Coralville Transit System

Bus at Coralville Transit System

Coralville Transit System carried 341,098 bus boardings in FY2025 at $5.43 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Coralville, IA
FY2025 boardings
341.1K
+0.7% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$5.43
+6.1% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$4.28
+5.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
21.2%
+0.7% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
1.12M
average trip 3.29 miles
Operating cost
$1.85M
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
20.71
16.5K 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 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, 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 341,098 1,122,291 16,470 $1,851,395 $5.43 $4.28 21.2% 7

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 Coralville Transit System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 341,098 1,122,291 200,132 16,470 $1,851,395 $392,484 $5.43 $4.28 21.2%
2024 338,871 1,115,299 195,792 16,425 $1,732,797 $364,757 $5.11 $4.04 21.1%
2023 316,685 1,043,727 196,431 16,452 $1,735,085 $278,826 $5.48 $4.60 16.1%
2022 268,006 881,235 196,951 16,476 $1,610,077 $220,579 $6.01 $5.18 13.7%
2021 191,560 629,632 189,727 15,822 $1,497,097 $162,272 $7.82 $6.97 10.8%
2020 340,726 1,120,585 183,977 15,207 $1,505,626 $317,591 $4.42 $3.49 21.1%
2019 443,217 1,457,628 195,361 16,170 $1,486,349 $395,151 $3.35 $2.46 26.6%
2018 464,668 1,527,046 198,732 16,430 $1,434,608 $398,921 $3.09 $2.23 27.8%
2017 469,982 1,545,320 199,528 16,462 $1,365,624 $400,696 $2.91 $2.05 29.3%
2016 537,777 1,887,220 201,155 16,551 $1,311,990 $440,942 $2.44 $1.62 33.6%
2015 585,973 2,050,869 182,791 15,424 $1,332,699 $521,555 $2.27 $1.38 39.1%