Baldwin Regional Area Transit System

Demand Response at Baldwin Regional Area Transit System

Baldwin Regional Area Transit System carried 100,167 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $34.51 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Bay Minette, AL
FY2024 boardings
100.2K
-1.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$34.51
+8.7% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$31.39
+9.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
9%
-7% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
1.08M
average trip 10.77 miles
Operating cost
$3.46M
Vehicles in service
28
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.72
36.9K 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
Directly operated 100,167 1,078,904 36,854 $3,456,974 $34.51 $31.39 9% 28

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 Baldwin Regional Area Transit System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 100,167 1,078,904 851,744 36,854 $3,456,974 $312,612 $34.51 $31.39 9%
2023 101,576 1,077,003 859,938 37,119 $3,224,241 $313,417 $31.74 $28.66 9.7%
2022 95,362 1,403,536 888,152 38,420 $3,140,766 $370,690 $32.94 $29.05 11.8%
2021 70,029 1,536,823 685,083 33,659 $2,771,974 $276,015 $39.58 $35.64 10%
2020 61,799 867,421 350,354 21,714 $2,346,982 $296,392 $37.98 $33.18 12.6%
2019 133,765 2,204,812 446,470 25,694 $2,793,353 $530,100 $20.88 $16.92 19%
2018 318,721 3,272,549 721,956 39,259 $3,038,488 $871,326 $9.53 $6.80 28.7%
2017 365,783 7,912,914 712,975 37,159 $2,839,420 $425,967 $7.76 $6.60 15%
2016 392,701 7,381,555 536,586 26,239 $2,379,593 $461,322 $6.06 $4.88 19.4%
2015 331,209 741,355 37,492 $2,573,794 $462,577 $7.77 $6.37 18%