Through the door-to-door demand response transportation program the agency served 259 new clients, had a total of 20,620 one-way trips, and accumulated 171,774 total passenger miles.
If an airplane has 180 passengers, then the passenger miles are 180 times higher, which translates into a considerably lower fatality risk on a per passenger basis.
Almost all of these trips occurred in the nation's 100 largest metro areas, which account for more than 95 percent of all transit passenger miles traveled.