A profile of public transportation passenger demographics and travel characteristics reported in on-board surveys

Data from 150 on-board vehicle passenger surveys conducted by public transportation agencies from 2000 through 2005 were compiled. This is the largest ever on-board survey study about the public transportation industry. These surveys summarized the results of questionnaires completed by over 496,000 public transit riders sampled by transit systems that carry 60 percent of all transit trips in the United States. They describe the demographics and travel behavior of public transit trips and the people who take those trips sampled by on-board surveys; they do not describe the average person who may take public transportation