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Public transit in Tennessee

Transit agencies registered in Tennessee reported 21,797,475 unlinked passenger trips on rows with a mode in report year 2025, according to the Federal Transit Administration.

Tennessee in the National Transit Database

21.8 million
Unlinked passenger trips: Rows with a mode, 2025; 21,797,475; Rank 29 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.; 45.9 million
Vehicle revenue miles: Rows with a mode, 2025; 45,942,528; 26
Reporting records: Registered in Tennessee, 2025; Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

About these figures

Unlinked passenger trips: 21,797,475; Rank 29 of 56 states and territories ranked; a tie shares a rank.
Vehicle revenue miles: 45,942,528
Reporting records: Every record reported trips on each of its rows with a mode.

Agencies in Tennessee, by trips

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Transit agencies registered in Tennessee by unlinked passenger trips, 2025, most first
Rank	Agency	City	Reporter type	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
1	Metropolitan Transit Authority	Madison	Full Reporter	9,094,971	10,003,063
2	City of Knoxville	Knoxville	Full Reporter	2,684,031	3,303,334
3	City of Memphis	Memphis	Full Reporter	2,528,477	4,761,976
4	City of Pigeon Forge	Pigeon Forge	Rural Reporter	1,708,920	408,687
5	Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority	Chattanooga	Full Reporter	1,572,844	2,517,864
6	City of Gatlinburg	Gatlinburg	Rural Reporter	794,907	264,442
7	City of Clarksville	Clarksville	Reduced Reporter	515,792	1,509,278
8	City of Johnson City	Johnson City	Reduced Reporter	419,132	580,830
9	Upper-Cumberland Human Resource Agency	Cookeville	Rural Reporter	327,735	2,880,173
10	Jackson Transit Authority	Jackson	Full Reporter	322,121	642,630
11	East Tennessee Human Resource Agency, Inc.	Knoxville	Reduced Reporter	248,138	3,402,552
12	Regional Transportation Authority	Madison	Full Reporter	224,500	539,005
13	South Central Tennessee Development District	Mt Pleasant	Rural Reporter	189,110	2,248,285
14	First Tennessee Human Resource Agency	Johnson City	Reduced Reporter	134,933	2,292,518
15	Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency	Nashville	Reduced Reporter	121,487	1,628,327
16	Northwest Tennessee Human Resource Agency	Martin	Rural Reporter	108,828	1,553,086
17	City of Murfreesboro	Murfreesboro	Reduced Reporter	107,392	240,340
18	Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency-Rural Division	Dunlap	Rural Reporter	106,134	2,271,610
19	Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee	Knoxville	Full Reporter	102,055	959,441
20	Franklin Transit Authority	Franklin	Reduced Reporter	98,502	480,425
21	City of Kingsport	Kingsport	Reduced Reporter	88,391	285,886
22	Southwest Human Resource Agency	Henderson	Rural Reporter	87,314	1,295,802
23	Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency	Dunlap	Reduced Reporter	76,547	276,088
24	The Transportation Management Association Group	Franklin	Full Reporter	66,042	809,345
25	City of Bristol Tennessee	Bristol	Reduced Reporter	42,745	162,399
26	Delta Human Resource Agency	Covington	Rural Reporter	26,427	625,142

26 of 26 records are ranked. A record is ranked only when every one of its rows with a mode reports trips.

Modes in Tennessee

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Annual unlinked passenger trips and vehicle revenue miles in Tennessee by mode, 2025
Mode	Agencies	Unlinked passenger trips	Vehicle revenue miles
Bus	18	19,157,685	19,538,360
Demand response	22	2,073,654	25,037,833
Inclined plane	1	231,999	8,343
Commuter rail	1	141,895	195,691
Vanpool	2	75,134	841,321
Commuter bus	1	73,513	311,338
Streetcar rail	1	43,595	9,642

Rankings this appears in

No. 29 States by transit agency trips, 2025: New York leads with 3.5 billion

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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