KY River Foothills Development Council, Inc.

Bus at KY River Foothills Development Council, Inc.

KY River Foothills Development Council, Inc. carried 64,522 bus boardings in FY2025 at $13.37 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Richmond, KY
FY2025 boardings
64.5K
-4.4% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$13.37
+5.1% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$13.18
+4.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
1.4%
+19.5% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$862.7K
Vehicles in service
8
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.27
15.1K hours operated

Ridership

This service reports annually.

Monthly boardings

NTD publishes monthly figures for full reporters only, so this service has annual data alone.

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, 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 64,522 — 15,118 $862,704 $13.37 $13.18 1.4% 8

Full series

Every year KY River Foothills Development Council, Inc. reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 64,522 — 151,577 15,118 $862,704 $12,284 $13.37 $13.18 1.4%
2024 67,482 — 145,178 20,098 $858,353 $10,229 $12.72 $12.57 1.2%
2023 64,556 — 160,094 19,147 $807,493 $9,275 $12.51 $12.36 1.1%
2022 49,483 — 161,070 17,105 $740,894 $10,527 $14.97 $14.76 1.4%
2021 23,833 — 158,356 17,693 $664,106 $5,175 $27.86 $27.65 0.8%
2020 83,030 — 127,064 16,152 $541,851 $7,259 $6.53 $6.44 1.3%
2019 114,632 — 171,127 19,283 $570,037 $13,352 $4.97 $4.86 2.3%
2018 108,472 — 165,706 16,928 $424,662 $13,576 $3.91 $3.79 3.2%
2017 105,017 — 141,684 15,678 $497,541 $10,455 $4.74 $4.64 2.1%
2016 90,802 — 121,768 12,060 $282,932 $10,134 $3.12 $3.00 3.6%
2015 91,220 — 119,675 12,790 $360,263 $13,013 $3.95 $3.81 3.6%