Mountain Line

Demand Response at Mountain Line

Mountain Line carried 77,055 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $46.72 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Missoula, MT
FY2024 boardings
77.1K
+24.5% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$46.72
+20.4% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
311.4K
average trip 4.04 miles
Operating cost
$3.6M
Vehicles in service
15
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.66
29K 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 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 77,055 311,430 28,996 $3,600,269 $46.72 15

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 Mountain Line reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 77,055 311,430 344,470 28,996 $3,600,269 $46.72
2023 61,872 244,609 283,758 24,785 $2,400,395 $38.80
2022 45,331 166,576 233,413 21,893 $1,733,789 $38.25
2021 30,470 103,011 168,467 16,267 $1,152,567 $37.83
2020 37,987 131,686 193,731 17,825 $1,243,461 $32.73
2019 41,918 145,777 214,880 19,104 $1,120,368 $26.73
2018 31,777 107,697 165,998 14,986 $905,951 $28.51
2017 30,384 118,426 161,793 13,305 $878,153 $28.90
2016 26,813 105,643 142,667 11,392 $767,103 $28.61
2015 20,970 82,622 113,417 9,235 $626,533 $30,294 $29.88 $28.43 4.8%