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Ridership and Performance Statistics

Monthly performance data, ridership trends and rider characteristics

Performance reports

Annual reports

Ridership trends

• Riders boarded a TriMet bus, MAX train or WES train 99.3 million times in Fiscal Year 2010.
• Weekly ridership on buses, MAX and WES has increased for all but one year since 1988.
• For more than a decade, ridership has been increasing faster than other indicators of regional growth, including population and automobile vehicle miles traveled.
• TriMet carries more people than any other U.S. transit system its size.

Rider characteristics

• 84% of riders say they have a car available but prefer to ride TriMet, or they choose not to own a car because they prefer TriMet.
• 80% of residents in the TriMet service area (age 16 and older) say they ride TriMet to some degree, and 43% ride "a couple of times a month or more."
• About half (51%) of riders say they use a combination of buses and MAX, 34% use MAX only, and 13% use buses only.
• 77% of frequent/regular riders say they approve of the job we're doing.

Learn more: TriMet Customer Profile PDF

Source: TriMet 2010 Attitude & Awareness Study, a random telephone survey conducted among a representative sample of 1,000 adults (16 years of age +) residing in the TriMet service area. The survey was conducted from November 2010 to January 2011.