Brookings Area Transit Authority

Demand Response at Brookings Area Transit Authority

Brookings Area Transit Authority carried 157,974 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $12.88 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Brookings, SD
← All of Brookings Area Transit Authority
FY2025 boardings
158K
+3.2% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$12.88
+0.9% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$10.47
+4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
18.7%
-11.5% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.04M
Vehicles in service
26
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.42
35.7K 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 157,974 — 35,731 $2,035,134 $12.88 $10.47 18.7% 26

Full series

Every year Brookings Area Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 157,974 — 475,870 35,731 $2,035,134 $380,727 $12.88 $10.47 18.7%
2024 153,081 — 467,265 34,586 $1,955,069 $413,138 $12.77 $10.07 21.1%
2023 143,863 — 431,069 31,450 $1,761,417 $272,347 $12.24 $10.35 15.5%
2022 142,394 — 404,540 31,541 $1,709,775 $306,761 $12.01 $9.85 17.9%
2021 121,871 — 382,718 27,353 $1,646,147 $289,806 $13.51 $11.13 17.6%
2020 89,805 — 326,702 23,797 $1,733,901 $182,487 $19.31 $17.28 10.5%
2019 142,019 — 458,219 33,028 $1,621,940 $221,380 $11.42 $9.86 13.6%
2018 148,208 — 474,554 33,935 $1,374,099 $199,793 $9.27 $7.92 14.5%
2017 147,006 — 477,662 32,806 $1,144,173 $179,620 $7.78 $6.56 15.7%
2016 146,312 — 440,420 32,146 $1,189,597 $169,638 $8.13 $6.97 14.3%
2015 118,790 — 393,350 26,920 $1,247,704 $200,312 $10.50 $8.82 16.1%