Crawford Area Transportation Authority

Demand Response at Crawford Area Transportation Authority

Crawford Area Transportation Authority carried 99,132 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $37.83 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Meadville, PA
FY2025 boardings
99.1K
+4.6% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$37.83
+25.2% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$24.50
+37.4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
35.2%
-14% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$3.75M
Vehicles in service
35
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.99
49.8K 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 99,132 — 49,842 $3,750,362 $37.83 $24.50 35.2% 35

Full series

Every year Crawford Area Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 99,132 — 704,814 49,842 $3,750,362 $1,321,400 $37.83 $24.50 35.2%
2024 94,757 — 563,249 39,330 $2,864,219 $1,174,049 $30.23 $17.84 41%
2023 69,601 — 472,116 29,674 $2,408,764 $1,083,520 $34.61 $19.04 45%
2022 60,587 — 398,665 23,714 $1,799,756 $896,439 $29.71 $14.91 49.8%
2021 53,321 — 356,678 21,507 $1,392,907 $802,461 $26.12 $11.07 57.6%
2020 73,087 — 483,794 28,149 $1,841,710 $1,107,612 $25.20 $10.04 60.1%
2019 80,804 — 456,687 31,139 $1,958,354 $1,339,954 $24.24 $7.65 68.4%
2018 97,008 — 434,275 30,296 $2,218,364 $478,367 $22.87 $17.94 21.6%
2017 91,372 — 572,803 32,819 $2,239,939 $60,960 $24.51 $23.85 2.7%
2016 55,786 — 226,657 13,432 $1,163,106 $73,722 $20.85 $19.53 6.3%
2015 53,133 — 215,965 12,557 $1,078,074 $83,532 $20.29 $18.72 7.7%