Bureau Putnam Area Rural Transit

Demand Response at Bureau Putnam Area Rural Transit

Bureau Putnam Area Rural Transit carried 66,563 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $27.31 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Princeton, IL
FY2024 boardings
66.6K
+14.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$27.31
+5.8% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$22.13
-9.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
19%
+268% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.82M
Vehicles in service
25
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.04
21.9K 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 66,563 21,915 $1,817,569 $27.31 $22.13 19% 25

Full series

Every year Bureau Putnam Area Rural Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 66,563 629,381 21,915 $1,817,569 $344,703 $27.31 $22.13 19%
2023 58,139 567,215 21,785 $1,499,952 $77,291 $25.80 $24.47 5.2%
2022 57,948 475,431 17,432 $1,525,139 $65,170 $26.32 $25.19 4.3%
2021 42,345 392,748 12,571 $1,769,975 $52,899 $41.80 $40.55 3%
2020 56,582 489,528 17,704 $1,518,798 $53,326 $26.84 $25.90 3.5%
2019 65,808 602,912 22,466 $1,517,697 $49,058 $23.06 $22.32 3.2%
2018 64,523 604,526 22,516 $1,590,011 $61,513 $24.64 $23.69 3.9%
2017 67,082 595,578 22,897 $1,339,742 $50,782 $19.97 $19.21 3.8%
2016 67,753 569,911 22,321 $1,179,148 $82,353 $17.40 $16.19 7%
2015 66,824 478,798 32,564 $1,112,707 $84,688 $16.65 $15.38 7.6%