System Overview
- Established in 1949
- Today: 11 vessels serving 32 ports and…
- 320,000 passengers
- 100,000 cars and RVs
- 3,400 freight vans
- FY 2007
- Total revenue: $48.4 million
- Total expenditures: $144.3 million
- Public subsidy: $95.9 million
- Revenue as percent of expenditure: 34%
Who Takes the Ferry
- Over 1/2 of all AMHS traffic is made up by Alaska residents who live in communities with ferry service (88,000 Alaskans live in communities with ferry service)
- 1/10 of all traffic is by residents of Anchorage, Mat-Su, and the Interior (Anchorage has the 4th largest number of resident passengers)
- 1/3 of traffic is non-resident
Passenger and vehicle traffic in Southwest Alaska 1963-2006
Passenger and vehicle traffic in Southeast Alaska 1963-2006