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The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States. Also included are some of the urban streetcar/trolley systems that provide regular public transit service (operating year-round and at least five days per week), ones with data available from the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Ridership Reports.
The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership.Daily figures for American and Canadian light rail systems are "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated.
Light rail in the United States; List of United States light rail systems by ridership; List of rail transit systems in the United States, which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems. In the state-by-state tables below: A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system.
It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see: List of United States light rail systems by ridership for light rail systems. All ridership figures represent unlinked passenger trips, so line transfers on multi-line systems register as separate trips.
New Orleans streetcars, early 1900s. From the mid-19th century onwards, horse-drawn trams (or horsecars) were used in cities around the world.The St. Charles Avenue Line of New Orleans' streetcar system is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world, beginning operation as a horse-drawn system in 1835.
The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association 's (APTA) Ridership Reports Statistics for the fourth quarter of 2023, [ 1 ] unless otherwise indicated.
Light rail is a commonly used mode of public transit in North America.The term light rail was coined in 1972 by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA; the precursor to the U.S. Federal Transit Administration) to describe new streetcar transformations which were taking place in Europe and the United States.
Light rail/interurban: Rio de Janeiro [note 1] Brazil: Santa Teresa Tram: 1877 [294] 4 1 6.0 km (3.7 mi) Heritage tram: Rio de Janeiro Light Rail: 2016 [295] 28 3 28 km (17.4 mi) Light rail/Tram: Santos, São Paulo and the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista: Baixada Santista Light Rail: 2016 [296] 15 1 11.5 km (7.1 mi) Light rail ...