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MARTA

Key Performance Indicators

Combined Ridership (unlinked trips) 

Definition: Unlinked trips are counted each time passengers board MARTA vehicles (for example, a passenger’s journey from the Airport station to the final destination may require two unlinked trips - taking a train to a station and then transferring to a bus to complete the one-way travel). 

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Performance (April 2026):

Combined Ridership for the month of April was 7,511,208 unlinked passenger boardings, exceeding the forecast by 2,395,078. There was a changed methodology for collecting rail ridership starting in January 2026.  Rail ridership will be estimated based on manual counts for a statistically valid sample.