Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc.

Commuter Bus at Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc.

Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc. carried 774,656 commuter bus boardings in FY2024 at $16.38 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Commuter Bus Dover, NJ
← All of Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc.
FY2024 boardings
774.7K
+4.4% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$16.38
+0.5% nationwide $24.52
Subsidy per ride
$3.85
-25.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
76.5%
+11.7% nationwide 25.3%
Passenger miles
25.9M
average trip 33.44 miles
Operating cost
$12.7M
Vehicles in service
40
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
10.91
71K 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 commuter 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, 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 774,656 25,903,998 70,981 $12,689,362 $16.38 $3.85 76.5% 40

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 Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc. reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 774,656 25,903,998 1,052,455 70,981 $12,689,362 $9,709,895 $16.38 $3.85 76.5%
2023 742,278 25,589,974 1,055,587 71,603 $12,102,937 $8,289,177 $16.31 $5.14 68.5%
2022 565,361 19,425,917 914,521 62,001 $10,656,130 $6,213,811 $18.85 $7.86 58.3%
2021 270,478 9,179,645 536,582 27,136 $7,510,950 $2,828,113 $27.77 $17.31 37.7%
2020 384,265 13,203,423 623,201 34,762 $10,002,602 $3,988,183 $26.03 $15.65 39.9%
2019 1,609,866 54,735,444 2,244,349 128,252 $20,631,871 $16,378,526 $12.82 $2.64 79.4%
2018 1,624,066 52,870,209 2,238,372 128,016 $19,467,881 $16,947,549 $11.99 $1.55 87.1%
2017 1,693,823 57,486,017 2,235,138 128,399 $19,294,284 $16,451,076 $11.39 $1.68 85.3%
2016 1,629,680 57,545,251 2,228,266 118,849 $18,876,751 $16,396,633 $11.58 $1.52 86.9%
2015 1,584,461 0 2,211,697 118,012 $18,529,732 $15,598,875 $11.69 $1.85 84.2%