Greenway Public Transportation

Demand Response at Greenway Public Transportation

Greenway Public Transportation carried 66,250 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $63.37 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Newton, NC
FY2025 boardings
66.3K
+4.2% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$63.37
+4.9% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$62.68
+5.4% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
1.1%
-31% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
490.8K
average trip 7.41 miles
Operating cost
$4.2M
Vehicles in service
38
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.68
39.5K 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 66,250 490,813 39,450 $4,198,195 $63.37 $62.68 1.1% 38

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 Greenway Public Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 66,250 490,813 590,475 39,450 $4,198,195 $45,754 $63.37 $62.68 1.1%
2024 63,555 861,620 575,882 37,353 $3,838,328 $60,630 $60.39 $59.44 1.6%
2023 63,473 831,368 565,727 34,228 $3,822,703 $60,491 $60.23 $59.27 1.6%
2022 58,704 712,829 523,793 31,023 $3,191,510 $53,353 $54.37 $53.46 1.7%
2021 41,914 542,328 431,116 25,837 $2,723,714 $25 $64.98 $64.98 0%
2020 73,166 914,350 638,950 37,678 $3,295,044 $834,439 $45.04 $33.63 25.3%
2019 103,773 966,149 900,314 52,570 $3,419,119 $83,903 $32.95 $32.14 2.5%
2018 110,147 978,703 958,403 51,390 $3,202,036 $98,240 $29.07 $28.18 3.1%
2017 105,986 908,777 887,178 47,168 $2,617,454 $90,393 $24.70 $23.84 3.5%
2016 97,633 997,114 838,894 45,361 $2,508,378 $71,366 $25.69 $24.96 2.8%
2015 100,198 1,072,184 779,569 51,991 $2,685,338 $83,052 $26.80 $25.97 3.1%