Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority

Bus at Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority

Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority carried 18,204 bus boardings in FY2024 at $33.28 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Sault Sainte Marie, MI
FY2024 boardings
18.2K
+9.8% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$33.28
+8.6% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$30.98
+11.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
6.9%
-28.6% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$605.9K
Vehicles in service
6
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.24
8.1K 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 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, 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 18,204 8,122 $605,875 $33.28 $30.98 6.9% 6

Full series

Every year Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 18,204 266,115 8,122 $605,875 $41,905 $33.28 $30.98 6.9%
2023 16,582 220,948 8,051 $508,360 $49,267 $30.66 $27.69 9.7%
2022 17,063 220,000 8,760 $538,856 $150,448 $31.58 $22.76 27.9%
2021 26,406 235,323 10,755 $519,350 $116,533 $19.67 $15.25 22.4%
2020 29,968 213,098 10,061 $514,966 $97,613 $17.18 $13.93 19%
2019 27,480 191,645 8,370 $426,936 $119,161 $15.54 $11.20 27.9%
2018 34,942 200,641 10,094 $400,413 $117,647 $11.46 $8.09 29.4%
2017 37,414 208,046 10,123 $386,693 $116,205 $10.34 $7.23 30.1%
2016 12,702 93,960 4,535 $135,433 $44,533 $10.66 $7.16 32.9%