Alamo Regional Transit

Demand Response at Alamo Regional Transit

Alamo Regional Transit carried 83,456 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $58.97 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response San Antonio, TX
FY2025 boardings
83.5K
-14.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$58.97
+4.6% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$46.00
+10.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
22%
-15.2% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$4.92M
Vehicles in service
38
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.6
52.1K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through November 2024.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

This service against every demand response operator in the country.

Cost per ride

This agency against the national figure for the same mode

Fare recovery

Share of operating cost covered by fares

Directly operated and purchased service, FY2025

NTD reports these separately. An agency that contracts a service out reports the contract price, which bundles costs a directly operating agency reports line by line.

Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery Vehicles
Directly operated 83,456 — 52,079 $4,921,806 $58.97 $46.00 22% 38

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Alamo Regional Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 83,456 — 1,026,912 52,079 $4,921,806 $1,082,589 $58.97 $46.00 22%
2024 97,551 1,142,440 1,028,909 51,113 $5,498,959 $1,426,209 $56.37 $41.75 25.9%
2023 96,228 1,123,225 1,139,207 55,227 $5,533,293 $1,512,604 $57.50 $41.78 27.3%
2022 121,948 1,320,211 1,416,893 65,699 $6,721,417 $1,354,293 $55.12 $44.01 20.1%
2021 115,657 1,033,256 1,491,439 78,871 $6,808,124 $561,669 $58.86 $54.01 8.2%
2020 107,222 1,201,766 1,083,321 68,140 $4,855,303 $331,604 $45.28 $42.19 6.8%
2019 130,793 1,401,699 1,233,867 74,777 $4,441,610 $271,221 $33.96 $31.89 6.1%
2018 117,378 1,230,524 1,070,586 63,149 $4,234,303 $236,334 $36.07 $34.06 5.6%
2017 101,394 1,201,766 847,457 52,911 $4,164,526 $206,689 $41.07 $39.03 5%
2016 89,878 1,177,770 704,797 45,669 $3,515,676 $196,233 $39.12 $36.93 5.6%
2015 111,145 1,533,260 969,085 55,929 $3,991,361 $196,568 $35.91 $34.14 4.9%