Transit’s Share of Motorized Passenger Miles

In 2016, transit carried less than 12 percent of motorized travel in the New York urban area, 7 percent in San Francisco-Oakland, 4 percent in Honolulu, between 3 and 4 percent in Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, between 2 and 3 percent in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, and Portland, and between 1 and 2 percent in Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Diego, and San Jose. Just about everywhere else was under 1 percent.

I calculated these numbers using table HM72 of the 2016 Highway Statistics, which the Federal Highway Administration published last month, and the 2016 National Transit Database, which the Federal Transit Administration published last October. I calculated these numbers for the 200 largest urbanized areas and included them in my summary 2016 Transit Database spreadsheet. I also corrected a few other problems with that spreadsheet (some transit agencies were assigned to the wrong urban areas), so if you downloaded it before, you should do so again even if you aren’t interested in total motorized passenger miles.

In calculating total motorized passenger miles, I used total vehicles miles multiplied by the average vehicle occupancy of 1.67. I then added transit passenger miles. There is a slight overlap as bus vehicle miles would have been included in highway vehicle miles, but it is not significant. The results are in columns AL through AQ of rows 3851 through 4050.

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Column AO allows users to enter their mode of choice to see how important it is in various urban areas. Enter the two-digit mode abbreviation — CR for commuter rail, MB for motor bus, etc. — in cell AO3849 and recalculate. I have LR entered by default. The percentage of travel carried by that mode will be shown in column AQ.

Let me know if you have any questions. I hope these numbers prove useful.

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The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

2 Responses to Transit’s Share of Motorized Passenger Miles

  1. LazyReader says:

    I find it hard to believe Oahu isn’t more transit enabled. The island is 30 miles by 20 miles roughly so unless you’re clear across the island, there’s no destination more than 15-20 miles away. But the island is in the midst of one of the largest civic boondoggles in history, the 10 Billion dollar HART; Honolulu Area rapid transit is so expensive, the state admits they don’t know exactly where the operating funds will come from. They don’t even know if they have the money to finish the project. According to Census there are about 400,000 households in Hawaii; for 18,000 dollars a piece that 10 billion could purchase every household a decent four cylinder automobile and 1,750 gallons of gas for each one, even at $4.00 a gallon, assuming a consumption rate of 15 gallons a week; you have enough gas to drive for the next 2 years. Besides being amazed by arithmetic, let’s look at the costs, 10 Billion in status is an enormous debt to incur; with a maintenance backlog inevitable, fares covering probably less than 20% of it’s operating costs, will Honolulu follow Chicago in it’s bonds going into Junk Status. Honolulu pushed for elevated rapid transit for a reason, Cause Canada does it; Be like Canada. Because building it at grade would enrage the community near it and lastly there’s no way in hell they could have tunneled the project of 20 miles of Basalt rock

  2. the highwayman says:

    Lazy, just so you know, rail advocates don’t support crooked contractors :$

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