Monthly Ridership

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
2024-NTD-Monthly-Ridership-Weekly Reference-Manual.pdf application/pdf 762.6 KB 04/17/2025 11:01:AM
April 2025 Complete Monthly Ridership (with adjustments and estimates).xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 13.7 MB 04/15/2025 08:29:AM
April 2025 Raw Monthly Ridership (no adjustments or estimates).xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 13.6 MB 04/15/2025 08:26:AM
Complete_Monthly_Ridership_DOT_Changelog.pdf application/pdf 251.2 KB 04/15/2025 08:23:AM
Raw_Monthly_Ridership_DOT_Changelog.pdf application/pdf 245.9 KB 04/15/2025 08:27:AM
Ridership_Data_DOT_Readme.txt text/plain 4.7 KB 04/15/2025 08:25:AM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration. Monthly Ridership. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-04-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/E227009V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Monthly Ridership
Summary:  View help for Summary FTA collects monthly transit service data from Full Urban Reporters (agencies with over 30 Vehicles Operated in Maximum Service (VOMS) or modes operating over Fixed Guideway). These service data include Vehicle Revenue Miles (VRM), Vehicle Revenue Hours (VRH), Unlinked Passenger Trips (UPT), and VOMS. For a description of these data, please review the most recent NTD Policy Manual (https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/2024-ntd-monthly-ridership-and-weekly-reference-policy-manual). The most recent NTD Policy Manual for this point in time (2024) has been included with this dataset.

The datasets have multiple sheets within the Excel spreadsheet, with the first one being a README.

Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/monthly-ridership

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms transit; public transportation; vehicles; rail; bus; boat
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2002 – 4/2025 (Data collection is ongoing, the current dataset here only goes till April 2025.)
Universe:  View help for Universe United States transit service
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data; event/transaction data


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