Record

Heavy rail in the National Transit Database

Transit agencies, on heavy rail service, reported 3,002,695,019 unlinked passenger trips in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

National total, heavy rail

3.0 billion
Unlinked passenger trips: Annual totals, 2025; 3,002,695,019; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.; 704.5 million
Vehicle revenue miles: Annual totals, 2025; 704,487,725; Every annual row for this mode reported miles.; 16
Agencies: Reporting this mode, 2025

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 3,002,695,019; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.
Vehicle revenue miles: 704,487,725; Every annual row for this mode reported miles.

All modes together reported 8,050,799,881 trips on rows with a mode in 2025. Rows the publisher gives no mode are in no mode.

Largest agencies by heavy rail trips

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The agencies that reported the most heavy rail unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	State (registry)	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	MTA New York City Transit	New York	2,315,209,369	357,809,273
2	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority	District of Columbia	179,589,512	95,577,792
3	Chicago Transit Authority	Illinois	138,392,897	81,729,034
4	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Massachusetts	93,891,610	22,084,550
5	Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation	New York	64,279,458	12,905,160
6	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority	Pennsylvania	61,580,169	14,800,469
7	San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District	California	56,592,868	67,749,001
8	Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority	Georgia	30,374,183	20,795,427
9	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority	California	21,993,894	5,040,375
10	County of Miami-Dade	Florida	14,980,418	7,405,508
11	Port Authority Transit Corporation	New Jersey	5,865,870	4,730,588
12	Maryland Transit Administration	Maryland	5,592,186	4,533,409
13	Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority	New York	5,436,672	2,960,120
14	Alternativa de Transporte Integrado	Puerto Rico	4,870,445	1,706,243
15	The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority	Ohio	2,860,386	2,295,932
16	City and County of Honolulu	Hawaii	1,185,082	2,364,844

The first 25 of 16 agencies ranked on this mode. A ranked agency reported trips on every row it has for the mode.

Sources

Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — transit service by agency and mode, 2025 report year — Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database · U.S. Government work · retrieved November 5, 2026
Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — every reporting transit agency, 2025 report year

Compiled automatically from Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — transit service by agency and mode, 2025 report year and Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database — every reporting transit agency, 2025 report year by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved November 5, 2026