Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation

Demand Response at Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation

Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation carried 24,797 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $91.45 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Dover, NH
FY2024 boardings
24.8K
+7.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$91.45
+2.8% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$86.74
+2.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
5.1%
+12.8% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
188.8K
average trip 7.62 miles
Operating cost
$2.27M
Vehicles in service
13
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.82
13.6K 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 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, 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 24,797 188,832 13,592 $2,267,568 $91.45 $86.74 5.1% 13

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 Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 24,797 188,832 238,138 13,592 $2,267,568 $116,670 $91.45 $86.74 5.1%
2023 23,006 163,566 208,540 12,102 $2,046,248 $93,375 $88.94 $84.89 4.6%
2022 19,572 120,455 163,260 10,166 $1,849,909 $87,070 $94.52 $90.07 4.7%
2021 15,992 96,601 150,550 9,779 $1,404,091 $70,849 $87.80 $83.37 5%
2020 18,282 106,463 163,055 10,651 $1,654,580 $80,610 $90.50 $86.09 4.9%
2019 24,502 151,149 215,436 14,500 $1,723,641 $101,191 $70.35 $66.22 5.9%
2018 18,472 117,155 189,073 12,400 $1,487,087 $93,112 $80.50 $75.46 6.3%
2017 18,042 107,267 184,737 14,443 $1,341,907 $102,799 $74.38 $68.68 7.7%
2016 16,566 93,530 189,309 14,228 $1,207,468 $58,664 $72.89 $69.35 4.9%
2015 15,740 85,658 172,040 12,731 $945,387 $52,665 $60.06 $56.72 5.6%