El Paso Transportation Authority

Vanpool at El Paso Transportation Authority

El Paso Transportation Authority carried 403,679 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $3.46 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool El Paso, TX
FY2025 boardings
403.7K
+6% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$3.46
-25.3% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$-1.61
-18% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
146.6%
+13.2% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
22.7M
average trip 56.21 miles
Operating cost
$1.4M
Vehicles in service
159
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.13
97.8K 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 vanpool 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
Purchased transportation 403,679 22,691,733 97,803 $1,395,126 $3.46 $-1.61 146.6% 159

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 El Paso Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 403,679 22,691,733 5,282,022 97,803 $1,395,126 $2,045,177 $3.46 $-1.61 146.6%
2024 380,708 — 4,680,004 87,107 $1,762,032 $2,281,526 $4.63 $-1.36 129.5%
2023 343,748 — 4,094,323 75,953 $1,688,461 $1,366,496 $4.91 $0.94 80.9%
2022 275,846 — 3,464,237 62,531 $1,310,753 $1,054,019 $4.75 $0.93 80.4%
2021 236,295 — 3,157,542 54,406 $743,416 $851,334 $3.15 $-0.46 114.5%
2020 237,756 — 3,332,246 59,740 $717,500 $894,565 $3.02 $-0.74 124.7%
2019 235,731 — 3,248,711 56,921 $579,524 $741,012 $2.46 $-0.69 127.9%
2018 185,687 — 2,798,110 46,732 $428,946 $537,455 $2.31 $-0.58 125.3%
2017 184,757 — 2,681,797 45,534 $332,679 $491,580 $1.80 $-0.86 147.8%
2016 96,931 — 1,300,877 22,964 $218,511 $431,224 $2.25 $-2.19 197.3%
2015 159,194 — 1,363,502 25,062 $2,383,024 $887,219 $14.97 $9.40 37.2%