Fairfield and Suisun Transit

Commuter Bus at Fairfield and Suisun Transit

Fairfield and Suisun Transit carried 7,153 commuter bus boardings in FY2023 at $82.52 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Commuter Bus Fairfield, CA
FY2023 boardings
7.2K
-93% vs FY2022
Cost per ride
$82.52
+90% nationwide $23.65
Subsidy per ride
$76.60
+93.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
7.2%
-19.3% nationwide 25.9%
Passenger miles
175.7K
average trip 24.56 miles
Operating cost
$590.3K
Vehicles in service
8
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.92
1.8K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2022.

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 commuter 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, FY2023

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 7,153 175,678 1,827 $590,270 $82.52 $76.60 7.2% 8

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
2023 7,153 175,678 58,495 1,827 $590,270 $42,378 $82.52 $76.60 7.2%
2022 102,687 2,419,124 807,609 24,303 $4,458,954 $396,510 $43.42 $39.56 8.9%
2021 85,493 2,014,065 677,254 20,782 $4,026,381 $333,434 $47.10 $43.20 8.3%
2020 268,845 5,116,120 989,995 30,246 $4,528,812 $994,224 $16.85 $13.15 22%
2019 356,949 6,792,739 1,161,788 35,600 $5,059,464 $1,539,183 $14.17 $9.86 30.4%
2018 393,719 7,492,473 1,009,226 30,748 $3,940,518 $1,531,781 $10.01 $6.12 38.9%
2017 409,903 8,362,021 1,020,540 31,006 $3,620,947 $1,590,669 $8.83 $4.95 43.9%
2016 400,152 7,146,715 963,798 28,988 $3,191,969 $1,512,367 $7.98 $4.20 47.4%
2015 396,704 7,083,818 915,233 27,581 $3,198,967 $1,478,393 $8.06 $4.34 46.2%