Vehicle Revenue Miles. Tables 3, 6, 9, and 12. Unlinked Passenger Trips and Passenger Miles. The agencies are listed in the order of Unlinked Passenger Trips. Beginning this year the Public Transportation Fact Book is being published in three parts. The new format will allow greater detail in statistical content and at the same time allow data to be easier to find and access. The Public Transportation Fact Book, presents statistics describing the entire United States transit industry for 1995 through 2006 with additional detail and overview presentations for 2006. Also included are definitions of reported data items. The Public Transportation Fact Book, Part 2: History, presents primary data items for the entire time period they have been reported in Fact Books and other statistical reports prepared by APTA and its predecessor organizations. Many data items are reported for every year beginning in the 1920s and ridership is reported from 1907. The Public Transportation Fact Book, Part 3: Transit Agency and Urbanized Area Operating Statistics, this volume, presents six operating statistics for each transit agency in size order, totaled for all service modes operated by the agency and in size order for each individual mode. Data are also summed for urbanized areas, both all modes totaled and for individual modes. These lists greatly expand similar data in previous Public Transportation Fact Books and allow an simple method to determine comparably sized transit agencies; a difficult task when using existing data sources. APTA produces additional data reports that provide detailed information about individual transit agencies that are not available from other sources. These reports or information for obtaining these reports is on the APTA web site at www.apta.com. The Public Transportation Fare Database, published annually, report details of individual transit agency fare structures, fare collection practices, and fare collection equipment. The Transit Vehicle Database, published annually, lists all vehicles owned by participating agencies in fleets, that is, groups of identical vehicles manufactured in the same year. Extensive information is included on their propulsion plants, dimensions, and equipment such as communications and passenger amenities. The Transit Infrastructure Database, published in alternating years, lists all fixed-guideways and stations operated by participating transit agencies. The status of fixed-guideways not yet open is reported and the equipment in stations is detailed. The Public Transportation Ridership Report is published quarterly. Each quarterly edition presents ridership for each of three months plus quarterly and year-to-date amounts for all participating transit agencies. The reported data are used to estimate national total ridership which is reported for individual service modes and an aggregate total. This report presents a quick indicator of the state of the transit industry shortly after the close of the period being reported. The APTA Primer on Transit Funding presents a detailed explanation of funding programs in federal laws authorizing funding for the transit industry. Detailed statistics report amounts of funds available and the text describes the uses to which those funds may be put and the methods by which they are distributed. A new Primer is prepared for each authorization of transit law and they are updated annually to reflect annual appropriations of federal funds for transit. A Profile of Public Transportation Passenger Demographics and Travel Characteristics Reported in On-Board Surveys is an extensive investigation of the demographic characteristics and travel behavior of transit passengers based on surveys conducted by transit agencies of their passengers while traveling on-board their vehicles. Extensive data for individual transit agencies can be found

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