Public Transit

Graphs at a Glance

Commute to Work, By MSA, 2008
  Total Commuters Car, Truck or Van (%) Public Transportation (Excluding Taxi) (%) Taxicab, Motorcycle, Bicycle, or Other Means (%) Walk (%)
Virginia 3,692,768 92.84 3.16 1.55 2.44
USA 139,149,581 89.95 5.20 1.90 2.94
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 820,982 93.56 2.24 1.35 2.85
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC 875,963 95.25 2.32 1.16 1.27
Jacksonville, FL 618,702 95.11 1.22 1.97 1.70
Raleigh-Cary, NC 515,573 95.93 0.98 1.51 1.58
Savannah, GA 161,461 94.89 2.17 1.33 1.62
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV -- Leading VA MSA 2,946,450 81.35 13.93 1.58 3.14

Approximately two percent of the population in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area uses public transportation to commute to work.

Norfolk International Airport
  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Passengers (in millions) 3.0 3.0 3.5 3.4 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.4
Pounds of cargo (in millions) 63.8 63.5 72.4 71.2 70.3 70.0 69.0 70.0 64.1 59.2

Passenger and cargo traffic at the Norfolk International Airport decreased between 2008 and 2009 due to the recession.