NTD ID 40272 · Reduced Asset Reporter

Civic Volunteer Organization of Barefoot Bay

Civic Volunteer Organization of Barefoot Bay carried 630 boardings in FY2022 at $17.81 per ride and — in subsidy per ride. Ten years of NTD data, by mode.

Barefoot Bay, FL Palm Bay--Melbourne, FL Demand Response
Also known as CVOBB
FY2022 boardings
630
+1.4% vs FY2021
Cost per ride
$17.81
+984.3% $19.09 in 2024 dollars
Subsidy per ride
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
fares average — per ride
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$11.2K
$15.27 per revenue hour
Rides per resident
0.06
service area 10K people
Rides per revenue hour
0.86
735 hours operated
Passengers aboard
average at any moment, passenger miles over vehicle miles
Average speed
6.73 mph
in revenue service, stops and traffic included
Cost per vehicle mile
$2.27
what running a mile costs, before anyone boards

What those two numbers mean

Passengers aboard is passenger miles divided by vehicle miles: how many people are on board on average, at any moment. It is the missing term in cost per ride. A service carrying twenty people per vehicle mile and one carrying half a person can spend the same on fuel and wages and arrive at wildly different costs per passenger.

Average speed is vehicle miles divided by vehicle hours, including every stop and every red light. It is the hidden term in cost per mile, because cost per mile is cost per hour divided by speed. A bus network slowing from 13 mph to 11 becomes a fifth more expensive per mile with no change in wages and no change in service.

Profile

Agency profile

As filed with the National Transit Database.

Contact

Legal name
Civic Volunteer Organization of Barefoot Bay
Address
625 Barefoot Blvd
Barefoot Bay, FL 32976

Organization

Organization type
Private-Non-Profit Corporation
Reporter type
Reduced Asset Reporter
Fiscal year ends
September 30, 2024
Reporting since
FY2021

Service area

Population served
10,000 over 10 sq mi
Density
1,000 people per sq mi
Urbanized area
Palm Bay--Melbourne, FL · 510.7K people
Vehicles at maximum service

Services operated

Each mode has its own page, with its own ridership, cost and safety.

Ridership

Ridership

Civic Volunteer Organization of Barefoot Bay reports annually. NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only. This agency reports annually, so its ridership appears in the yearly chart alongside.

Annual boardings

Ten-year series

Cost

Cost and subsidy

Dollar figures are shown as reported and again in current dollars.

Cost and subsidy per ride

As reported

In 2024 dollars

The same series with inflation removed

Why cost per ride moved

Indexed to FY2021 = 100

Cost per ride is the cost of an hour of service divided by the riders carried in that hour. It can only rise for two reasons: service got dearer to produce, or fewer people rode it.

Since FY2021 an hour of service costs +1000% more to run, while carrying +1.4% as many riders. Most of the rise in cost per ride is the service itself getting dearer.

Where the money goes

Operating cost by function

Who pays for it

Federal, state and local funding, 2021 to 2022

Operating and capital money together, in the dollars of each year. Fares are not in this file — FTA took them out of the funding series in 2022 — so "directly generated" here means advertising, concessions, park and ride and taxes the agency levies itself. The farebox is charted above.

Capital

Capital spending

What was spent on building, rebuilding and replacing, shown beside the cost of running the service rather than folded into it.

FTA publishes the capital files from 2022 onward, and this agency does not appear in them.

Peers

Compared with similar systems

11 agencies serve an urbanized area of similar size, carry a similar number of riders, and run demand response as their main service.

Cost per ride
$17.81
better than 73% of peers
Subsidy per ride
not enough peers to rank
Fare recovery
not enough peers to rank
Rides per resident
0.06
better than 75% of peers

Cost per ride against peers

This agency in blue, peer median dashed

Rides per resident against peers

How much the place uses what it has

Peer detail

Agency Urbanized area Population Boardings Rides / resident Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
Civic Volunteer Organization of Barefoot Bay this agency Palm Bay--Melbourne, FL 510.7K 630 0.06 $17.81
Alaska Non-UZA 359.3K 625 $35.11
Alaska Non-UZA 359.3K 677 $195.67 $191.38 2.2%
Utah Non-UZA 647.6K 980 $304.77 $303.88 0.3%
Alaska Non-UZA 359.3K 1.7K $35.12
Nevada Non-UZA 399.7K 1.9K $15.17
Round Lake Beach--McHenry--Grayslake, IL--WI 261.8K 1.4K 0.01 $7.24 $6.27 13.4%
Round Lake Beach--McHenry--Grayslake, IL--WI 261.8K 1.7K 0.06 $31.26 $28.94 7.4%
Alaska Non-UZA 359.3K 2.5K $99.32
Round Lake Beach--McHenry--Grayslake, IL--WI 261.8K 2K 0.18 $9.71 $8.70 10.4%
Barnstable Town, MA 303.3K 2.3K 0.01 $93.18
Peer median (11 agencies) 0.04 $35.12 $28.94 7.4%

By mode

By mode

Each service this agency runs, for FY2022. Directly operated and purchased service are summed.

Boardings by mode

Annual, stacked

Cost per ride by mode

FY2022

Mode detail, FY2022

Mode Service Boardings Passenger miles Revenue hours Operating cost Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
Demand Response Directly operated 630 735 $11,220 $17.81 Detail →

Safety

Safety

Collisions, fires, derailments and security events reported to NTD. Only complete years are shown.

Safety

Safety and security events are published in the monthly file, which covers full reporters only. This agency does not appear in it.

Fleet

Fleet, workforce and reliability

How old the vehicles are, how many people run them, and how far they get between breakdowns. NTD publishes all three from 2022 onward.

Revenue vehicles
1
FY2024
Average age
6 yrs
weighted across the fleet
Past useful life
0%
0 vehicles at or beyond FTA's benchmark
Miles between failures
all mechanical failures, revenue miles

How the fleet has aged, 2021 to 2024

Average vehicle age, weighted across every mode the agency runs

A rising line is not automatically bad and a falling one is not automatically good: a fleet gets younger the year an agency takes delivery, and older every year it does not. What the shape shows is whether replacement is steady or comes in bursts. The table below says how many vehicles are actually past the life FTA expects of them.

Vehicles, and how many are accessible

Active revenue vehicles against those meeting the ADA standard

Fleet age

FTA's default useful life benchmark for each class, from the Transit Asset Management rule

Vehicle type Count Average age FTA benchmark Past FTA benchmark Past own benchmark
Van 1 6 yrs 8 yrs
0%

All years

Full annual series

Every year this agency reported, as published.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2022 630 4,945 735 $11,220 $17.81
2021 621 3,957 735 $1,020 $1.64