Coach USA

Bus at Coach USA

Coach USA carried 1,692,482 bus boardings in FY2023 at $3.33 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Elizabeth, NJ
FY2023 boardings
1.69M
-36.8% vs FY2022
Cost per ride
$3.33
+29.2% nationwide $8.45
Subsidy per ride
$1.46
+95.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
56.1%
-20.9% nationwide 11.2%
Passenger miles
4.06M
average trip 2.4 miles
Operating cost
$5.63M
Vehicles in service
34
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
31.55
53.7K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through October 2023.

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, FY2023

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 1,692,482 4,056,066 53,651 $5,633,386 $3.33 $1.46 56.1% 34

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 Coach USA reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2023 1,692,482 4,056,066 488,342 53,651 $5,633,386 $3,159,283 $3.33 $1.46 56.1%
2022 2,678,767 6,578,247 758,117 82,670 $6,902,049 $4,894,714 $2.58 $0.75 70.9%
2021 2,847,996 7,006,850 815,381 87,465 $6,312,239 $5,132,487 $2.22 $0.41 81.3%
2020 3,235,304 7,971,789 938,540 101,633 $7,800,595 $7,888,935 $2.41 $-0.03 101.1%
2019 6,671,294 16,438,723 1,379,445 159,556 $11,288,274 $12,930,832 $1.69 $-0.25 114.6%
2018 6,810,464 16,781,260 1,375,845 159,169 $12,295,363 $12,294,675 $1.81 $0.00 100%
2017 7,309,929 18,022,324 1,454,730 163,546 $13,376,816 $13,369,646 $1.83 $0.00 99.9%
2016 8,012,377 19,498,647 1,582,717 171,232 $13,726,816 $14,514,562 $1.71 $-0.10 105.7%
2015 9,186,933 0 1,694,877 182,089 $13,887,570 $15,552,531 $1.51 $-0.18 112%