New research reveals the regional and national trends of transit ridership—where transit is still a viable option and where travelers have increasingly relied on automobiles.

Yonah Freemark summarizes the findings of new research about historic trends in transit ridership:
Freemark created a database of commuting patterns in the U.S. metropolitan areas between 1970 and 2019 to complete the research. As noted by Freemark, the trends are driven by residential and economic growth outside of the largest U.S. cities:
According to Freemark, "Major regions in the South and Midwest have seen declining transit shares of the nation’s transit commuters." Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington, D.C. actually have more commuter traveling by transit now than they did in the 1970s.
Freemark also ties the transit ridership data to economic growth (i.e., venture capital investment) and also mines the trend data for lessons about how to get more people on transit.
An article by Tony Frangie Mawad for Bloomberg CityLab picked up the news of Freemark's research.

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