City of Rome Transit Department

Demand Response at City of Rome Transit Department

City of Rome Transit Department carried 20,429 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $45.76 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Rome, GA
← All of City of Rome Transit Department
FY2025 boardings
20.4K
-13.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$45.76
+25.2% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$35.69
+31.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
22%
-14% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
127.7K
average trip 6.25 miles
Operating cost
$934.8K
Vehicles in service
6
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.37
8.6K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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 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 20,429 127,673 8,611 $934,844 $45.76 $35.69 22% 6

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 City of Rome Transit Department reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 20,429 127,673 85,196 8,611 $934,844 $205,764 $45.76 $35.69 22%
2024 23,591 113,795 102,493 8,845 $862,096 $220,572 $36.54 $27.19 25.6%
2023 21,786 102,910 95,311 8,467 $906,640 $279,532 $41.62 $28.78 30.8%
2022 20,921 101,572 100,074 8,821 $945,640 $231,855 $45.20 $34.12 24.5%
2021 20,419 98,215 108,818 8,451 $999,532 $125,279 $48.95 $42.82 12.5%
2020 15,076 85,101 75,646 9,304 $461,521 $42,527 $30.61 $27.79 9.2%
2019 23,767 123,927 122,107 9,744 $359,605 $140,392 $15.13 $9.22 39%
2018 23,556 118,994 117,194 10,653 $399,440 $137,949 $16.96 $11.10 34.5%
2017 23,571 109,323 106,802 8,883 $326,186 $53,035 $13.84 $11.59 16.3%
2016 25,528 120,017 117,256 9,596 $346,681 $57,438 $13.58 $11.33 16.6%
2015 25,537 119,244 121,523 9,925 $353,592 $57,458 $13.85 $11.60 16.2%