Mountain Mobility

Bus at Mountain Mobility

Mountain Mobility carried 28,948 bus boardings in FY2025 at $39.43 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Asheville, NC
FY2025 boardings
28.9K
-12.1% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$39.43
+16.5% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
—
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
—
nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
385.1K
average trip 13.3 miles
Operating cost
$1.14M
Vehicles in service
3
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.41
6.6K 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 bus 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 28,948 385,109 6,568 $1,141,299 $39.43 — — 3

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 Mobility reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 28,948 385,109 114,375 6,568 $1,141,299 — $39.43 — —
2024 32,936 431,024 128,847 7,699 $1,114,277 — $33.83 — —
2023 27,155 363,648 131,131 7,834 $856,998 — $31.56 — —
2022 20,473 284,054 129,400 7,747 $660,350 — $32.25 — —
2021 22,005 303,137 135,646 7,819 $817,723 — $37.16 — —
2020 29,393 396,470 137,607 7,672 $804,801 — $27.38 — —
2019 29,724 390,153 137,342 7,593 $701,507 $318 $23.60 $23.59 0%
2018 22,855 315,558 137,619 7,542 $561,680 $11,324 $24.58 $24.08 2%
2017 24,236 327,574 139,382 7,580 $538,958 $12,006 $22.24 $21.74 2.2%
2016 27,073 358,812 138,959 7,466 $582,994 $13,505 $21.53 $21.04 2.3%
2015 28,472 386,076 138,739 7,407 $597,647 $14,180 $20.99 $20.49 2.4%