Evansville METS

Demand Response at Evansville METS

Evansville METS carried 27,298 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $77.26 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Evansville, IN
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FY2024 boardings
27.3K
-6.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$77.26
+27.1% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$75.45
+43.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.3%
-82.8% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
159.6K
average trip 5.85 miles
Operating cost
$2.11M
Vehicles in service
12
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.54
17.7K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 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, 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 27,298 159,614 17,714 $2,108,982 $77.26 $75.45 2.3% 12

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 Evansville METS reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 27,298 159,614 199,143 17,714 $2,108,982 $49,320 $77.26 $75.45 2.3%
2023 29,185 187,706 203,320 15,410 $1,774,658 $241,142 $60.81 $52.54 13.6%
2022 37,116 226,950 211,873 17,509 $1,988,182 $407,812 $53.57 $42.58 20.5%
2021 35,991 222,632 212,422 17,772 $1,846,445 $359,079 $51.30 $41.33 19.4%
2020 36,844 229,907 208,640 19,252 $1,841,125 $272,048 $49.97 $42.59 14.8%
2019 63,658 397,557 352,741 30,148 $1,968,441 $331,609 $30.92 $25.71 16.8%
2018 65,126 406,728 351,881 30,783 $1,935,073 $342,502 $29.71 $24.45 17.7%
2017 67,375 421,707 354,618 30,638 $2,080,658 $405,087 $30.88 $24.87 19.5%
2016 53,964 407,122 344,939 31,874 $1,831,145 $386,041 $33.93 $26.78 21.1%
2015 51,416 375,524 326,393 31,392 $2,007,662 $410,377 $39.05 $31.07 20.4%