Approaching the City
Most air passengers arrive in Jackson through Jackson-Evers International Airport. American Eagle, Continental Express, Delta/ASA/Comair/SkyWest, Northwest/Airlink, Southwest, and US Airways Express serve the airport, transporting a total of nearly 1.2 million passengers in 2004. Hawkins Field, located in northwest Jackson and serving Hawkins Industrial Park, accommodates private and company planes. Motor traffic is handled by two primary interstate highways, I-55 running north and south, and I-20 going east and west; a third interstate, I-220, connects I-20 with I-55. Additional approaches to the city are U.S. highways 49, 51, and 80, and state highways 18, 25, and 468. Amtrak and Greyhound-Trailways Bus Lines accommodate rail and bus passengers traveling to Jackson.
Traveling in the City
Jackson's urban mass transit is furnished by 45 city buses operated by JATRAN. The system's fixed route service carried 782,610 passengers for more than one million miles in 2003. More than 37,000 passengers with disabilities utilized the system's handlift service transportation that year.
