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produced by M.J. Bradley and Associates, also shows

that motorcoaches produce carbon emissions of only

56 grams per passenger mile, compared to 371 grams
for a single - passenger car and 299 grams for a transit

bus.

The motorcoach industry is composed largely of small
entrepreneurial businesses.

There are over 3500 companies, 90 percent of which

have fewer than twenty – five buses. These

entrepreneurial companies operate about 19,000
motorcoaches, account

for almost 40 percent of the total industry mileage, and

carry one in five passengers.
More than half of motorcoach jobs are with small

businesses employing fewer than fifty people. The

industry employs 200,000 workers, not including jobs in

the bus manufacturing and supplier sector. Clearly,
motorcoach travel contributes significantly to tourism

revenues in local communities. In Washington, D.C.,

alone, 23.4 percent of 21 million annual visitors arrive
by motorcoach. If only half of those visitors came as

part of an overnight tour, $424 million would flow into

those local businesses.
Motorcoaches are also the intermodal glue in America ’

s often - disjointed transportation system.

Motorcoaches link passengers arriving and departing

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