Champaign-County Area Rural Transit System

Bus at Champaign-County Area Rural Transit System

Champaign-County Area Rural Transit System carried 14,815 bus boardings in FY2025 at $32.56 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Urbana, IL
FY2025 boardings
14.8K
-1.8% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$32.56
+27.6% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$31.12
+27.8% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
4.4%
-3.6% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$482.4K
Vehicles in service
6
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.04
7.3K 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 bus 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 — — — — — — — —
Purchased transportation 14,815 — 7,264 $482,373 $32.56 $31.12 4.4% 6

Full series

Every year Champaign-County Area Rural Transit System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 14,815 — 127,709 7,264 $482,373 $21,347 $32.56 $31.12 4.4%
2024 15,084 — 117,840 7,373 $385,036 $17,667 $25.53 $24.35 4.6%
2023 16,186 — 121,419 6,213 $387,710 $17,847 $23.95 $22.85 4.6%
2022 17,881 — 115,929 6,024 $360,826 $17,432 $20.18 $19.20 4.8%
2021 27,682 — 132,763 6,915 $269,897 — $9.75 — —
2020 21,219 — 121,979 6,150 $327,037 $20,789 $15.41 $14.43 6.4%
2019 17,202 — 127,294 6,388 $380,629 $26,590 $22.13 $20.58 7%
2018 — — — — — — — — —
2017 — — — — — — — — —
2016 — — — — — — — — —
2015 — — — — — — — — —