Table 4
Transit: 2000 Data (preliminary)
Vehicles
"75,013 buses (also included in buses under highway), "
21.2 billion passenger-miles
"12,168 heavy and light rail, 15.2 billion passenger-miles"
"5,073 commuter rail, 9.4 billion passenger-miles"
"119 ferries, 330 million passenger-miles"
"33,080 demand responsive, 839 million passenger-miles"
"6,159 other vehicles, 984 million passenger-miles"
Transit agencies
554 federally funded urbanized area agencies
"1,074 federally funded rural agencies"
"3,594 federally funded specialized transportation agencies"
753 other agencies
"346,415 employees"
NOTE: Data for fiscal year 2000 are preliminary.
"SOURCE: American Public Transportation Association, Transit Factbook 2001 (Washington, DC: 2001), tables 30, 46, 62, and 84."