U.S. public transit - travel frequency - poll 2015

This statistic illustrates the result of a survey that took place from 2008 to 2015 among U.S. transit travelers regarding their travel frequency per week. During that time period, half of the respondents stated they used public transit for five days per week.

Percentage of respondents frequently using public transit in U.S. from 2008 to 2015, based on number of days using transit

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Less than one	8
1 day	5
2 days	4
3 days	11
4 days	10
5 days	50
6 days	8
7 days	5

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Release date

January 2017

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2008 to 2015

Number of respondents

560,628 respondents

Age group

14 years and older

Supplementary notes

The report was prepared for the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) by CJI Research Corporation and uses data from 695,748 passenger questionnaires completed from 2008 to 2015, making it the most extensive public transit report in terms of demographics in the United States. The survey data includes a total of 211 reports on systems that carried a total of more than eight billion unlinked passenger trips. The majority of the surveys were paper-based with only one major survey in a large urban area conducted on a tablet and another major household survey conducted by telephone.

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