Iowa State is home to a wide variety of transportation options designed to help its residents and visitors get around efficiently. The city's public transit system, CyRide, provides access to all major areas of town with bus routes that span the entire city. For those traveling within the city limits, taxi and ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft are available. For those needing to travel outside of Iowa City, Amtrak and Greyhound offer intercity bus services to nearby cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and others. There is also an airport in Des Moines which serves all major airlines for air travel needs. All these transportation options make getting around Iowa City easy and convenient.
The typical American commute has been getting longer each year since 2010. The average one-way commute in Iowa takes 19.0 minutes. That's shorter than the US average of 26.4 minutes.
How people in Iowa get to work:
- 81.0% drive their own car alone
- 8.4% carpool with others
- 4.6% work from home
- 1.1% take mass transit