Kern Regional Transit

Demand Response at Kern Regional Transit

Kern Regional Transit carried 40,437 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $70.18 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Bakersfield, CA
← All of Kern Regional Transit
FY2024 boardings
40.4K
-33.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$70.18
-13.2% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$69.46
-13.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
1%
-11.5% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
162.6K
average trip 4.02 miles
Operating cost
$2.84M
Vehicles in service
16
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.39
29.1K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 2024.

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
Purchased transportation 40,437 162,598 29,125 $2,837,770 $70.18 $69.46 1% 16

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Miles between failures

Revenue miles divided by mechanical failures. Higher is better.

Full series

Every year Kern Regional Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 40,437 162,598 161,286 29,125 $2,837,770 $28,888 $70.18 $69.46 1%
2023 60,771 — 266,810 36,527 $4,911,665 $56,479 $80.82 $79.89 1.1%
2022 64,918 — 264,953 28,928 $4,677,388 $68,780 $72.05 $70.99 1.5%
2021 63,494 — 302,308 33,750 $3,978,552 $71,173 $62.66 $61.54 1.8%
2020 81,631 — 290,407 35,803 $2,703,532 $100,202 $33.12 $31.89 3.7%
2019 85,257 — 331,815 35,481 $3,908,449 $77,129 $45.84 $44.94 2%
2018 89,028 — 349,645 36,983 $3,866,810 $156,561 $43.43 $41.68 4%
2017 82,569 — 375,368 37,202 $1,370,388 $92,041 $16.60 $15.48 6.7%
2016 94,646 — 337,224 31,763 $1,483,075 $98,764 $15.67 $14.63 6.7%
2015 107,573 — 388,538 31,316 $2,285,578 $108,070 $21.25 $20.24 4.7%