Craven Area Rural Transit System

Demand Response at Craven Area Rural Transit System

Craven Area Rural Transit System carried 45,388 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $28.00 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response New Bern, NC
FY2025 boardings
45.4K
-5.3% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$28.00
-12.4% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$27.34
-12.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.3%
+14.8% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.27M
Vehicles in service
14
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.34
19.4K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

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, 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 45,388 — 19,391 $1,270,641 $28.00 $27.34 2.3% 14

Full series

Every year Craven Area Rural Transit System reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 45,388 — 365,958 19,391 $1,270,641 $29,529 $28.00 $27.34 2.3%
2024 47,942 — 383,545 20,027 $1,531,345 $31,009 $31.94 $31.29 2%
2023 42,325 — 318,634 16,890 $1,353,196 $34,459 $31.97 $31.16 2.5%
2022 35,821 — 326,578 19,020 $1,024,024 $20,063 $28.59 $28.03 2%
2021 32,246 — 329,242 20,401 $1,127,469 $12,749 $34.96 $34.57 1.1%
2020 42,674 — 383,137 29,979 $937,928 $27,632 $21.98 $21.33 2.9%
2019 48,899 — 440,552 29,487 $1,060,914 $32,420 $21.70 $21.03 3.1%
2018 50,718 — 541,199 35,291 $1,067,380 $30,621 $21.05 $20.44 2.9%
2017 52,548 — 549,676 35,217 $1,016,100 $30,013 $19.34 $18.77 3%
2016 56,618 — 520,636 31,271 $893,121 $35,626 $15.77 $15.15 4%
2015 86,927 — 708,841 42,624 $1,121,368 $53,492 $12.90 $12.28 4.8%