Transit Profiles: The Thirty Largest Agencies for the 1994 National TransitDatabase Report Year

摘要

The publications consists of consolidated profiles for the 30 largest transitagencies in the United States. The criterion used to determine these agencies is operating expense. Data contained in each profile consists of general and summary reports, as well as modal, performance, and trend indicators for the 1994 Report Year. Each agency profiled provides general information (size of urbanized area, service supplied and consumed, and the number of vehicles operated in maximum service); and financial information (sources of operating funds, summary of operating expenses, sources of capital funds expended, and uses of capital funds). Specific financial and service characteristics, as well as capital funding and performance measures are listed for each mode. The appendices provide aggregate data for the 30 largest agencies which includes the following modes: automated guideway, cable car, ferryboat, inclined plane, trolleybus, and vanpool. Modal data have also been totaled for the primary modes (bus, heavy rail, commuter rail, and light rail).