GRITS Transportation

Demand Response at GRITS Transportation

GRITS Transportation carried 149,912 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $44.05 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Owensboro, KY
FY2025 boardings
149.9K
vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$44.05
nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$1.19
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
97.3%
nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$6.6M
Vehicles in service
43
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.27
118K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through June 2023.

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 149,912 — 118,024 $6,603,984 $44.05 $1.19 97.3% 43

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 GRITS Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 149,912 — 1,734,980 118,024 $6,603,984 $6,426,056 $44.05 $1.19 97.3%
2024 — — — — — — — — —
2023 132,537 2,512,446 1,492,605 108,158 $5,579,455 $5,864,706 $42.10 $-2.15 105.1%
2022 113,791 1,655,486 1,211,559 92,236 $4,662,740 $4,537,923 $40.98 $1.10 97.3%
2021 86,876 1,120,581 1,052,672 77,206 $3,795,951 $4,580,949 $43.69 $-9.04 120.7%
2020 123,863 2,028,050 1,242,856 89,794 $4,115,620 $3,952,845 $33.23 $1.31 96%
2019 151,344 1,603,139 1,151,779 90,484 $4,716,279 $244,786 $31.16 $29.55 5.2%
2018 190,731 1,926,638 1,980,604 197,534 $5,165,795 $214,972 $27.08 $25.96 4.2%
2017 211,269 1,988,410 2,118,438 190,407 $5,120,373 $142,054 $24.24 $23.56 2.8%
2016 164,273 0 2,086,562 187,911 $4,930,004 $195,041 $30.01 $28.82 4%
2015 199,202 — 1,883,689 182,944 $4,896,063 $217,685 $24.58 $23.49 4.4%