Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority

Bus at Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority

Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority carried 364,892 bus boardings in FY2025 at $14.04 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Bus Florence, SC
FY2025 boardings
364.9K
+6.7% vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$14.04
-3% nationwide $8.57
Subsidy per ride
$13.02
+5.7% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
7.3%
-50.9% nationwide 10.4%
Passenger miles
7.18M
average trip 19.68 miles
Operating cost
$5.12M
Vehicles in service
29
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
6.4
57K 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
Directly operated 364,892 7,179,685 57,014 $5,124,556 $14.04 $13.02 7.3% 29

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 Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2025 364,892 7,179,685 1,063,359 57,014 $5,124,556 $375,274 $14.04 $13.02 7.3%
2024 342,022 0 1,015,210 54,907 $4,952,001 $738,989 $14.48 $12.32 14.9%
2023 296,011 — 914,441 50,222 $3,848,486 $251,252 $13.00 $12.15 6.5%
2022 240,358 — 795,709 45,630 $3,305,672 $201,576 $13.75 $12.91 6.1%
2021 214,730 — 733,165 42,131 $3,908,731 $176,152 $18.20 $17.38 4.5%
2020 272,553 — 606,609 33,873 $3,206,881 $223,059 $11.77 $10.95 7%
2019 249,964 — 542,210 32,224 $2,712,827 $275,247 $10.85 $9.75 10.1%
2018 249,030 — 548,967 33,068 $2,574,406 $331,191 $10.34 $9.01 12.9%
2017 237,482 — 512,066 30,524 $2,564,217 $352,779 $10.80 $9.31 13.8%
2016 242,182 — 497,947 33,379 $2,191,150 $356,635 $9.05 $7.57 16.3%
2015 239,279 — 509,864 32,305 $1,456,377 $371,321 $6.09 $4.53 25.5%