Charting Public Transit's Decline

Charting Public Transit's Decline | Cato Institute

In a series of twelve charts, this paper explains the decline in ridership and its implications for the future.

Charting Public Transit's Decline - Cato Institute

Charting Public Transit's Decline. By Randal O'Toole. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Nationwide transit ridership has declined steadily since 2014, with ...

CATO Institute Analysis: Charting Public Transit's Decline | Corridor ...

Nationwide transit ridership has declined steadily since 2014, with some of the largest urban areas, including Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles, ...

APTA Public Transportation Ridership Update

... public transit instead of driving.4. After a rapid decline in March and April 2020 to 19 percent of pre-pandemic levels, public transit ...

Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States?

Between 2012 and 2018, bus ridership in the United States declined 15% and rail ridership declined 3%. These losses are widespread and in contrast to trends in ...

Charting Transit's Decline – The Antiplanner - The Thoreau Institute

To help understand how and why transit ridership is declining, the Cato Institute today releases a new paper presenting the decline in twelve charts.

APTA Releases Ridership Trends Report

From Our Colleagues at Railway Age: WASHINGTON ––After falling to 20% of pre-pandemic levels in April 2020, public transit has recovered to ...

How to save America's public transit systems from a doom spiral - Vox

Ridership nationwide plummeted around 80 percent in March 2020, shrinking farebox revenues as it fell. That decline was less crippling for ...

The Recent Decline Of US Public Transit Ridership, Visualized - Digg

Before the initial pandemic lockdowns of early 2020, average ridership for these transit systems was around 100 million daily. That plummeted to ...

The American Public Transit Dilemma | Citizen Codex

Transit use is down everywhere. Agencies are getting creative. ... An area graph displays total monthly passenger trips on U.S. transit usage from ...

APTA Public Transportation Ridership Update

After a rapid decline in March and April 2020 to 19 percent of pre-pandemic levels, public transit ridership recovered quickly to ...

Here's why public transit keeps running out of money - CNBC

The state of public transit in the U.S. is declining rapidly as systems across the nation face a fiscal crisis. Ridership has continuously ...

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Transit Ridership and ...

patterns changed, transit ridership declined ... “Public Transportation Objectives and Rider Demographics: Are Transit's Priorities Poor Public ...

Commuting in the United States: 2022 - Census.gov

sharp decline in transit commuting ... drove alone to work in 2022 than in 2019, and the number traveling by public transportation did not increase between 2021 ...

[OC] Nationwide Public Transit Ridership is down 30% from pre ...

[OC] Nationwide Public Transit Ridership is down 30% from pre-lockdown levels; San Francisco's BART ridership is down almost 70%. OC.

US Public Transit Has Struggled to Retain Riders over the Past Half ...

In the Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans regions, there are at least 50,000 fewer transit commuters in each ...

trends in local public-transportation expenditures from 2018 to 2021

(See chart 5.) Intracity mass-transit spending for those workers building your next house or building the next office complex declined 76 percent from 2018 to ...

Public transit has lost its momentum during the pandemic. Can it be ...

Since mid-March, ridership has plummeted and there's concern about a “transit death spiral.” But new studies show that public transportation isn't a major ...

(PDF) Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States?

PDF | Between 2012 and 2018, bus ridership in the United States declined 15% and rail ridership declined 3%. These losses are widespread and ...

Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States?

Ride-hailing is the biggest contributor to transit ridership decline over this period, reducing bus ridership by 10%. Ride-hailing's effect on rail varies by ...