Go COMO

Bus at Go COMO

Go COMO carried 667,839 bus boardings in FY2025 at $7.73 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Columbia, MO
FY2025 boardings
667.8K
+7.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$7.73
+3.9% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$6.36
+2.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
17.7%
+5% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
1.78M
average trip 2.67 miles
Operating cost
$5.16M
Vehicles in service
10
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
36.58
18.3K 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
Directly operated 667,839 1,783,230 18,257 $5,162,137 $7.73 $6.36 17.7% 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 Go COMO reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 667,839 1,783,230 228,000 18,257 $5,162,137 $913,208 $7.73 $6.36 17.7%
2024 621,662 1,639,594 227,317 19,539 $4,624,807 $779,328 $7.44 $6.19 16.9%
2023 854,411 2,136,028 221,864 19,995 $3,845,835 $826,757 $4.50 $3.53 21.5%
2022 1,043,315 2,606,553 405,631 36,615 $4,242,348 $1,106,114 $4.07 $3.01 26.1%
2021 500,287 1,380,651 305,287 22,663 $3,820,042 $837,494 $7.64 $5.96 21.9%
2020 448,364 1,236,724 364,228 26,855 $4,797,065 $1,055,673 $10.70 $8.34 22%
2019 1,055,726 2,907,108 611,718 60,663 $5,648,463 $1,393,034 $5.35 $4.03 24.7%
2018 1,252,788 3,078,604 749,135 75,684 $5,884,529 $1,443,516 $4.70 $3.54 24.5%
2017 1,516,367 3,728,732 840,157 81,298 $6,186,238 $1,508,501 $4.08 $3.08 24.4%
2016 1,300,298 3,473,995 808,648 80,249 $5,646,074 $1,510,908 $4.34 $3.18 26.8%
2015 1,642,520 4,652,672 807,384 78,364 $5,660,530 $1,657,084 $3.45 $2.44 29.3%