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Bus in the National Transit Database

Transit agencies, on bus service, reported 3,792,481,870 unlinked passenger trips in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

National total, bus

3.8 billion
Unlinked passenger trips: Annual totals, 2025; 3,792,481,870; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.; 2.0 billion
Vehicle revenue miles: Annual totals, 2025; 1,950,622,559; Every annual row for this mode reported miles.; 1,155
Agencies: Reporting this mode, 2025

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 3,792,481,870; Every annual row for this mode reported trips.
Vehicle revenue miles: 1,950,622,559; 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 bus trips

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The agencies that reported the most bus unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	State (registry)	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	MTA New York City Transit	New York	651,521,206	84,348,953
2	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority	California	240,011,124	68,889,533
3	Chicago Transit Authority	Illinois	199,648,790	54,655,086
4	New Jersey Transit Corporation	New Jersey	141,168,171	82,452,071
5	MTA Bus Company	New York	134,291,965	27,516,221
6	Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority	District of Columbia	124,032,263	38,364,705
7	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority	Pennsylvania	113,876,069	36,689,509
8	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority	Massachusetts	86,818,002	21,051,306
9	City and County of San Francisco	California	81,134,696	13,012,660
10	King County	Washington	78,868,535	33,381,073
11	Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas	Texas	58,767,996	38,504,600
12	County of Miami-Dade	Florida	56,673,599	24,091,159
13	Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada	Nevada	55,770,766	18,899,025
14	Maryland Transit Administration	Maryland	49,573,579	21,621,657
15	Denver Regional Transportation District	Colorado	44,014,803	27,631,636
16	Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon	Oregon	42,283,831	21,238,785
17	City and County of Honolulu	Hawaii	40,887,229	18,144,053
18	San Diego Metropolitan Transit System	California	38,120,886	20,633,326
19	Metro Transit	Minnesota	37,276,994	20,191,723
20	Orange County Transportation Authority	California	36,951,709	17,496,811
21	Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District	California	34,766,776	16,903,740
22	Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority	Georgia	34,713,269	24,212,526
23	Pittsburgh Regional Transit	Pennsylvania	32,983,553	18,964,078
24	VIA Metropolitan Transit	Texas	29,383,350	18,438,130
25	Dallas Area Rapid Transit	Texas	28,492,907	25,695,230

The first 25 of 1,157 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