Greenville Greenlink

Demand Response at Greenville Greenlink

Greenville Greenlink carried 16,687 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $77.97 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Greenville, SC
FY2024 boardings
16.7K
+7.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$77.97
+44.9% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$75.43
+47.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.3%
-36.3% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
76.3K
average trip 4.57 miles
Operating cost
$1.3M
Vehicles in service
7
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.45
11.5K 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 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, 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 16,687 76,305 11,539 $1,301,084 $77.97 $75.43 3.3% 7

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 Greenville Greenlink reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 16,687 76,305 144,155 11,539 $1,301,084 $42,416 $77.97 $75.43 3.3%
2023 15,538 71,313 137,860 12,622 $836,275 $42,798 $53.82 $51.07 5.1%
2022 11,500 68,572 98,235 10,118 $749,727 $31,320 $65.19 $62.47 4.2%
2021 7,467 39,110 66,932 6,429 $558,727 $20,256 $74.83 $72.11 3.6%
2020 7,957 48,647 81,360 6,623 $491,093 $21,195 $61.72 $59.05 4.3%
2019 9,455 52,513 92,644 7,211 $562,332 $26,994 $59.47 $56.62 4.8%
2018 10,868 70,906 93,000 8,013 $432,248 $31,074 $39.77 $36.91 7.2%
2017 10,528 68,647 93,326 7,478 $423,951 $27,690 $40.27 $37.64 6.5%
2016 7,936 60,076 82,458 6,074 $484,782 $23,808 $61.09 $58.09 4.9%
2015 8,015 60,712 77,837 5,814 $503,773 $23,295 $62.85 $59.95 4.6%