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Greyhound Facts And Figures
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- Intercity bus, like Greyhound, is the safest mode of transportation over cars, trucks, trains, planes and other commercial vehicles, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
- The Greyhound fleet consists of about 1,250 buses, with an average age of 7.2 years. One Greyhound bus takes an average of 34 cars off the road, and achieves 184 passenger miles per gallon of fuel.
- Greyhound uses approximately 90 company-operated bus terminals and 850 agency-operated terminals or sales agencies. Including all stops, Greyhound serves more than 1,700 destinations in the United States.
- Greyhound employs more than 8,400 nationwide, including more than 940 at its Dallas corporate headquarters, and more than 3,000 drivers based in 80 locations across the country.
- Greyhound operated nearly 5.8 billion passenger miles last year. The U.S. operation, as well as its operating subsidiaries and Greyhound Canada, carried nearly 25 million people.
- Greyhound was founded in 1914 as the Mesaba Transportation Company in Hibbing, Minn. The company was renamed the Motor Transit Corporation (1922) and Northland Transportation Company (1926) before incorporating under the Greyhound name in 1930.
- The current Greyhound Lines was organized in 1987 after it purchased the United States bus holdings of the former Greyhound Corporation (now known as Viad Corp.) Greyhound Lines was acquired by Laidlaw International, Inc. in 1999, which was subsequently acquired by FirstGroup plc in 2007.
- Top 10 busiest terminals based on passenger volume in 2007:
| 1 |
New York, New York |
| 2 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 3 |
Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 4 |
Richmond, Virginia |
| 5 |
Los Angeles, California |
| 6 |
Washington, D.C. |
| 7 |
Atlanta, Georgia |
| 8 |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| 9 |
Nashville, Tennessee |
| 10 |
Dallas, Texas |
- One-third of Greyhound passengers make more than $35,000 per year.
- More than half of Greyhound riders have received higher education beyond high school.
- Forty-two percent of Greyhound passengers are between the ages of 18 and 34.
- Nearly 60 percent of Greyhound passengers travel less than 450 miles.
- In many cases, Greyhound passengers report they own automobiles considered sufficiently reliable for a trip of a similar distance, but travel by bus because it is safe and more economical.
- The majority of Greyhound passengers travel to visit family and friends, but more than 21 percent travel for business reasons.
- The average ticket price is $45.
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