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Originally Posted by ardecila
Yeah, but they source their data from the agencies. I don't know if they do any normalization to make the figures more comparable, though.
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At the very very least, we know they're presenting it the same way for all the agencies. If you go to your transit agency webpage and it says "ridership = xxxx" you have no idea whether that's linked or unlinked. Boston might say one, while Philadelphia says the other. At least with APTA we know what we're dealing with for every single number. Every transit agency is treated equally, so comparisons between them are as valid as possible.
So APTA is both the easiest place to get numbers and the only place where we know they're apples-to-apples across agencies. I can't think of any reason why we'd use anything else for this thread.