Mountain Metropolitan Transit

Demand Response at Mountain Metropolitan Transit

Mountain Metropolitan Transit carried 123,842 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $60.85 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Colorado Springs, CO
FY2025 boardings
123.8K
+1.3% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$60.85
+2.1% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$58.53
+2.6% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
3.8%
-10.2% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
1.12M
average trip 9.01 miles
Operating cost
$7.54M
Vehicles in service
36
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.9
65K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through August 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, 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
Purchased transportation - taxi — — — — — — — —
Purchased transportation 123,842 1,115,564 65,015 $7,535,841 $60.85 $58.53 3.8% 36

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 Metropolitan Transit reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 123,842 1,115,564 997,125 65,015 $7,535,841 $287,183 $60.85 $58.53 3.8%
2024 122,214 1,085,017 985,566 66,480 $7,281,688 $308,859 $59.58 $57.05 4.2%
2023 117,501 959,278 929,226 62,734 $6,921,288 $271,414 $58.90 $56.59 3.9%
2022 107,107 943,077 867,194 56,215 $6,441,064 $288,605 $60.14 $57.44 4.5%
2021 93,415 830,175 602,894 51,145 $5,687,175 $264,069 $60.88 $58.05 4.6%
2020 75,153 612,167 486,413 45,462 $4,951,662 $197,823 $65.89 $63.26 4%
2019 154,621 1,495,161 944,692 74,002 $6,220,927 $392,023 $40.23 $37.70 6.3%
2018 217,541 1,866,392 1,340,883 94,016 $6,512,465 $680,499 $29.94 $26.81 10.4%
2017 205,434 1,795,163 1,375,596 98,999 $6,363,869 $500,293 $30.98 $28.54 7.9%
2016 202,879 1,869,785 1,359,709 99,941 $6,080,388 $425,405 $29.97 $27.87 7%
2015 214,479 2,082,812 1,371,991 99,742 $6,100,215 $518,077 $28.44 $26.03 8.5%