Chief Executive Officer

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Chief Executive Officer carried 11,308,431 bus boardings in FY2024 at $8.14 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Tampa, FL
FY2024 boardings
11.3M
+2.2% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$8.14
+7.7% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$7.38
+7.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
9.4%
-0.2% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
50.5M
average trip 4.47 miles
Operating cost
$92M
Vehicles in service
104
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
21.4
528.4K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 2026.

This year against the last five

Same months on one axis, so seasonality does not read as a trend

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, 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 11,308,431 50,538,313 528,444 $92,045,074 $8.14 $7.38 9.4% 104

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Chief Executive Officer reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 11,308,431 50,538,313 6,584,155 528,444 $92,045,074 $8,632,327 $8.14 $7.38 9.4%
2023 11,062,383 49,513,978 6,582,991 529,706 $83,597,967 $7,854,261 $7.56 $6.85 9.4%
2022 9,644,403 49,254,823 6,544,375 535,992 $88,776,977 $7,302,433 $9.21 $8.45 8.2%
2021 9,570,801 40,146,758 7,187,617 584,719 $82,423,803 $5,746,646 $8.61 $8.01 7%
2020 8,306,062 50,056,896 6,559,426 536,222 $64,511,424 $8,265,610 $7.77 $6.77 12.8%
2019 12,032,360 71,147,498 8,199,395 662,200 $74,513,118 $11,483,278 $6.19 $5.24 15.4%
2018 11,586,334 69,745,753 7,727,207 631,676 $71,740,564 $11,564,189 $6.19 $5.19 16.1%
2017 12,901,178 60,976,285 8,323,695 655,997 $72,349,970 $13,633,263 $5.61 $4.55 18.8%
2016 14,081,260 76,153,397 8,385,009 661,139 $67,985,779 $13,984,171 $4.83 $3.83 20.6%
2015 15,003,289 80,670,395 8,078,544 646,087 $65,926,063 $15,484,564 $4.39 $3.36 23.5%