Painesville Laketran

Demand Response at Painesville Laketran

Painesville Laketran carried 295,797 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $72.18 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Painesville, OH
FY2025 boardings
295.8K
+7.2% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$72.18
+24.8% nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$64.56
+30% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
10.6%
-25.1% nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
2.74M
average trip 9.27 miles
Operating cost
$21.4M
Vehicles in service
85
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.19
135K 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
Directly operated 295,797 2,741,677 134,977 $21,350,807 $72.18 $64.56 10.6% 85

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 Painesville Laketran reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 295,797 2,741,677 2,822,024 134,977 $21,350,807 $2,255,323 $72.18 $64.56 10.6%
2024 275,895 2,517,654 2,480,558 142,382 $15,956,479 $2,251,292 $57.84 $49.68 14.1%
2023 252,387 2,247,914 2,162,208 122,941 $13,738,725 $1,863,942 $54.44 $47.05 13.6%
2022 222,172 2,049,454 1,895,678 104,383 $11,096,144 $1,673,272 $49.94 $42.41 15.1%
2021 193,576 1,812,064 1,869,755 106,556 $11,140,315 $1,522,606 $57.55 $49.68 13.7%
2020 158,796 1,442,778 1,657,414 109,152 $11,195,459 $724,859 $70.50 $65.94 6.5%
2019 274,177 2,603,432 2,317,833 132,525 $10,401,395 $505,006 $37.94 $36.09 4.9%
2018 271,003 2,552,808 2,297,946 132,177 $10,138,610 $507,328 $37.41 $35.54 5%
2017 264,102 2,562,855 2,331,449 126,974 $8,601,707 $512,975 $32.57 $30.63 6%
2016 263,591 2,589,199 2,322,111 127,328 $8,740,829 $568,121 $33.16 $31.01 6.5%
2015 246,902 2,433,535 2,127,909 115,493 $8,387,917 $546,822 $33.97 $31.76 6.5%