Las Vegas Monorail Company

Monorail / Automated Guideway at Las Vegas Monorail Company

Las Vegas Monorail Company carried 4,816,085 monorail / automated guideway boardings in FY2017 at $4.06 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Monorail / Automated Guideway Las Vegas, NV
FY2017 boardings
4.82M
-2.5% vs FY2016
Cost per ride
$4.06
+2.6% nationwide $3.94
Subsidy per ride
$-0.30
+21.1% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
107.5%
-2% nationwide 43.6%
Passenger miles
9.77M
average trip 2.03 miles
Operating cost
$19.6M
Vehicles in service
24
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
35.47
135.8K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through December 2017.

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 monorail / automated guideway 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, FY2017

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 4,816,085 9,770,328 135,788 $19,565,983 $4.06 $-0.30 107.5% 24

Safety and reliability

For this service alone.

Events by year

Complete calendar years only

Full series

Every year Las Vegas Monorail Company reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2017 4,816,085 9,770,328 1,824,260 135,788 $19,565,983 $21,030,920 $4.06 $-0.30 107.5%
2016 4,940,323 10,286,199 1,867,222 144,697 $19,571,168 $21,475,856 $3.96 $-0.39 109.7%
2015 5,082,158 9,964,849 1,766,718 147,978 $18,747,559 $22,066,456 $3.69 $-0.65 117.7%