Greater Lynchburg Transit Company

Bus at Greater Lynchburg Transit Company

Greater Lynchburg Transit Company carried 567,981 bus boardings in FY2024 at $13.78 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Lynchburg, VA
FY2024 boardings
568K
+12.9% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$13.78
-8.3% nationwide $8.24
Subsidy per ride
$12.84
-8.3% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
6.8%
-1.2% nationwide 11%
Passenger miles
2M
average trip 3.51 miles
Operating cost
$7.83M
Vehicles in service
15
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
8.47
67K 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 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, 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 567,981 1,995,184 67,023 $7,825,222 $13.78 $12.84 6.8% 15

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 Greater Lynchburg Transit Company reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 567,981 1,995,184 1,023,896 67,023 $7,825,222 $531,953 $13.78 $12.84 6.8%
2023 503,044 2,097,127 1,018,469 68,117 $7,561,455 $520,321 $15.03 $14.00 6.9%
2022 431,684 2,022,400 949,794 63,456 $6,940,053 $438,039 $16.08 $15.06 6.3%
2021 451,021 2,007,043 946,243 63,680 $6,082,344 $659,573 $13.49 $12.02 10.8%
2020 687,159 3,056,696 956,528 64,371 $6,151,716 $796,346 $8.95 $7.79 12.9%
2019 1,999,458 8,737,631 1,105,949 81,521 $7,225,340 $2,134,209 $3.61 $2.55 29.5%
2018 2,303,341 10,065,600 1,096,116 89,291 $7,423,753 $2,380,807 $3.22 $2.19 32.1%
2017 2,253,421 7,177,080 1,035,129 87,121 $7,265,388 $3,015,087 $3.22 $1.89 41.5%
2016 2,064,995 6,855,783 1,028,025 86,186 $6,656,044 $2,114,827 $3.22 $2.20 31.8%
2015 2,850,332 9,560,463 975,551 86,910 $6,576,559 $922,862 $2.31 $1.98 14%