Ratio of Service to Population: 1996 |
Rank |
Metropolitan Area |
Annual
Vehicle Hours
per Capita |
Annual
Boardings
per Capita |
1 |
New York-NNJ-Long Island |
2.432 |
132.8 |
2 |
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose |
1.559 |
68.4 |
3 |
Honolulu |
1.456 |
79.2 |
4 |
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha |
1.439 |
63.9 |
5 |
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton |
1.318 |
34.8 |
6 |
Washington-Baltimore |
1.243 |
62.0 |
7 |
Portland-Salem |
1.108 |
38.4 |
8 |
Denver-Boulder-Greeley |
1.051 |
30.7 |
9 |
Milwaukee |
1.034 |
38.6 |
10 |
Pittsburgh |
1.025 |
30.5 |
11 |
New Orleans |
1.011 |
49.8 |
12 |
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City |
0.959 |
54.8 |
13 |
San Antonio |
0.933 |
25.3 |
14 |
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence |
0.931 |
58.2 |
15 |
Atlanta |
0.900 |
41.7 |
16 |
Salt Lake City-Ogden |
0.893 |
19.6 |
17 |
Austin |
0.887 |
27.0 |
18 |
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale |
0.866 |
29.1 |
19 |
San Diego |
0.856 |
28.7 |
20 |
Cleveland-Akron |
0.842 |
24.5 |
21 |
Buffalo-Niagara Falls |
0.805 |
23.5 |
22 |
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange Co |
0.781 |
33.6 |
23 |
Las Vegas |
0.775 |
31.9 |
24 |
Minneapolis-St. Paul |
0.764 |
22.4 |
25 |
St. Louis |
0.733 |
20.2 |
26 |
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria |
0.682 |
19.1 |
27 |
Providence-Fall River-Warwick |
0.668 |
17.1 |
28 |
Cincinnati-Hamilton |
0.586 |
15.6 |
29 |
Dallas-Ft. Worth |
0.545 |
13.6 |
30 |
Orlando |
0.485 |
10.6 |
31 |
Columbus |
0.482 |
12.1 |
32 |
Hartford |
0.476 |
14.0 |
33 |
Jacksonville |
0.470 |
8.3 |
34 |
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Fliint |
0.463 |
12.3 |
35 |
Norfolk-Virginia Bch-Newport News |
0.450 |
9.8 |
36 |
Rochester |
0.448 |
11.8 |
37 |
Sacramento-Yolo |
0.446 |
16.7 |
38 |
Memphis |
0.443 |
11.1 |
39 |
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater |
0.415 |
7.4 |
40 |
Phoenix-Mesa |
0.396 |
12.1 |
41 |
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill |
0.354 |
9.0 |
42 |
Kansas City |
0.350 |
8.5 |
43 |
Indianapolis |
0.308 |
8.2 |
44 |
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill |
0.296 |
8.7 |
45 |
Nashville |
0.260 |
6.9 |
46 |
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland |
0.206 |
3.3 |
47 |
Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point |
0.197 |
4.8 |
48 |
Oklahoma City |
0.155 |
3.2 |
Calculated from National Transit Database |