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Light rail in the National Transit Database

Transit agencies, on light rail service, reported 369,085,501 unlinked passenger trips in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

National total, light rail

369.1 million
Unlinked passenger trips: Annual totals, 2025; 369,085,501; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.; 120.7 million
Vehicle revenue miles: Annual totals, 2025; 120,651,968; Every annual row for this mode reported miles.; 22
Agencies: Reporting this mode, 2025

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 369,085,501; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.
Vehicle revenue miles: 120,651,968; 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 light rail trips

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The agencies that reported the most light rail unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	State (registry)	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority	California	47,005,226	20,083,933
2	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Massachusetts	45,561,672	6,847,231
3	San Diego Metropolitan Transit System	California	42,654,274	12,265,920
4	Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority	Washington	37,948,202	12,881,410
5	City and County of San Francisco	California	31,495,404	5,567,403
6	Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon	Oregon	22,628,628	8,308,983
7	Dallas Area Rapid Transit	Texas	22,058,203	10,260,030
8	New Jersey Transit Corporation	New Jersey	20,896,513	2,673,211
9	Utah Transit Authority	Utah	13,279,002	6,656,503
10	Metro Transit	Minnesota	13,250,072	2,988,192
11	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas	Texas	13,200,771	3,360,270
12	Denver Regional Transportation District	Colorado	10,568,743	7,258,082
13	Valley Metro Rail, Inc.	Arizona	9,858,600	3,197,138
14	Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District	Missouri	8,230,482	4,804,955
15	Sacramento Regional Transit District	California	7,340,683	3,701,608
16	City of Charlotte North Carolina	North Carolina	6,225,751	1,623,104
17	Maryland Transit Administration	Maryland	5,472,754	2,504,363
18	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority	California	4,438,300	2,467,240
19	Pittsburgh Regional Transit	Pennsylvania	3,109,483	1,650,311
20	Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority	New York	2,269,180	707,066
21	Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads	Virginia	835,771	329,710
22	The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority	Ohio	757,787	515,305

The first 25 of 22 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