For our 2023 report card, we commissioned ARIES for Transit (formerly DC Metro Hero) to do an analysis of the reliability of public transit systems around the U.S. –specifically, systems that serve metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) similar in size to Greater Baltimore. From July through October of this year, ARIES–a software that monitors how well transit systems are operating– measured how “on time” transit systems were in 19 MSAs including the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson MSA.
According to the ARIES analysis, Baltimore had the third-worst reliability compared to 19 peer regions–nearly 20% of its scheduled bus, rail, light rail, and Metro Subway trips during the study period were either missing from Baltimore’s real time data feeds or did not actually run at all.
You can read ARIES’s full analysis “Public Transit Reliability in Greater Baltimore” here.
