Augusta Transit

Demand Response at Augusta Transit

Augusta Transit carried 18,941 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $80.48 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Augusta, GA
← All of Augusta Transit
FY2024 boardings
18.9K
+2.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$80.48
+8.7% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$78.06
+8.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3%
-2.7% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
85.3K
average trip 4.5 miles
Operating cost
$1.52M
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.69
11.2K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

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, FY2024

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
Purchased transportation 18,941 85,290 11,190 $1,524,438 $80.48 $78.06 3% 7

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 Augusta Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 18,941 85,290 124,271 11,190 $1,524,438 $45,821 $80.48 $78.06 3%
2023 18,504 90,671 117,158 9,941 $1,369,814 $42,317 $74.03 $71.74 3.1%
2022 20,907 106,566 139,600 10,538 $1,215,253 $51,626 $58.13 $55.66 4.2%
2021 25,187 126,788 158,127 11,791 $1,184,746 $26,191 $47.04 $46.00 2.2%
2020 23,386 115,835 146,845 11,539 $953,483 $17,917 $40.77 $40.01 1.9%
2019 28,422 148,738 172,300 13,853 $975,536 $71,140 $34.32 $31.82 7.3%
2018 29,087 162,535 205,428 18,109 $1,148,915 $72,369 $39.50 $37.01 6.3%
2017 26,440 140,066 184,062 15,797 $1,054,320 $60,831 $39.88 $37.58 5.8%
2016 27,392 140,435 187,666 17,181 $1,052,123 $68,621 $38.41 $35.90 6.5%
2015 22,363 105,075 146,452 13,555 $877,159 $60,107 $39.22 $36.54 6.9%