Mecosta Osceola Transit Authority

Demand Response at Mecosta Osceola Transit Authority

Mecosta Osceola Transit Authority carried 29,380 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $73.62 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Big Rapids, MI
FY2024 boardings
29.4K
+39.1% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$73.62
-4.4% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$71.45
-5.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2.9%
+77.5% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$2.16M
Vehicles in service
18
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.02
28.9K 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, 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 29,380 28,876 $2,162,835 $73.62 $71.45 2.9% 18

Full series

Every year Mecosta Osceola Transit Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 29,380 549,742 28,876 $2,162,835 $63,660 $73.62 $71.45 2.9%
2023 21,128 313,260 17,178 $1,626,857 $26,975 $77.00 $75.72 1.7%
2022 20,782 295,152 15,671 $1,353,646 $28,188 $65.14 $63.78 2.1%
2021 19,801 327,812 15,783 $1,182,812 $28,394 $59.73 $58.30 2.4%
2020 12,650 185,956 8,091 $850,371 $18,247 $67.22 $65.78 2.1%
2019 29,048 221,812 9,101 $625,520 $39,508 $21.53 $20.17 6.3%
2018 49,397 280,193 11,655 $753,210 $259,447 $15.25 $10.00 34.4%
2017 53,361 313,094 13,258 $829,837 $257,135 $15.55 $10.73 31%
2016 56,177 333,529 14,587 $723,596 $282,325 $12.88 $7.86 39%
2015 55,489 275,151 12,229 $699,291 $267,788 $12.60 $7.78 38.3%