Elizabethtown TACK

Demand Response at Elizabethtown TACK

Elizabethtown TACK carried 89,949 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $68.34 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Elizabethtown, KY
FY2025 boardings
89.9K
-0.7% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$68.34
+46.3% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$40.66
+181.4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
40.5%
-41.4% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
1.49M
average trip 16.52 miles
Operating cost
$6.15M
Vehicles in service
34
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.27
70.8K 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 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 89,949 1,486,259 70,788 $6,146,701 $68.34 $40.66 40.5% 34

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 Elizabethtown TACK reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 89,949 1,486,259 1,316,776 70,788 $6,146,701 $2,489,181 $68.34 $40.66 40.5%
2024 90,602 1,494,433 1,371,624 71,348 $4,232,900 $2,923,854 $46.72 $14.45 69.1%
2023 89,196 1,428,015 1,358,044 74,855 $3,703,040 $2,483,257 $41.52 $13.68 67.1%
2022 93,175 1,345,604 1,236,519 64,751 $3,067,105 $2,564,527 $32.92 $5.39 83.6%
2021 70,559 910,696 1,091,460 58,570 $3,109,786 $1,965,764 $44.07 $16.21 63.2%
2020 106,760 1,906,197 1,439,760 74,558 $3,267,831 $1,615,551 $30.61 $15.48 49.4%
2019 128,125 1,846,649 1,818,698 91,557 $3,236,852 $2,015,051 $25.26 $9.54 62.3%
2018 112,548 1,616,724 1,514,458 85,326 $3,239,958 $1,990,699 $28.79 $11.10 61.4%
2017 83,303 1,070,232 1,068,962 61,329 $3,205,982 $2,145,851 $38.49 $12.73 66.9%
2016 81,782 864,254 1,041,204 59,815 $2,914,472 $1,843,469 $35.64 $13.10 63.3%
2015 79,373 818,816 1,035,065 63,323 $2,195,273 $40,941 $27.66 $27.14 1.9%