Summary

The region’s intercity bus network serves thousands of person trips daily. Intercity Bus Traffic and Patronage in the Metropolitan Washington Region is the region’s first known effort to quantify intercity bus ridership, where travelers board and alight, and origins and destinations outside of the region.

In the fall of 2016, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) conducted a count of intercity bus travel to and from the metropolitan Washington region. The impetus for the study was primarily due to May 2016 updated regulations by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration which called, in part, for the inclusion of intercity bus facilities in each state’s continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive performance-based statewide multimodal transportation planning process.