Public Bus Transportation
Demand Response at Public Bus Transportation
Public Bus Transportation carried 46,832 demand response boardings in FY2025 at $38.58 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.
Demand Response
Macon, GA
FY2025 boardings
46.8K
-1.8%
vs FY2024
Cost per ride
$38.58
+5.2%
nationwide $52.35
Subsidy per ride
$35.46
+8.1%
operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
8.1%
-22.9%
nationwide 6.7%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.81M
Vehicles in service
11
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
1.69
27.8K hours operated
Ridership
Monthly data through January 2014.
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 | 46,832 | — | 27,771 | $1,806,636 | $38.58 | $35.46 | 8.1% | 11 |
Full series
Every year Public Bus Transportation reported this service.
| Year | Boardings | Passenger miles | Revenue miles | Revenue hours | Operating cost | Fares | Cost / ride | Subsidy / ride | Fare recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46,832 | — | 392,888 | 27,771 | $1,806,636 | $146,029 | $38.58 | $35.46 | 8.1% |
| 2024 | 47,710 | — | 429,855 | 30,207 | $1,748,797 | $183,281 | $36.65 | $32.81 | 10.5% |
| 2023 | 46,618 | — | 431,523 | 32,110 | $1,660,767 | $110,648 | $35.63 | $33.25 | 6.7% |
| 2022 | 42,513 | — | 346,361 | 28,442 | $999,679 | $79,695 | $23.51 | $21.64 | 8% |
| 2021 | 29,960 | — | 277,705 | 26,117 | $898,493 | $64,087 | $29.99 | $27.85 | 7.1% |
| 2020 | 32,577 | — | 271,468 | 21,095 | $774,125 | $61,606 | $23.76 | $21.87 | 8% |
| 2019 | 33,226 | — | 291,758 | 19,871 | $677,438 | $66,279 | $20.39 | $18.39 | 9.8% |
| 2018 | 33,202 | — | 268,452 | 19,635 | $633,932 | $66,790 | $19.09 | $17.08 | 10.5% |
| 2017 | 31,790 | — | 253,843 | 17,232 | $522,609 | $61,483 | $16.44 | $14.51 | 11.8% |
| 2016 | 27,894 | — | 297,215 | 20,499 | $593,438 | $65,014 | $21.27 | $18.94 | 11% |
| 2015 | 27,155 | — | 313,077 | 19,088 | $751,912 | $65,253 | $27.69 | $25.29 | 8.7% |