Public transportation includes transit bus, transit rail, commuter rail, trolleys, and several demand-responsive services.
|Unlinked trips (in thousands)||770,455||784,061|
|Transit ridership percent change from same month previous year||2.92||1.77|
NOTE: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), an unlinked transit trip is a trip on one transit vehicle. A person riding one vehicle from origin to destination takes one unlinked trip; a person who transfers to a second vehicle takes two unlinked trips; a person who transfers to a third vehicle takes three unlinked trips. APTA estimates that the number of people riding transit on an average weekday is 45 percent of the number of unlinked transit passenger trips.
SOURCE: American Public Transportation Association, APTA Quarterly Transit Ridership Report, available at: http://www.apta.com/stats/ridershp/index.htm