Livingston Essential Transportation Service

Demand Response at Livingston Essential Transportation Service

Livingston Essential Transportation Service carried 155,575 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $34.42 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Howell, MI
FY2025 boardings
155.6K
+3.8% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$34.42
-0.8% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$31.82
+2.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
7.5%
-29.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$5.36M
Vehicles in service
29
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
3.02
51.6K 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 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 155,575 — 51,588 $5,355,266 $34.42 $31.82 7.5% 29

Full series

Every year Livingston Essential Transportation Service reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 155,575 — 1,238,602 51,588 $5,355,266 $404,172 $34.42 $31.82 7.5%
2024 149,951 — 1,256,130 51,605 $5,200,961 $553,568 $34.68 $30.99 10.6%
2023 128,639 — 1,142,233 47,466 $4,606,183 $434,001 $35.81 $32.43 9.4%
2022 118,880 — 1,063,846 41,038 $4,248,126 $320,404 $35.73 $33.04 7.5%
2021 82,852 — 751,280 33,516 $5,079,254 $203,556 $61.31 $58.85 4%
2020 61,383 — 614,591 30,409 $3,472,178 $95,939 $56.57 $55.00 2.8%
2019 148,448 — 924,327 47,410 $3,539,822 $330,411 $23.85 $21.62 9.3%
2018 145,556 — 871,082 46,918 $3,361,001 $281,501 $23.09 $21.16 8.4%
2017 142,228 — 726,704 40,012 $2,372,456 $313,045 $16.68 $14.48 13.2%
2016 150,977 — 780,147 38,909 $2,336,797 $332,426 $15.48 $13.28 14.2%
2015 150,284 — 742,136 38,861 $2,286,642 $331,266 $15.22 $13.01 14.5%