49 Major Metropolitan Areas
Annual Per Capita Boardings:
1980-1997 & Market Share

United States: Annual Per Capita Boardings and Market Share by Metropolitan Area

Metropolitan Area

Unlinked Trips per Capita Change from 1980 Change from 1990 Estimated
Market Share
1980 1990 1997 Rank 1980-97 Rank 1990-7 Rank 1997 Rank
Atlanta 56.2 50.5 47.6 8 -15.3% 17 -5.8% 19 1.428% 14
Austin 13.5 37.9 29.9 18 121.9% 2 -21.0% 41 0.586% 28
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence 67.3 62.5 59.9 6 -11.0% 16 -4.2% 17 2.578% 7
Buffalo-Niagara Falls 29.8 25.5 22.4 22 -24.9% 28 -12.2% 25 0.792% 22
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill 10.5 10.4 8.5 41 -19.6% 21 -18.7% 36 0.252% 41
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha 99.5 84.6 63.4 4 -36.3% 33 -25.1% 44 3.900% 3
Cincinnati-Hamilton 26.1 19.4 15.3 28 -41.2% 37 -20.9% 40 0.620% 27
Cleveland-Akron 47.4 28.4 25.3 20 -46.7% 40 -10.9% 22 0.971% 18
Columbus 16.1 13.6 12.2 34 -24.5% 27 -10.8% 21 0.433% 36
Dallas-Ft. Worth 15.4 13.8 13.8 31 -10.6% 15 0.2% 14 0.317% 38
Denver-Boulder-Greeley 29.0 28.1 30.7 15 5.8% 11 9.1% 9 1.368% 16
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Fliint 27.3 19.4 13.4 32 -51.0% 42 -31.1% 48 0.555% 29
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland 6.2 4.6 3.7 48 -40.2% 35 -20.0% 38 0.138% 47
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point 5.9 5.6 4.6 46 -21.7% 24 -16.9% 35 0.077% 49
Hartford 20.9 17.9 15.2 29 -27.0% 29 -15.0% 29 0.528% 30
Honolulu 97.1 87.9 78.9 2 -18.7% 20 -10.3% 20 4.596% 2
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 15.1 24.4 20.3 25 34.3% 4 -16.8% 34 0.500% 32
Indianapolis 14.0 9.1 6.5 44 -53.7% 44 -28.7% 47 0.179% 44
Jacksonville 22.6 9.7 8.2 42 -63.7% 48 -15.6% 30 0.392% 37
Kansas City 18.3 11.7 8.5 40 -53.3% 43 -27.2% 45 0.172% 45
Las Vegas 10.6 8.6 34.2 14 223.3% 1 295.9% 1 1.060% 17
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co 41.8 36.2 35.3 13 -15.6% 19 -2.6% 16 1.474% 13
Memphis 26.7 13.8 11.5 37 -57.0% 47 -16.6% 33 0.527% 31
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 32.2 28.7 29.6 19 -8.0% 14 3.2% 13 1.683% 9
Milwaukee 56.1 42.2 44.2 10 -21.1% 23 4.7% 12 0.968% 19
Minneapolis-St. Paul 49.2 27.4 22.2 23 -54.8% 46 -18.9% 37 0.880% 20
Nashville 21.1 8.8 6.0 45 -71.7% 49 -31.7% 49 0.151% 46
New Orleans 82.4 64.0 46.5 9 -43.5% 39 -27.3% 46 1.987% 8
New York-NNJ-Long Island 169.7 143.7 143.6 1 -15.4% 18 -0.1% 15 9.324% 1
Norfolk-Virginia Bch-Newport News 19.2 9.4 10.1 38 -47.4% 41 7.5% 11 0.484% 34
Oklahoma City 3.0 3.7 3.2 49 7.9% 10 -12.4% 26 0.107% 48
Orlando 8.1 6.6 11.7 36 43.8% 3 78.0% 3 0.487% 33
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City 69.6 63.1 53.8 7 -22.8% 26 -14.8% 28 2.877% 6
Phoenix-Mesa 9.5 13.9 12.2 33 28.9% 5 -12.0% 24 0.441% 35
Pittsburgh 44.8 36.2 30.6 16 -31.8% 32 -15.6% 31 1.481% 12
Portland-Salem 38.7 34.0 38.3 11 -1.2% 12 12.6% 7 1.499% 11
Providence-Fall River-Warwick 26.3 19.0 14.9 30 -43.3% 38 -21.5% 42 0.699% 23
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill 7.0 4.8 8.7 39 24.5% 7 82.7% 2 0.200% 42
Rochester 26.3 14.3 12.0 35 -54.2% 45 -16.0% 32 0.317% 39
Sacramento-Yolo 15.4 13.8 17.7 27 14.6% 8 28.4% 5 0.879% 21
Salt Lake City-Ogden 21.0 22.1 19.5 26 -7.2% 13 -11.9% 23 0.627% 26
San Antonio 34.5 31.6 25.2 21 -27.0% 30 -20.5% 39 0.688% 24
San Diego 23.7 26.9 30.3 17 27.5% 6 12.6% 8 1.421% 15
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 100.3 73.0 69.1 3 -31.1% 31 -5.4% 18 3.337% 4
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton 46.9 34.0 36.6 12 -21.9% 25 7.8% 10 1.585% 10
St. Louis 35.4 17.8 21.2 24 -40.2% 36 19.0% 6 0.662% 25
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 11.7 9.5 7.2 43 -38.8% 34 -24.8% 43 0.299% 40
Washington-Baltimore 77.4 72.7 62.1 5 -19.8% 22 -14.6% 27 2.940% 5
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton 3.4 2.8 3.9 47 14.2% 9 41.0% 4 0.189% 43
Major Metropolitan 64.5 52.5 48.1 -25.4% -8.4% 2.166%
Rest of US 5.1 4.0 4.3 -14.5% 8.0% 0.021%
United States 36.2 31.4 29.2 -19.4% -7.0% 0.956%
Data from US Department of Transportation

Table includes all 48 metropolitan areas with more than one million population in 1997 and one smaller metropolitan area, Honolulu, which is the only smaller metropolitan area with more than 20 annual unlinked boardings per capita.

Market share (person kilometers) estimated using Federal Highway Administration urbanized area traffic data and Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey vehicle occupancy ratios (1995).

Market share (person kilometers) is public transport passenger kilometers as a percentage of total public transport and street/highway (auto, etc.) person kilometers.

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