The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) recently released its quarterly performance report, highlighting additional
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Amtrak, highway travel, and ferry ridership.
The Gray Notebook details statewide travel trends amidst the continued push towards economic recovery: highway travel has recovered from –63% to –8% below historical rates, transit ridership remains at –60% below, and pedestrian travel
has recovered from –58% to +7%. Other systems, like Washington State Ferries, Amtrak, freight, and aviation have yet to recover. This being the case, travel in Washington is increasing across all modes of transportation.
As part of WSDOT’s performance metrics, the agency published its “COVID-19 Multimodal Transportation System Performance Dashboard” and “
Multimodal Mobility Dashboard.” WSDOT’s dashboards provide insight to system-wide multimodal transportation changes, as well as ridership rates, travel time, lane miles traveled, and collision incidents.
For more information on performance metrics and agency accountability, click here.