1. Recent trends in transit ridership in the U.S. Presented by: Savannah Amor and Sean Yaworsky

2. What is Transit Ridership?  Ridership data is based on trip counts  Average person takes 2 trips per day  Roughly 10%-30% transfer from one form of transit to another in order to get to their final destination  Transit modes include bus, trolley bus, vanpool, jitney, heavy/light rail transit, commuter rail, cable car, monorail and ferryboat

3. Mass Transit Composition

5. Promoting Ridership  Nearly 2.6 billion trips were taken in the first quarter of 2009 using public transportation 1  Reduction of fossil fuels through alternative fueling  Over-congested highways are inevitable  Advertisement of mass transit