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The Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority (or DART) is a transit agency based in Dallas, Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and 12 of its suburbs. With the extension of the Orange Line to DFW Airport station at DFW Airport on August 18, 2014, DART is the largest light rail operator in the United States, with of track. == Ridership == Average daily ridership for DART has been in the vicinity of 200,000 riders per day over the last couple decades. In the 1st quarter of 1998, DART's weekday ridership averaged 211,000 riders per day system-wide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RIDERSHIP REPORT - First Quarter 1998 )〕 Total ridership numbers have risen and fallen since then; total ridership, including ridership, has been as high as 248,500 average weekday riders in the 3rd quarter of 2008,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RIDERSHIP REPORT - Third Quarter 2008 )〕 and as low as 194,700 average weekday riders in the 1st quarter of 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RIDERSHIP REPORT - First Quarter 2010 )〕 However, after a year-long study in 2012 that counted passenger counts through both the existing manual method and a new automated counting system, DART concluded that it has been underreporting rail ridership by more than 15 percent each year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 inMotion - The official newsletter of Dallas Area Rapid Transit - Spring 2013 )〕 In the 4th quarter of 2012, DART reported total ridership of 252,900 weekday riders on average.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RIDERSHIP REPORT - Fourth Quarter 2012 )〕 In the fourth quarter of 2014, DART reported that total ridership had declined to 233,900 weekday riders. DART reported the following ridership numbers in the 4th quarter of 2012:〔 * Bus: 136,500 average weekday riders * Light rail: 103,100 average weekday riders * : 7,300 average weekday riders * On-Call: 2,000 average weekday riders * Vanpool: 4,000 average weekday riders 4th quarter of 2014 ridership numbers: * Bus: 126,300 average weekday riders * DART Light Rail: 101,800 average weekday riders (down from 2012 in spite of having added trackage and stations to the system * DART TRE: 8,200 average weekday riders * On-Call: 2,600 average weekday riders * Vanpool: 3,200 average weekday riders 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dallas Area Rapid Transit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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