Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District
Illinois Terminal, a multimodal transit hub in Champaign, Illinois | |
| Founded | December 15, 1970 |
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| Commenced operation | August 2, 1971 |
| Headquarters | 1101 E. University Ave Urbana, Illinois 61802 |
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| Hubs | Illinois Terminal |
| Fleet | 128 buses |
| Daily ridership | 46,100 (weekdays, Q4 2025) |
| Annual ridership | 11,661,600 (2025) |
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| Chief executive | Karl Gnadt |
| Annual budget | $43,232,000 operating budget; $16,675,700 capital budget (FY2021) |
| Employees | 377 |
| Website | mtd |
The Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District (colloquially known as the MTD or CUMTD) is a mass transit system that serves the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area in central-eastern Illinois. MTD is headquartered in Urbana and operates its primary hub at the intermodal Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign. In 2025, the system had a ridership of 11,661,600, or about 46,100 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2025.
At the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, which lies within the District, all students pay a $70 transportation fee every semester in exchange for unlimited use of the bus services. Primarily funded by property taxes, MTD currently levies about 28 cents of property taxes per $100 of assessed valuation; bus fares are another primary source of funding. MTD is led by a seven-member Board of Trustees, who are appointed by the Champaign County Board. Buses are produced by the Canadian company New Flyer and the American company Gillig. MTD introduced hybrid buses to its fleet in Fall 2009, and currently the vast majority of its buses are hybrid. Minibuses used for paratransit service, SafeRides service, and (occasionally) fixed route service, are cutaway vans with a Ford E series chassis.