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· Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota, Wisconsin;
· South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Colum-
bia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia;
· Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Vermont;
· Canada;
· Mexico; and
· Other: Puerto Rico, U.S. territories (including the U.S.
Virgin Islands and the Northern Marinara Islands).
Figure 1. Motorcoach or intercity bus.
Carriers by Segment
Table 4, Figure 5, and Figure 6 describe the motorcoach
industry by segment and fleet size. The industry segments used
were established by the American Bus Association in its 2000
Motorcoach Census and represent survey responses from
2,082 motorcoach firms. The census is designed to be repre-
sentative of the entire motorcoach population. Over 95 percent
of motorcoach firms reported offering charter service, and
about one-third reported offering tour service. Smaller firms
were less likely to report offering more specialized services
such as airport shuttles and commuter service. The totals do not
Figure 2. Transit bus operated by AC Transit. add to 100 percent because firms can offer multiple services.
carrier address, and may or may not reflect the actual operat- SAFETY
ing region of the company. In addition, MCMIS does not
include all intrastate firms. Census Bureau regions were used This section covers fatality, injury, and crash statistics for
to define geographic areas as follows: crashes involving motorcoaches. Fatality statistics for motor-
coaches, trucks, and school buses are available from the
· West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Although statistics derived from the MCMIS database do not
Washington, Wyoming; provide complete coverage for significant numbers of intra-
TABLE 1 Number of motorcoach firms, coaches owned, and coaches owned/operated
by fleet size, 2000
Motorcoach
Number of
Firms Coaches Owned Coaches Owned/Operated
Fleet Size All For Hire All For Hire All For Hire
1,000+ 6 5 13,718 12,154 17,425 15,861
500-999 2 2 1,295 1,295 1,383 1,383
100-499 83 74 10,627 9,726 12,684 11,683
50-99 131 116 7,293 6,573 8,808 7,816
25-49 283 250 7,876 6,916 9,641 8,458
10-24 647 573 8,186 7,261 9,747 8,616
6-9 598 512 3,591 3,117 4,343 3,717
2-5 2,452 1,870 5,854 4,845 7,198 5,655
1 4,366 2,425 3,362 2,249 4,366 2,425
Total 8,568 5,827 61,802 54,136 75,595 65,614
Note: This table excludes 82 firms with equal-sized school bus and motorcoach operations, 595 firms with equal-sized
school bus and trucking operations, and 2,157 bus firms that did not specify the type of vehicles they operated.
Source: FMCSA MCMIS, 2000.
