Emerald Coast Rider

Bus at Emerald Coast Rider

Emerald Coast Rider carried 42,976 bus boardings in FY2025 at $57.28 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Crestview, FL
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FY2025 boardings
43K
-25.6% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$57.28
+52.1% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$55.83
+52.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.5%
-16.4% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
298.4K
average trip 6.94 miles
Operating cost
$2.46M
Vehicles in service
10
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.4
30.7K 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 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, 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 42,976 298,413 30,734 $2,461,533 $57.28 $55.83 2.5% 10

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 Emerald Coast Rider reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 42,976 298,413 400,575 30,734 $2,461,533 $62,094 $57.28 $55.83 2.5%
2024 57,775 298,350 381,823 30,045 $2,175,556 $65,637 $37.66 $36.52 3%
2023 57,003 291,338 384,815 29,809 $2,057,439 $59,929 $36.09 $35.04 2.9%
2022 61,913 316,738 377,166 29,207 $1,561,854 $59,030 $25.23 $24.27 3.8%
2021 53,071 308,342 368,176 28,017 $1,143,562 $56,730 $21.55 $20.48 5%
2020 58,476 339,352 340,831 26,678 $1,166,495 $59,579 $19.95 $18.93 5.1%
2019 99,456 0 349,874 27,442 $1,350,163 $79,897 $13.58 $12.77 5.9%
2018 119,658 0 342,113 27,586 $1,496,638 $118,549 $12.51 $11.52 7.9%
2017 123,476 555,642 369,052 28,070 $1,418,580 $112,100 $11.49 $10.58 7.9%
2016 135,719 611,223 396,416 29,160 $1,320,887 $114,733 $9.73 $8.89 8.7%
2015 139,389 627,251 377,468 27,809 $1,049,383 $131,173 $7.53 $6.59 12.5%