Blair Senior Services, Inc.

Demand Response at Blair Senior Services, Inc.

Blair Senior Services, Inc. carried 86,266 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $27.59 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Altoona, PA
FY2024 boardings
86.3K
-1.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$27.59
+0.2% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$1.28
-70% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
95.4%
+12.8% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.38M
Vehicles in service
24
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.85
30.2K 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, 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 86,266 30,219 $2,379,669 $27.59 $1.28 95.4% 24

Full series

Every year Blair Senior Services, Inc. reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 86,266 421,694 30,219 $2,379,669 $2,269,459 $27.59 $1.28 95.4%
2023 87,509 417,919 28,959 $2,408,710 $2,036,239 $27.53 $4.26 84.5%
2022 78,189 404,797 29,847 $2,171,147 $1,407,712 $27.77 $9.76 64.8%
2021 69,936 394,101 31,902 $2,047,845 $1,250,028 $29.28 $11.41 61%
2020 95,338 454,735 36,213 $2,365,730 $1,664,177 $24.81 $7.36 70.3%