Table 4 - Transit: 1999 Data (unless noted)
Table 4 - Transit: 1999 Data (unless noted)
Vehicles1 (1998)
55,661 buses (also included in buses under highway), 17.9 billion passenger-miles
11,357 heavy and light rail, 13.4 billion passenger-miles
5,535 commuter rail, 8.7 billion passenger-miles
97 ferries, 280 million passenger-miles
20,042 demand responsive, 513 million passenger-miles
7,654 other vehicles, 654 million passenger-miles
Transit agencies2
554 federally funded urbanized area agencies
1,074 federally funded rural agencies
3,594 federally funded specialized transportation agencies
753 other agencies
321,000 employees
1 U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database 1998, available at http://www.fta.dot.gov/ntl/databases/index.html, as of Oct. 23, 2000.
2 American Public Transportation Association, Transit Factbook 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001).