Coast Transit Authority

Vanpool at Coast Transit Authority

Coast Transit Authority carried 70,780 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $7.01 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Gulfport, MS
FY2025 boardings
70.8K
-4.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$7.01
+0.2% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$0.74
-30.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
89.4%
+5.5% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
3.87M
average trip 54.72 miles
Operating cost
$496.5K
Vehicles in service
35
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
5
14.2K 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 vanpool 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
Purchased transportation 70,780 3,873,089 14,151 $496,476 $7.01 $0.74 89.4% 35

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 Coast Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 70,780 3,873,089 764,661 14,151 $496,476 $443,988 $7.01 $0.74 89.4%
2024 74,052 3,985,931 763,019 13,957 $518,565 $439,498 $7.00 $1.07 84.8%
2023 76,270 4,025,269 821,104 15,392 $491,625 $447,354 $6.45 $0.58 91%
2022 61,505 3,734,997 730,269 13,592 $469,580 $405,732 $7.63 $1.04 86.4%
2021 43,469 2,423,668 442,267 8,382 $312,035 $262,262 $7.18 $1.15 84%
2020 61,257 3,045,739 494,515 9,896 $425,528 $379,361 $6.95 $0.75 89.2%
2019 103,552 4,661,207 686,133 14,231 $458,218 $513,018 $4.43 $-0.53 112%
2018 99,176 4,275,534 637,416 13,037 $423,108 $477,573 $4.27 $-0.55 112.9%
2017 110,980 5,420,542 748,765 14,380 $496,929 $439,636 $4.48 $0.52 88.5%
2016 135,846 7,035,698 911,741 17,034 $518,284 $481,631 $3.82 $0.27 92.9%
2015 151,927 7,285,159 981,933 18,271 $370,571 $131,186 $2.44 $1.58 35.4%