New Jersey Transit Corporation

Hybrid Rail at New Jersey Transit Corporation

New Jersey Transit Corporation carried 1,635,580 hybrid rail boardings in FY2025 at $24.61 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Hybrid Rail Newark, NJ
FY2025 boardings
1.64M
-12% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$24.61
+25.7% nationwide $27.63
Subsidy per ride
$24.11
+26.2% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
2%
-15% nationwide 5%
Passenger miles
26.3M
average trip 16.09 miles
Operating cost
$40.2M
Vehicles in service
16
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
47.98
34.1K 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 hybrid rail 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 1,635,580 26,316,222 34,090 $40,248,328 $24.61 $24.11 2% 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 New Jersey Transit Corporation reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 1,635,580 26,316,222 862,777 34,090 $40,248,328 $806,936 $24.61 $24.11 2%
2024 1,858,550 27,024,345 949,875 38,212 $36,376,336 $858,391 $19.57 $19.11 2.4%
2023 1,757,592 26,112,409 1,019,056 40,965 $37,020,457 $980,435 $21.06 $20.51 2.6%
2022 1,712,082 25,017,387 1,156,597 45,350 $34,862,160 $1,032,848 $20.36 $19.76 3%
2021 1,476,118 21,234,591 1,189,311 46,772 $32,865,522 $855,736 $22.26 $21.69 2.6%
2020 2,172,963 33,820,460 1,236,978 50,215 $32,290,473 $1,714,596 $14.86 $14.07 5.3%
2019 2,744,872 40,925,492 1,232,724 49,096 $34,607,780 $2,327,483 $12.61 $11.76 6.7%
2018 2,700,645 38,740,464 1,259,015 49,727 $32,279,287 $2,302,804 $11.95 $11.10 7.1%
2017 2,713,160 39,719,834 1,272,963 49,980 $30,796,596 $2,299,664 $11.35 $10.50 7.5%
2016 2,746,696 40,272,993 1,299,376 52,073 $31,765,627 $2,314,968 $11.57 $10.72 7.3%
2015 2,830,339 44,640,408 1,299,746 51,924 $36,239,690 $2,393,478 $12.80 $11.96 6.6%