Benzie Transportation Authority

Demand Response at Benzie Transportation Authority

Benzie Transportation Authority carried 120,700 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $24.81 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Beulah, MI
FY2025 boardings
120.7K
+2.3% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$24.81
+12% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$22.73
+13.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.4%
-9.3% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.99M
Vehicles in service
22
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.07
39.3K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

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 120,700 — 39,301 $2,994,770 $24.81 $22.73 8.4% 22

Full series

Every year Benzie Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 120,700 — 943,361 39,301 $2,994,770 $251,801 $24.81 $22.73 8.4%
2024 117,964 — 974,922 36,142 $2,613,061 $242,220 $22.15 $20.10 9.3%
2023 105,821 — 946,906 34,048 $2,384,088 $203,155 $22.53 $20.61 8.5%
2022 80,650 — 765,790 28,673 $2,062,295 $145,579 $25.57 $23.77 7.1%
2021 60,885 — 573,928 22,414 $1,621,867 $97,817 $26.64 $25.03 6%
2020 52,987 — 515,016 22,787 $1,564,475 $73,785 $29.53 $28.13 4.7%
2019 74,467 — 567,545 27,563 $1,741,213 $131,183 $23.38 $21.62 7.5%
2018 73,914 — 495,054 24,886 $1,317,303 $120,186 $17.82 $16.20 9.1%
2017 60,257 — 442,903 23,691 $1,347,087 $101,347 $22.36 $20.67 7.5%
2016 53,013 — 425,814 23,084 $1,163,411 $91,168 $21.95 $20.23 7.8%
2015 71,954 — 513,602 28,306 $1,365,491 $117,198 $18.98 $17.35 8.6%