Gardena GTrans

Demand Response at Gardena GTrans

Gardena GTrans carried 13,164 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $58.74 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Gardena, CA
FY2025 boardings
13.2K
+27.9% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$58.74
-14.7% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$58.11
-14.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
1.1%
+3.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
33.6K
average trip 2.56 miles
Operating cost
$773.2K
Vehicles in service
4
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.57
5.1K 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 13,164 33,635 5,121 $773,210 $58.74 $58.11 1.1% 4

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 Gardena GTrans reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 13,164 33,635 44,035 5,121 $773,210 $8,187 $58.74 $58.11 1.1%
2024 10,289 30,413 36,144 4,629 $708,572 $7,277 $68.87 $68.16 1%
2023 10,357 33,895 39,371 5,142 $638,134 $6,981 $61.61 $60.94 1.1%
2022 6,838 22,678 27,341 3,729 $612,625 $4,069 $89.59 $89.00 0.7%
2021 5,968 15,460 24,335 3,500 $596,416 — $99.94 — —
2020 16,949 59,447 49,555 7,009 $880,125 $9,306 $51.93 $51.38 1.1%
2019 22,567 78,741 63,942 8,982 $896,849 $11,364 $39.74 $39.24 1.3%
2018 23,443 75,118 65,443 9,162 $865,116 $12,859 $36.90 $36.35 1.5%
2017 24,586 77,894 68,319 9,392 $814,853 $12,204 $33.14 $32.65 1.5%
2016 23,529 83,054 65,321 9,404 $872,226 $12,890 $37.07 $36.52 1.5%
2015 26,700 90,003 72,207 9,520 $852,310 $14,548 $31.92 $31.38 1.7%