Fairfield and Suisun Transit

Bus at Fairfield and Suisun Transit

Fairfield and Suisun Transit (FAST Transit) carried 181,586 bus boardings in FY2025 at $37.99 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Fairfield, CA
FY2025 boardings
181.6K
-2.2% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$37.99
+0.3% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$36.61
+1.5% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.6%
-23.5% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
689.9K
average trip 3.8 miles
Operating cost
$6.9M
Vehicles in service
12
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
7.42
24.5K 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 181,586 689,930 24,471 $6,899,280 $37.99 $36.61 3.6% 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 Fairfield and Suisun Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 181,586 689,930 302,862 24,471 $6,899,280 $251,407 $37.99 $36.61 3.6%
2024 185,764 683,676 328,177 26,150 $7,035,993 $335,344 $37.88 $36.07 4.8%
2023 254,326 815,889 473,294 35,905 $8,027,285 $383,272 $31.56 $30.06 4.8%
2022 253,191 724,126 509,475 38,920 $6,277,221 $310,039 $24.79 $23.57 4.9%
2021 218,615 625,891 541,311 41,060 $6,818,654 $87,814 $31.19 $30.79 1.3%
2020 395,774 894,449 515,740 38,379 $5,048,444 $387,701 $12.76 $11.78 7.7%
2019 526,175 1,189,158 692,472 51,088 $5,322,878 $603,760 $10.12 $8.97 11.3%
2018 570,239 1,288,740 698,527 52,119 $5,974,701 $557,857 $10.48 $9.50 9.3%
2017 582,713 1,846,035 721,058 53,177 $5,431,420 $601,781 $9.32 $8.29 11.1%
2016 627,274 1,656,003 723,562 53,225 $5,207,949 $649,363 $8.30 $7.27 12.5%
2015 673,950 1,779,228 719,737 52,404 $5,298,832 $697,792 $7.86 $6.83 13.2%