Capital Metro

Hybrid Rail at Capital Metro

Capital Metro carried 540,807 hybrid rail boardings in FY2024 at $62.74 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Hybrid Rail Austin, TX
FY2024 boardings
540.8K
+13.3% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$62.74
-14.1% nationwide $26.22
Subsidy per ride
$60.62
-13.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.4%
-10.2% nationwide 5.1%
Passenger miles
8M
average trip 14.79 miles
Operating cost
$33.9M
Vehicles in service
12
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
17.94
30.1K 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 hybrid rail 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
Purchased transportation 540,807 8,000,487 30,149 $33,927,697 $62.74 $60.62 3.4% 12

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Capital Metro reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 540,807 8,000,487 710,943 30,149 $33,927,697 $1,146,583 $62.74 $60.62 3.4%
2023 477,322 7,330,560 666,249 28,388 $34,842,819 $1,310,660 $73.00 $70.25 3.8%
2022 474,354 6,415,639 673,363 28,976 $31,867,229 $1,109,896 $67.18 $64.84 3.5%
2021 256,982 3,044,287 532,187 21,798 $28,286,746 $514,768 $110.07 $108.07 1.8%
2020 377,703 5,491,355 532,347 22,117 $22,536,132 $748,076 $59.67 $57.69 3.3%
2019 729,507 11,187,645 581,528 24,730 $19,319,510 $1,526,429 $26.48 $24.39 7.9%
2018 811,242 12,269,528 310,272 13,157 $23,184,423 $1,927,996 $28.58 $26.20 8.3%
2017 824,704 13,034,972 301,021 12,725 $21,750,211 $1,974,227 $26.37 $23.98 9.1%
2016 806,331 13,241,488 298,379 12,536 $23,076,368 $2,135,825 $28.62 $25.97 9.3%
2015 833,195 13,491,230 287,997 11,976 $14,795,764 $2,487,225 $17.76 $14.77 16.8%