Ridership Statistics
| CTA Ridership |  |
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Monthly Bus Summary Monthly Bus Route Detail Monthly Rail Summary Monthly Rail Station Detail Rail Ridership Search Published CTA Ridership Reports |
CTA bus and rail ridership results are all collected using the farebox. Each customer boarding a bus or passing through a rail station turnstile is counted as a single rider. |
| Metra Ridership |  |
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Monthly Rail Summary Monthly Branch Detail Weekday Ridership Ridership by Time of Day |
Metra Rail Summary data is an estimate based on ticket sales (monthly, 10-ride and one way) for a given month.
The data is by line and branch and is a combined total for weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday. Metra Station Detail data is based on a count of boardings (the number of passengers boarding a train) and alightings (the number of passengers exiting a train) on a given weekday for each station and for each train. |
| Pace Ridership |  |
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Monthly Bus Summary Monthly Bus Route Detail Monthly Paratransit and Vanpool |
Pace ridership results are primarily collected using the electronic fare collection systems for each passenger boarding a bus. Ridership for Pace's contract bus routes, which do not have electronic fare collections systems, is manually reported. Both datasets are reporting in the RTAMS. |
| RTA Systemwide Ridership | 
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| Annual Unlinked Passenger Trips | The RTA's annual unlinked passenger trips include CTA bus, CTA rail, Metra rail, Pace bus, CTA and Pace paratransit, Pace dial-a-ride, and Pace vanpool services. |