Redding Area Bus Authority

Demand Response at Redding Area Bus Authority

Redding Area Bus Authority carried 25,358 demand response boardings in FY2024 at $67.59 per ride. Ten years of National Transit Database figures for this service, with safety, reliability and the national comparison.

Demand Response Redding, CA
← All of Redding Area Bus Authority
FY2024 boardings
25.4K
-7.9% vs FY2023
Cost per ride
$67.59
+20.2% nationwide $50.62
Subsidy per ride
$63.87
+20% operating cost less fares
Fare recovery
5.5%
+2.8% nationwide 6.8%
Passenger miles
—
average trip — miles
Operating cost
$1.71M
Vehicles in service
8
at maximum service
Rides per revenue hour
2.48
10.2K hours operated

Ridership

Monthly data through July 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, FY2024

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 25,358 — 10,238 $1,714,010 $67.59 $63.87 5.5% 8

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 Redding Area Bus Authority reported this service.

Year Boardings Passenger miles Revenue miles Revenue hours Operating cost Fares Cost / ride Subsidy / ride Fare recovery
2024 25,358 — 169,500 10,238 $1,714,010 $94,480 $67.59 $63.87 5.5%
2023 27,546 — 166,262 9,970 $1,548,702 $83,054 $56.22 $53.21 5.4%
2022 23,775 185,010 162,140 9,245 $1,263,423 $76,173 $53.14 $49.94 6%
2021 15,314 97,419 117,559 6,718 $967,267 $54,049 $63.16 $59.63 5.6%
2020 32,469 219,923 199,892 11,950 $1,363,544 $90,265 $42.00 $39.22 6.6%
2019 49,169 395,714 268,782 15,739 $1,584,926 $150,225 $32.23 $29.18 9.5%
2018 52,821 471,113 294,282 16,232 $1,611,600 $161,296 $30.51 $27.46 10%
2017 54,395 482,146 300,213 16,405 $1,537,815 $177,245 $28.27 $25.01 11.5%
2016 52,744 478,039 302,227 17,169 $1,556,079 $178,959 $29.50 $26.11 11.5%
2015 52,158 442,502 298,360 16,824 $1,501,565 $167,751 $28.79 $25.57 11.2%