Nebraska Department of Transportation

Vanpool at Nebraska Department of Transportation

Nebraska Department of Transportation carried 23,600 vanpool boardings in FY2025 at $13.14 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Vanpool Lincoln, NE
FY2025 boardings
23.6K
-53.6% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$13.14
+55.8% nationwide $8.07
Subsidy per ride
$1.01
+181.9% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
92.3%
-19.5% nationwide 73.2%
Passenger miles
1.12M
average trip 47.57 miles
Operating cost
$310.1K
Vehicles in service
16
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
4.09
5.8K 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 vanpool 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 23,600 1,122,537 5,770 $310,139 $13.14 $1.01 92.3% 16

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 Nebraska Department of Transportation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 23,600 1,122,537 275,770 5,770 $310,139 $286,285 $13.14 $1.01 92.3%
2024 50,870 2,164,299 524,478 10,926 $429,012 $491,784 $8.43 $-1.23 114.6%
2023 77,826 3,266,503 716,546 15,257 $481,652 $666,748 $6.19 $-2.38 138.4%
2022 96,498 4,245,642 979,428 20,044 $538,169 $654,811 $5.58 $-1.21 121.7%
2021 92,442 4,303,074 1,003,639 19,252 $435,546 $513,133 $4.71 $-0.84 117.8%
2020 98,246 — 897,949 21,090 $409,914 $509,258 $4.17 $-1.01 124.2%
2019 29,994 — 158,530 3,169 $81,191 $96,387 $2.71 $-0.51 118.7%
2018 7,560 — 44,531 784 $15,591 $18,964 $2.06 $-0.45 121.6%
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2016 — — — — — — — — —
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