Public Transit
The county does not operate its own public transit service but works with three partner agencies to provide service throughout the County. JAUNT is a service provider offering rural on-demand service, commuter routes, and paratransit services within Albemarle County. Commuter routes they operate include the Crozet Connect, 29 North Connect, and regular routes from locations outside of Albemarle to throughout the greater Charlottesville Area.
Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) is a City of Charlottesville department which provides fixed-route bus service throughout the greater Charlottesville area including Albemarle County. The third service provider is University Transit Service (UTS) which primarily serves University of Virginia students in the immediate area surrounding the University. UTS allows the public to ride on their system for free.
Air Travel
The Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO) is a commercial service airport offering one-stop international and domestic destinations, as well as daily non-stop flights around the U.S. It is served by American Airlines, Delta, and United offering over 50 daily non-stop flights to and from Charlotte, Philadelphia, New York/LaGuardia, Washington/Dulles, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Rail
Passenger and freight rail service is available throughout the region on tracks owned by two Class I freight railroads: Norfolk Southern Railroad's north-south Piedmont mainline and CSX Railroad's east-west line, which is leased and operated by Buckingham Branch Railroad, a local short line railroad.
Passenger rail is operated through the City of Charlottesville’s West Main Street Passenger Rail Station and provided by AMTRAK, which offer daily round trip service on the AMTRAK Crescent between New Orleans and New York. AMTRAK also provides long distance service three days a week on the Cardinal line between Chicago and New York, including stops throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. Both routes link the region to Washington, D.C. and the Northeast Corridor.
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