Public Transport Service Intensity:
USA Urbanized Areas Over 1,000,000

Urbanized Area Annual Vehicle Miles
Per Square Mile
Rank Compared to New York Annual Vehicle Miles
Per Capita
Rank Compared to New York
Atlanta, GA 58,049 10 0.25 32.6 3 0.76
Baltimore, MD 47,347 17 0.21 15.6 13 0.36
Boston, MA--NH--RI 49,632 15 0.22 21.4 6 0.50
Chicago, IL--IN 83,891 6 0.37 21.4 5 0.50
Cincinnati, OH--KY--IN 22,551 31 0.10 10.1 25 0.23
Cleveland, OH 51,290 13 0.23 18.6 9 0.43
Columbus, OH 22,727 30 0.10 8.0 29 0.19
Dallas--Fort Worth--Arlington, TX 25,196 26 0.11 8.6 27 0.20
Denver--Aurora, CO 72,174 8 0.32 18.1 10 0.42
Detroit, MI 23,132 29 0.10 7.5 30 0.17
Houston, TX 32,435 23 0.14 11.0 23 0.26
Indianapolis, IN 11,107 37 0.05 5.0 37 0.12
Kansas City, MO--KS 16,116 35 0.07 6.9 33 0.16
Las Vegas, NV 54,193 12 0.24 11.8 21 0.27
Los Angeles--Long Beach--Santa Ana, CA 92,013 3 0.40 13.0 19 0.30
Miami, FL 45,696 19 0.20 10.4 24 0.24
Milwaukee, WI 48,606 16 0.21 18.1 11 0.42
Minneapolis--St. Paul, MN 32,835 22 0.14 12.3 20 0.29
New Orleans, LA 73,837 7 0.32 14.5 16 0.34
New York--Newark, NY--NJ--CT 227,849 2 1.00 42.9 1 1.00
Orlando, FL 24,201 27 0.11 9.5 26 0.22
Philadelphia, PA--NJ--DE--MD 43,472 20 0.19 15.2 15 0.35
Phoenix--Mesa, AZ 22,443 32 0.10 6.2 35 0.14
Pittsburgh, PA 35,402 21 0.16 17.2 12 0.40
Portland, OR--WA 67,439 9 0.30 20.2 7 0.47
Providence, RI--MA 13,420 36 0.06 5.8 36 0.13
Riverside--San Bernardino, CA 24,011 28 0.11 7.0 32 0.16
Sacramento, CA 31,878 24 0.14 8.4 28 0.20
San Antonio, TX 50,124 14 0.22 15.4 14 0.36
San Diego, CA 46,521 18 0.20 13.6 18 0.32
San Francisco--Oakland, CA 250,488 1 1.10 40.9 2 0.95
San Jose, CA 84,748 5 0.37 14.3 17 0.33
Seattle, WA 54,914 11 0.24 19.3 8 0.45
St. Louis, MO--IL 28,664 25 0.13 11.4 22 0.27
Tampa--St. Petersburg, FL 16,267 34 0.07 6.3 34 0.15
Virginia Beach, VA 19,496 33 0.09 7.4 31 0.17
Washington, DC--VA--MD 88,465 4 0.39 26.0 4 0.61
Average 53,855   0.24 14.9   0.35
             
Based upon 2000 National Transit Database and 2000 US Census      

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