Beaver County Transit Authority

Demand Response at Beaver County Transit Authority

Beaver County Transit Authority carried 72,594 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $40.27 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Rochester, PA
FY2025 boardings
72.6K
-5% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$40.27
+7.4% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$30.42
+11.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
24.5%
-10.9% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
651.7K
average trip 8.98 miles
Operating cost
$2.92M
Vehicles in service
19
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.64
27.5K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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, 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 72,594 651,705 27,541 $2,923,177 $40.27 $30.42 24.5% 19

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 Beaver County Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 72,594 651,705 443,557 27,541 $2,923,177 $714,720 $40.27 $30.42 24.5%
2024 76,385 683,541 449,493 27,307 $2,863,871 $786,178 $37.49 $27.20 27.5%
2023 73,527 670,473 438,878 26,510 $2,650,102 $773,745 $36.04 $25.52 29.2%
2022 64,965 708,118 395,837 23,809 $2,300,815 $722,633 $35.42 $24.29 31.4%
2021 50,829 554,036 321,422 19,627 $2,064,474 $567,075 $40.62 $29.46 27.5%
2020 63,375 690,787 379,505 22,682 $2,181,422 $733,273 $34.42 $22.85 33.6%
2019 81,146 887,498 464,025 27,663 $2,224,818 $902,435 $27.42 $16.30 40.6%
2018 76,908 841,147 441,800 25,905 $1,980,621 $852,622 $25.75 $14.67 43%
2017 79,227 866,510 454,136 29,457 $1,864,228 $801,171 $23.53 $13.42 43%
2016 81,000 843,210 452,800 31,011 $2,042,293 $800,066 $25.21 $15.34 39.2%
2015 76,850 800,269 482,175 31,737 $2,090,567 $743,318 $27.20 $17.53 35.6%