Education and Training Connection

Demand Response at Education and Training Connection

Education and Training Connection carried 64,440 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $59.04 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Midland, MI
FY2024 boardings
64.4K
+2.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$59.04
+26.8% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$56.58
+29.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
4.2%
-30% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$3.8M
Vehicles in service
23
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.41
45.6K 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, 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 64,440 45,579 $3,804,328 $59.04 $56.58 4.2% 23

Full series

Every year Education and Training Connection reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 64,440 1,048,777 45,579 $3,804,328 $158,091 $59.04 $56.58 4.2%
2023 62,908 954,068 39,983 $2,930,010 $173,953 $46.58 $43.81 5.9%
2022 53,825 906,250 39,326 $2,619,721 $130,983 $48.67 $46.24 5%
2021 42,827 785,688 33,996 $2,526,300 $100,975 $58.99 $56.63 4%
2020 51,241 835,942 34,541 $2,319,363 $129,770 $45.26 $42.73 5.6%
2019 76,996 1,102,882 47,141 $2,624,561 $187,905 $34.09 $31.65 7.2%
2018 77,459 1,075,725 46,745 $2,559,767 $44,351 $33.05 $32.47 1.7%
2017 74,124 1,035,790 45,998 $2,641,269 $220,510 $35.63 $32.66 8.3%
2016 76,331 1,052,122 48,723 $2,415,686 $209,175 $31.65 $28.91 8.7%
2015 79,812 1,090,041 51,116 $2,480,890 $211,653 $31.08 $28.43 8.5%